Maile Arvin

Maile Arvin (Native Hawaiian) is an assistant professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California, Riverside. Her research interests include Native feminist theories, settler colonialism, decolonization, and race, gender and science in Hawaiʻi and the broader Pacific. She is currently at work on a manuscript about the legacies of the social scientific construction of the Polynesian race as almost white. Her work has also been published in the journals American Quarterly, Native American and Indigenous Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Feminist Formations. She serves on the Critical Ethnic Studies Association’s working group and is a founding member of Hinemoana of Turtle Island, a Pacific Islander feminist group of activists, poets, and scholars who write the muliwai blog (morethantwominutes.wordpress.com).