June 13, 2024
Hiʻilei Hobart has been awarded the prestigious Samuel and Ronnie Heyman Prize, which recognizes exceptional scholarly publications or research by ladder faculty in the humanities who are untenured at the time of their work’s completion or publication.
Professor Hobart received this honor for her groundbreaking book, Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment. An expert in environmental and indigenous histories, she explores the history and politics of ice and cooling technologies in Hawai’i. Her work has also earned the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association Best First Book Prize and the Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award.