Established in 2007, the University of Hawaiʻi Board of Regents (BOR) has approved the establishment of the Gladys Kamakakūokalani ʻAinoa Brandt Endowed Chair at UH Mānoa. The position was created from a commitment of nearly $1.1 million from the Gladys ʻAinoa Brandt Estate.

The gift was made to establish an endowed chair in comparative Polynesian studies at the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the UH Mānoa Hawai‘inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge to focus and maximize the center‘s interchanges with visiting scholars. The endowed chair will greatly enhance research at the center, attract students and scholars from throughout Polynesia, and encourage positive dialogues between academic disciplines, the university and the wider community.

A University of Hawaiʻi alumna, Brandt was an educator and administrator for more than 40 years, and was the first woman principal of a high school in the Territory of Hawaiʻi. The UH BOR voted to name the UH Mānoa Center for Hawaiian Studies in her honor in 2001, with a rededication ceremony held in March 2002, which Brandt was able to attend before she passed away on January 15, 2003.

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The Gladys Brandt Chair under Professor, Lilikalā Kameʻeleihiwa from (date - date)

Polynesian ancestral knowledge webinar series.  To view the 19 episodes

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The Gladys Brandt Chair is currently under Assistant Professor, Kawēlau Wright.