{"id":120810,"date":"2020-06-16T08:39:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:39:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=120810"},"modified":"2024-03-15T14:18:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-16T00:18:26","slug":"ethnic-studies-professor-honored","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2020\/06\/16\/ethnic-studies-professor-honored\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethnic studies professor Davianna P\u014dmaika\u02bbi McGregor honored"},"content":{"rendered":"Reading time: <\/span> 2<\/span> minutes<\/span><\/span>

\"Davianna<\/p>\n

The director of the Center for Oral History<\/a> at the University of Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at M\u0101noa has been recognized for her lifelong commitment to research, teaching and community service with an honorary doctorate from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada.<\/p>\n

Davianna P\u014dmaikaʻi<\/span> McGregor<\/strong>, an ethnic studies professor in the College of Social Sciences<\/a>, is one of 11 international winners in 2020 of the Honoris Causa Doctorate<\/a>, which recognizes people “who do remarkable and exemplary things” in Laval University\u2019s fields of endeavor.<\/p>\n

McGregor is a co-founder of the UH<\/abbr> M\u0101noa ethnic studies department, where she has been a faculty member since 1974. She was appointed director of the Center of Oral History in 2018.<\/p>\n

“I am deeply honored and also somewhat overwhelmed with the receipt of this doctorate from the most prestigious French-language university in Quebec,” said McGregor. “I am especially glad to have been invited to present lectures about my work with our resilient Kanaka ʻOiwi<\/span> communities.”<\/p>\n

Added College of Social Sciences Dean Denise Eby Konan<\/strong>, “I am personally thrilled by this well-deserved recognition for ‘Davi’—a faculty member who has had such a tremendous impact on the college, campus and community for so many decades. It is wonderfully appropriate in 2020 that she has earned this award as a co-founder of the ethnic studies department, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and on launching the Center for Oral History\u2019s archival project, “Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Life in the Time of COVID-19<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

More about McGregor<\/h2>\n

As noted by Laval University, McGregor has a long, respected history of “reconnecting her Indigenous people, the Kanaka ʻOiwi<\/span>, to ancestral lands, culture and sovereignty,” and has played an important role in the “reappropriation of cultural practices long distorted by tourism, and in training a new generation of academics who are reasserting long-suppressed Indigenous voices.”<\/p>\n

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McGregor\u2019s ethnic studies students pause for a photo after a day of trail work on Kahoʻolawe<\/span>.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

She was a steadfast campaigner for the restitution of the island of Kahoʻolawe<\/span>, which was used starting in the 1970s as a U.S. military firing range. Her peaceful approach and relentless efforts proved effective leadership, resulting in the Navy\u2019s cessation of bombing and return of the island to Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> government in 1994.<\/p>\n

In 2007, McGregor\u2019s UH<\/abbr> Press book, Na Kuaʻ\u0101ina<\/span>: Living Hawaiian Culture<\/a><\/em>, won the Kenneth W. Baldridge Prize for best book in any field of history written by a Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> resident between 2005–07, and was recognized by the Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> Book Publishers Association with a Poʻokela<\/span> honorable mention for excellence in Hawaiian culture.<\/p>\n

She holds a master\u2019s degree in Pacific Islands studies, and a doctorate in Hawaiian\/Pacific history. An awards presentation will be scheduled in Quebec at a later date.<\/p>\n

—By Lisa Shirota<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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