J. Kēhaulani Kauanui is an associate professor of anthropology and American studies at Wesleyan University, where she teaches U.S. racial formations, Native sovereignty politics, U.S. colonialism in the Pacific Islands, and nationalism & gender. She earned her Ph.D. in the program of History of Consciousness at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Kauanui is the author of, Hawaiian Blood: Colonialism and the Politics of Indigeneity and Sovereignty (Duke University Press, 2008). Her published essays appear in a variety of journals, including: Pacific Studies, Women’s Studies International Forum, The Contemporary Pacific, South Atlantic Quarterly, American Studies, Comparative American Studies, Political and Legal Anthropology Review, American Indian Quarterly, and Social Text. Currently, she is working on her second book titled, Thy Kingdom Come? – a critical study on gender and sexual politics vis-à-vis state-centered Hawaiian nationalism and the disavowal of indigeneity. She is also the producer and host of a radio program, “Indigenous Politics: From Native New England and Beyond,” on W.E.S.U., Middletown, CT, which is syndicated on five stations across seven states through the Pacifica-radio network. She was part of the founding steering committee for the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.