Alika Bourgette

Alika Bourgette is a Kanaka ʻŌiwi (Native Hawaiian) historian and scholar of Native American and Indigenous Studies from Āliamanu, Oʻahu. He is an Assistant Professor of History at Duke University. His forthcoming book, tentatively titled Refuge and Abundance, documents how Native Hawaiians of multiple genders developed expanded kin and food networks from mountains to sea to braid a constellation of care and anti-eviction efforts across Honolulu in the early twentieth century. In his community work, he has participated in Tribal Canoe Journeys in the Salish Sea with the Carvers' Camp and č̓away̓altxʷ ʔiišəd (Shellhouse) Canoe Families. In 2024-2025, Alika served as a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral fellow in the UCLA Department of Asian American Studies.