Catherine ʻĪmaikalani Ulep

Catherine ʻĪmaikalani Ulep

Assistant Professor of History

Catherine ʻĪmaikalani Ulep is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) historian of Indigenous Histories of the North American West. Her work centers on dynamic Indigenous peoples and their histories. She most enjoys teaching and researching sites of Indigenous gendered labor, material culture, and cross-cultural interactions. Her research focuses on Native Hawaiian women and their barter of sexual services for Euro-American goods at the turn of the nineteenth century.