HALENA KAPUNI-REYNOLDS

Associate Curator
National Museum of the American Indian

Halena Kapuni-Reynolds is the Associate Curator of Native Hawaiian History & Culture at the National Museum of the American Indian and works remotely from Hilo, Hawai‘i. He also serves on the board of the Hawai‘i Council for the Humanities (HCH) and is actively participating in the development of the Pacific Islands Humanities Network, an NEH funded initiative to encourage collaboration and knowledge-sharing across the NEH’s four affiliate humanities councils in the Pacific. Halena is completing his Ph.D. in American Studies at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa; his dissertation is “Ku‘u Home ‘O Keaukaha: He Lei Mo‘olelo No Ka ‘Āina Aloha” (My Home, Keaukaha: A Lei of Stories for Beloved Lands), an interdisciplinary project focused on the Hawaiian Home Land community of Keaukaha on the island of Hawai‘i, where he was raised and educated.