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Sarah Kuaiwa
Sarah Kuaiwa is a third-year Ph.D. candidate at the Sainsbury Research Unit, University of East Anglia. Her dissertation looks at nineteenth-century fashion economics in the Hawaiian Kingdom (1800–50). She owns and operates Kuaola or Bust, a consulting firm that specializes in Hawaiian archival research and genealogy. She is also a researcher at the Kealakai Center for Pacific Strings. Kuaiwa completed her BA cum laude in art history and visual arts from Occidental College and her MA in history from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa with a focus in Hawaiian history. Her experience with art and material culture is credited to her previous work at the Autry National Center and Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.
Contact: Sainsbury Research Unit, Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park, Norwich NR4 7TJ, United Kingdom.