Davianna McGregor - Obama Presidency Oral History

Project Director, Center for Oral History

Davianna McGregor

Professor Emerita of Ethnic Studies and Oral History, and Project Director for Center for Oral History at University of Hawaiʻi

Davianna McGregor is a historian of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific and a founding member of the Ethnic Studies Department at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Her work research and engagement has focused on the persistence of ancestral Hawaiian subsistence, cultural & spiritual customs, beliefs & practices in rural communities–Molokaʻi; Puna, Kaʻu & Waipiʻo on Hawaiʻi; Keʻanae-Wailuanui & Hāna on Maui and Waiahole-Waikane on Oʻahu. The continuity of Native Hawaiian governance of Hawaiʻi, and its re-establishment today, is another focus of her scholarship and responsibility.