Catherine Fuentes, a faculty member in the Anthropology Department in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences, recently was awarded the Paul Farmer Global Citizenship Award from the Center for a Public Anthropology.
In presenting the award, Robert Borofsky, the center’s director and professor of anthropology at Hawaii Pacific University, said Fuentes was being recognized for how “she takes classroom knowledge and applies it to real world challenges, thereby encouraging students to be responsible global citizens. In actively addressing important ethical concerns within anthropology, Professor Fuentes is providing students with the thinking and writing skills needed for active citizenship.”
The Famer Global Citizenship Award is named for one of the world’s leading medical humanitarians and anthropologists of the 21st center, according to Borofsky.