CORE FACULTY
David E. Stannard David E. Stannard received his B.A. degree from San Francisco State University in 1971 and his Ph.D. from Yale University in 1975. His teaching and research interests include American social, cultural, and intellectual history; theory and method in history and social science; the demographic and environmental impacts of Western imperialism; comparative analyses of genocide; and race, racism, and multicultural studies.In addition to teaching at the University of Hawai`i (where he has received the Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching) he has taught at Yale and, as a visiting professor, at Stanford University and the University of Colorado at Boulder. His books include The Puritan Way of Death: A Study in Religion, Culture and Social Change (Oxford), Shrinking History: On Freud and the Failure of Psychohistory (Oxford), Before the Horror: The Population of Hawai`i on the Eve of Western Contact (University of Hawai`i Press), American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World (Oxford), and Honor Killing: How the Infamous "Massie Affair" Transformed Hawaii (Viking). He also has edited a book, Death in America (University of Pennsylvania Press), and has published numerous articles in The American Historical Review, American Quarterly, The Journal of American Studies, and other scholarly journals and anthologies, as well as in such general readership publications as The Nation, The New Republic, Cultural Survival Quarterly, and The Chronicle of Higher Education. Publications of his have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Italian, Turkish, and Japanese.
Professor Stannard has been awarded Rockefeller, Guggenheim, and American Council of Learned Societies research fellowships and he has lectured in Asia, Europe, and throughout the United States. The producer and moderator of a local public affairs television show for many years, he works with various environmental and political organizations and is interviewed regularly for radio, television, and documentary film projects. In 2005 he served as principal consultant and on-air commentator for the PBS American Experience documentary, "The Massie Affair." He has been elected twice to the Board of Directors of the University of Hawai`i Professional Assembly (the UH faculty union) and has chaired its collective bargaining committee.
