Kēhaulani Vaughn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3629555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kēhaulani Vaughn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kēhaulani |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaughn |
| SIGNATURE | VAUGHN K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Utah |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3337-0473 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 9 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Sohcahtoa
A Riverside, California, schoolteacher taught the mnemonic sohchatoa to her high school mathematics class in the fall of 2021. The lesson plan included “playing Indian,” with a headdress, tomahawk chopping, and war whooping. She was previously featured in several yearbooks and the school’s social media accounts wearing her headdress. Although her performance went viral and ultimately led to her dismissal, how do we account for the lesson plan and…
Legacies from decolonizing methodologies
Purpose This study aims to reflect and honor Linda Smith and her seminal work Decolonizing Methodologies . Design/methodology/approach Reflecting on Linda Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples , I discuss my own application of Smith’s major contributions to my research, teaching- and community engaged work. I begin with my positionality and detail my journey as a Native Hawaiian teacher and researcher who has been in…
Archives of Dissent
On March 11, 2022, 'Ōlelo TV aired its last episode of First Friday: The Unauthorized News , which honored the life and accomplishments of Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask. Running intermittently for over thirty-five years, First Friday covered news and perspectives not discussed by local and mainstream media sources in Hawai'i. The show was initially formed in equal collaboration between John Witeck, Jo Scheder, Haunani-Kay Trask, and David Stannard and co…
The Slyly Reproductive Lessons of Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask’s theorizations of settler colonialism, Indigenous feminisms, and community-grounded political work produces scholars, thinkers, and activists, including many Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Her teachings and work with Ka Lāhui Hawai‘i emphasized the need to build relationalities among Indigenous communities. This essay builds on Trask’s critical interventions and theorizations of set…
Trans-Indigenous Education
Trans-Indigenous education encompasses spaces, practices, and programs that allow diverse histories, cultures, and experiences to be shared among diverse Indigenous students. Trans-Indigenous education attends to the interpersonal and spatial dimensions existing in higher education settings that center diverse Indigenous knowledges to build communities based on a shared consciousness. This article highlights the ways that American Indian/Alaska N…
Birthing Educational Pathways
As a daughter of Oceania residing in Turtle Island, I have birthed pathways within higher education that center = Pacific epistemes in curriculum and pedagogy. These spaces have assisted Pacific Islander and Indigenous students, among others, through expansive practices of kinship and mentorship that embody the praxes of Pacific feminisms. Drawing from Oceanic feminist concepts and praxes, I have created spaces that are grounded in relational eth…
(Re)centering Pacific Islanders in Trans-Pacific Studies
Unmasking the Essential Realities of Covid ‐19
Pacific Islanders in diaspora are disproportionately contracting COVID‐19, experience hospitalization and develop complications. In Utah, Pacific Islanders have the highest contraction rate in the state. Pacific Islanders constitute only 2% of the state's population, but represent 4% of the those infected with COVID‐19, begging the question how we might explain the high rates of contraction? As community engaged scholars and practitioners, we off…
The Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States
UCLA's location in Los Angeles situates it within a diasporic Pacific Islander (PI) community comprised mostly of Chamorros, Fijians, Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Tongans; many of these populations represent the largest communities of these groups outside of Oceania.1 Some have even argued that this population increase makes America's west coast a de facto extension of Oceania.2 Chief among myriad explanations for this diasporic community is ec…
Archives of Dissent
On March 11, 2022, 'Ōlelo TV aired its last episode of First Friday: The Unauthorized News , which honored the life and accomplishments of Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask. Running intermittently for over thirty-five years, First Friday covered news and perspectives not discussed by local and mainstream media sources in Hawai'i. The show was initially formed in equal collaboration between John Witeck, Jo Scheder, Haunani-Kay Trask, and David Stannard and co…
The Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States
UCLA's location in Los Angeles situates it within a diasporic Pacific Islander (PI) community comprised mostly of Chamorros, Fijians, Native Hawaiians, Samoans, and Tongans; many of these populations represent the largest communities of these groups outside of Oceania.1 Some have even argued that this population increase makes America's west coast a de facto extension of Oceania.2 Chief among myriad explanations for this diasporic community is ec…
Unmasking the Essential Realities of Covid ‐19
Pacific Islanders in diaspora are disproportionately contracting COVID‐19, experience hospitalization and develop complications. In Utah, Pacific Islanders have the highest contraction rate in the state. Pacific Islanders constitute only 2% of the state's population, but represent 4% of the those infected with COVID‐19, begging the question how we might explain the high rates of contraction? As community engaged scholars and practitioners, we off…
Trans-Indigenous Education
Trans-Indigenous education encompasses spaces, practices, and programs that allow diverse histories, cultures, and experiences to be shared among diverse Indigenous students. Trans-Indigenous education attends to the interpersonal and spatial dimensions existing in higher education settings that center diverse Indigenous knowledges to build communities based on a shared consciousness. This article highlights the ways that American Indian/Alaska N…
Birthing Educational Pathways
As a daughter of Oceania residing in Turtle Island, I have birthed pathways within higher education that center = Pacific epistemes in curriculum and pedagogy. These spaces have assisted Pacific Islander and Indigenous students, among others, through expansive practices of kinship and mentorship that embody the praxes of Pacific feminisms. Drawing from Oceanic feminist concepts and praxes, I have created spaces that are grounded in relational eth…
(Re)centering Pacific Islanders in Trans-Pacific Studies
The Slyly Reproductive Lessons of Haunani-Kay Trask
Haunani-Kay Trask’s theorizations of settler colonialism, Indigenous feminisms, and community-grounded political work produces scholars, thinkers, and activists, including many Hawaiians, other Pacific Islanders, and Indigenous peoples of Turtle Island. Her teachings and work with Ka Lāhui Hawai‘i emphasized the need to build relationalities among Indigenous communities. This essay builds on Trask’s critical interventions and theorizations of set…
Legacies from decolonizing methodologies
Purpose This study aims to reflect and honor Linda Smith and her seminal work Decolonizing Methodologies . Design/methodology/approach Reflecting on Linda Smith’s Decolonizing Methodologies: Research and Indigenous Peoples , I discuss my own application of Smith’s major contributions to my research, teaching- and community engaged work. I begin with my positionality and detail my journey as a Native Hawaiian teacher and researcher who has been in…
Archives of Dissent
On March 11, 2022, 'Ōlelo TV aired its last episode of First Friday: The Unauthorized News , which honored the life and accomplishments of Dr. Haunani-Kay Trask. Running intermittently for over thirty-five years, First Friday covered news and perspectives not discussed by local and mainstream media sources in Hawai'i. The show was initially formed in equal collaboration between John Witeck, Jo Scheder, Haunani-Kay Trask, and David Stannard and co…
Sohcahtoa
A Riverside, California, schoolteacher taught the mnemonic sohchatoa to her high school mathematics class in the fall of 2021. The lesson plan included “playing Indian,” with a headdress, tomahawk chopping, and war whooping. She was previously featured in several yearbooks and the school’s social media accounts wearing her headdress. Although her performance went viral and ultimately led to her dismissal, how do we account for the lesson plan and…
Sociology (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Pacific islanders (5 works) · Indigenous (4 works) · Anthropology (3 works) · Demography (3 works) · Diaspora (3 works) · Ethnic group (3 works) · Gender Studies (3 works)