J. Kēhaulani Kauanui (Kanaka Maoli) is a scholar-activist of indigeneity, race, sovereignty, gender, sexuality, and decolonization who situates her work in critical Indigenous studies, settler colonial studies, and anarchist studies. She is Eric and Wendy Schmidt Professor of Indigenous Studies, Professor of Anthropology in the Effron Center for the Study of America and the Department of Anthropology at Princeton University. Kauanui is the author of two monographs: Hawaiian Blood (DUP 2008) and Paradoxes of Hawaiian Sovereignty (DUP 2018), and is the editor of Speaking of Indigenous Politics: Conversations with Activists, Scholars, and Tribal Leaders (UMP 2018). She recently guest-edited a special issue of Native American and Indigenous Studies focused on “Enduring Palestine: Critical Interventions” (Spring 2025). She is one of the six co-founders of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association (2008). Kauanui serves on the editorial board of Cultural Anthropology.