Monica
LaBriola
2023 Board of Regents Medal for Excellence in Teaching
History professor Monica LaBriola has worked to ensure that engaging yet challenging approaches to the strategic area Pacific studies are at the forefront of instructional excellence at Mānoa, as well as touching lives beyond the academic community. At public forums and conferences, she draws diverse cultural workers passionate about the Pacific region as well as academics. Her leadership, vision and guidance on the development of resources in this area is praised by a colleague who identifies her editorship of a series of volumes, Teaching Oceania, as having impacted teaching and learning across Hawai‘i, the Pacific, nationally and internationally. To date, two cohorts of Women in Pacific Studies (WiPS) initiated and led by Dr. LaBriola is lauded by colleagues and students for successfully supporting the education of the student community experiencing the least educational equity at UHM and across the UH system. A cohort member writes that: “Professor LaBriola acknowledges the complexity of the university and encourages us to continue in academia while also dreaming of alternatives to knowledge production and dissemination.”
2023 Faculty Awardees