{"id":58716,"date":"2017-04-11T16:18:14","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T02:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/?p=58716"},"modified":"2020-03-13T13:03:08","modified_gmt":"2020-03-13T23:03:08","slug":"uh-hilo-heritage-management-program-defend-theses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/2017\/04\/11\/uh-hilo-heritage-management-program-defend-theses\/","title":{"rendered":"First candidates in <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo heritage management program defend theses"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> 2<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minutes<\/span><\/span><figure id=\"attachment_58728\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-58728\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hilo-heritage-management-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"310\" class=\"size-full wp-image-58728\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hilo-heritage-management-logo.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/hilo-heritage-management-logo-210x260.jpg 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-58728\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graduate student Kal&#257; Mossman designed this logo concept for the program and others chipped in with drafting it. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/hmhilo\/photos\/a.952440611461602.1073741827.451211174917884\/1365792380126421\/?type=3&#038;theater\">Learn more about the logo.<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The first cohort of candidates in the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/catalog\/ma-heritage-management\">master of arts in heritage management program<\/a> at the <a href=\"https:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/\">University of <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> at Hilo<\/a> will be defending their theses this semester.<\/p>\n<p>Students in the heritage management program are training for heritage-related careers in government agencies, private-sector consulting firms, educational institutions, and various other organizations engaged in the interpretation, preservation and perpetuation of cultural heritage. Two examples of  such places are heritage centers and museums. The <abbr title=\"University of Hawaii\">UH<\/abbr> Hilo program emphasizes heritage training in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span> and the Pacific Islands but does so within the context of a global community.<\/p>\n<p>Despite dozens of similar MA programs around the globe, none of the major extant programs focus on the Pacific Islands. The Hilo program has several goals&#8212;to create a workforce of historic preservationists who are committed to the long-term management of Oceanic cultural resources, to increase the representation of descendant communities in leadership positions in heritage management and to assist community planners in more sensitive treatment of traditional cultural properties.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Related<\/strong>: A paper on the importance of the program, <a href=\"http:\/\/file.scirp.org\/pdf\/AA_2013072911404715.pdf\">&ldquo;Decolonizing Heritage Management in <span aria-label=\"Hawaii\">Â鶹´«Ã½<\/span>,&rdquo;<\/a> (<small><abbr>PDF<\/abbr><\/small>) by Peter Mills and Kathleen Kawelu<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Participants performed community based research in heritage management and developed their skills in archaeology, cultural impact assessment and collections management. The students prepared their thesis projects based on original field research and internships.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;In collaboration with the organization N&#257; K&#257;lai Wa&#699;a, I&#8217;ve spent the past two years creating a project exploring the past and contemporary uses and meanings of the navigational heiau, Ko&#699;a Heiau Holomoana in pursuit of its proper portrayal and preservation,&rdquo; says Mello in a Facebook post. <\/p>\n<p>For the theses defense schedule for <strong>Kal&#257; Mossman<\/strong>, <strong>Matthew Clark<\/strong>, <strong>Nicole Mello<\/strong>, <strong>Kalena Blakemore<\/strong>, <strong>Lokelani Brandt<\/strong> and <strong>Tamara Halliwell<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/04\/11\/first-cohort-of-candidates-in-uh-hilo-master-of-arts-in-heritage-management\/\">read the full article at <em><abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;<a href=\"http:\/\/hilo.hawaii.edu\/news\/stories\/2017\/04\/11\/first-cohort-of-candidates-in-uh-hilo-master-of-arts-in-heritage-management\/\"><em>From <abbr>UH<\/abbr> Hilo Stories<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8212;By Susan Enright<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graduates will be ready for heritage-related careers in the interpretation, preservation and perpetuation of cultural heritage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[14,907],"class_list":["post-58716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-news","tag-uh-hilo","tag-uh-hilo-stories","entry","has-media"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58716"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":113594,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58716\/revisions\/113594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hawaii.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}