Hawaiian Histories of Textuality: Graduate Writing and Methodological Genealogies in Hawai'i.

• In Event: AERA Research in Progress Roundtable Session One
  In Invited Roundtable: Research-in-Progress RT052 (Wednesday)

Abstract

Situated within a broader ʻŌiwi-informed mixed-methodology dissertation design, this research-in-progress presents a pilot study mapping doctoral dissertations (2000-2024) enacting ʻŌiwi and Indigenous methodologies at the University of Hawaiʻi and across the global ʻŌiwi diaspora. The study explores how dissertations carry forward Hawaiian intellectual genealogies through textual practices, including Hawaiian-language integration, genealogical framing, relational citation, and place-centered positioning. The pilot employs three analytic strands: bibliometric mapping and scoping review across approximately 20-30 dissertations, followed by qualitative close reading of selected exemplars. A preliminary coding framework, the ʻŌiwi Textual Practices Index (ʻŌTPI), is introduced as a proof-of-concept tool. This project aligns to AERAʻs 2026 theme by mapping and making visible the continuity of Hawaiian intellectual and educational genealogies within contemporary graduate scholarship.

Author

• Shayna Ashley, University of Hawaii - Manoa