List of University of Hawaii faculty

This article lists notable faculty of the University of Hawaii. Faculty who are also alumni are listed in bold font, with degree and year in parentheses.

Barbara Watson Andaya, scholar of history in Southeast Asia
Leonard Andaya, scholar of history in Southeast Asia
Koji Ariyoshi, newspaper editor and political activist; one of the Hawaii 7
Asa Baber, writer
Georg von Békésy, 1961 Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine
Derek Bickerton, linguist
Allyn Bromley, artist
Maqsudul Alam, did the first genome sequencing of jute, rubber & papaya. And also was the director of Genomics, Proteomics and Bioinformatics programs.
Kenneth Wayne Bushnell, visual artist
Glenn Cannon, actor
Hampton L. Carson, biologist
Wing-tsit Chan, philosopher
Irving Copi, philosopher
Alice G. Dewey, anthropologist
Milton Diamond, sex researcher
Leon Edel, author
Nina Etkin, ethnobotanist
Ben Finney (M.A. 1959), professor of anthropology; co-founder of the Polynesian Voyaging Society
Kevin Fitzgerald, former adjunct professor; celebrity veterinarian
Mary Jo Freshley, dancer
Helen Gilbert, artist^[1]
Louis Herman, cetacean researcher
David Ho, founder of the Bamboo Bike Project
Hope Jahren, Geochemistry, Geobiology
Reece Jones, geographer, Guggenheim Fellow
Lee Jong-Wook, Director-General of the WHO
Ralph Simpson Kuykendall, history professor
John Madey, physicist
William Meredith, poet
Rick Mills, professor and director of the glass art program
Gary Pak, writer, editor and professor of English
W. Wesley Peterson, 1999 Japan Prize winner for Information Technologies
R.J. Rummel, political scientist, democratic-peace theoretician
Shawna Yang Ryan, English professor
Susan Schultz, English professor
Michael J. Shapiro, political philosopher
William Allison Shimer, philosophy professor, first editor of The American Scholar literary journal
Maya Soetoro-Ng, professor/teacher
Steven M. Stanley, paleontologist and evolutionary biologist
Stephen Vargo, professor of marketing
Thornton Wilder, author (visiting professor)
Ryuzo Yanagimachi, geneticist
Tseng Yu-ho, artist, art historian