Hiʻilei Hobart

Hiʻilei Julia Kawehipuaakahaopulani Hobart (Kānaka Maoli) is an assistant professor of Native and Indigenous Studies at Yale University. An interdisciplinary scholar, she researches and teaches on issues of settler colonialism, environment, and Indigenous sovereignty. She is the author of Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment (Duke University Press, 2022).