Guest Lecture: “Reggae Relations: Indigenous and Black Confluences in Hawai’i”
Sunaina Keonaona Kale [Kanaka Maoli]
Sunaina Keonaona Kale [Kanaka Maoli] is a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Native American Studies, UC Davis. She holds a PhD in ethnomusicology from UC Santa Barbara and received her bachelor’s degree in music from UC Davis in 2014. Kale researches reggae in Hawai’i, focusing on how the music relates to Native Hawaiian identity, both locally and globally. Her other research interests include the intersections of food sovereignty and music in Hawai’i. She is a former Charles Eastman Fellow at Dartmouth College (2020–22) and received the Robert Walser and Susan McClary Fellowship from the Society for American Music (2019). The event is co-sponsored by the Department of Native American Studies.
