Biography

Ellen-Rae Cachola received a PhD in Information Studies, specializing in Archival Studies, from the University of California Los Angeles.  She joined the UH Law Library as the Evening Supervisor and Archives Manager.  

Ellen-Rae was named a Rare Book School-Mellon Cultural Heritage Fellow for 2020-2022. At the Law Library, she has led the preservation and curation of archival collections on people, such as the late Professor Jon Van Dyke and Chief Justice William S. Richardson; events such as the Pacific Island Legal Institute; and issues such as Race, Labor, & Indigeneity. Ellen-Rae served as the Chair of the UH Fulfillment Committee from 2022-2023; she was elected as Vice President/President Elect of the Hawaiʻi Library Association for 2025-2026.

Ellen-Rae also lectures for the Department of Ethnic Studies, at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa.

Publications

• Cachola, Ellen-Rae. “Public Awareness and Outreach: Framing Archival Events to Bring Different Communities Together.” In Advocating for Ourselves: Working in Underrepresented Multicultural Archives and Libraries.  PubPub: Rare Book School-Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship for Diversity, Inclusion, and Cultural Heritage, 2022. 
• Cachola, Ellen-Rae. “Hxstoriography of Filipina/x in Hawaiʻi: Our Movements, Archives, and Memories,” in Alon: Journal for Filipinx American and Diasporic Studies, University of California Davis 2(3) (2022).
• Cachola, E., T. Grandinetti & A. Yamashiro. (2019). “Demilitarizing Hawaiʻi’s Multiethnic Solidarity: Decolonizing Settler Histories and Learning Our Responsibilities to ʻĀina,” in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 5 (1-2), 68-98. 
• Cachola, E. (2019) “Beneath the Touristic Sheen of Waikīkī.”  In DeTours: A Decolonial Guide to Hawaiʻi. Duke University Press, 283-292. 
• Huffman, B. and Cachola, E. (2016). Keep off the Moors: The road to data archival storage. Strategic Librarian, 30, 1-4
• Cachola, E. (2015) “Reading the Landscape of U.S. Settler Colonialism in the Southern Coast of O’ahu,” Feral Feminisms (4).
• Wong, V., Cachola, E., Ikeda, T. and Ibanez, F. (2014) “Archives (Re)Imagined Elsewhere: Asian American community-based archival organizations.” Through the Archival Looking Glass: A Reader on Diversity & Inclusion, Eds. Mary A. Caldera and Kathryn Neal. Society of American Archivist Press: Chicago.
• Cachola, E. (2011) “Book Review: Archival Anxiety by Richard Cox,” InterActions: UCLA Journal of Education and Information Studies.
• Cachola, E., Kirk, G., Natividad, L., Reinat-Pumarejo, M. (2010). “Resistance, Resilience and Respect for Human Rights: Women Working Across Borders for Peace and Genuine Security,” Peace Review: A Journal of Social Justice (22): 164-170.
• Cachola, E., Kirk, G., Festejo, L., Fukushima, A. and Perez, S. (2008). Gender and U.S. Bases in the Asia-Pacific. Foreign Policy in Focus.