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Highlights
Education
Ph.D. in English with a Designated Emphasis in Native American Studies, University of California, Davis
M.A. in Liberal Studies with a concentration in Literature and Society, Georgetown University
B.A. in American Studies, Columbia University
Selected Publications
Edited Collections:
“Introduction: Transnational Nuclear Imperialisms,” with Anais Maurer. Journal of Transnational American Studies, vol. 11, no. 2, Winter 2020.
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles:
“Nuclear Normalizing and Kathy Jetn̄il-Kijiner’s ‘Dome Poem’,” Cold War Reformations, Amerasia, April 2022.
“Oceans, Radiations, and Monsters,” Interventions in Pacific Islands Studies and Trans-Pacific Studies, Critical Ethnic Studies, August 2022.
“Pacific Women’s Anti-nuclear Poetry: Centring Indigenous Knowledges,” with Anaïs Maurer, International Affairs, July 2022. Shortlisted for the International Affairs Centenary Prize.
“Decolonial Memory and Nuclear Migration in Albert Wendt’s Black Rainbow,” Modern Fiction Studies, vol. 66, no. 2, Summer 2020.
Book Chapters and Encyclopedia Entries:
“(Post)colonial Indigenous Anglophone Fiction of the Pacific Islands,” with Emma Ngakuravaru Powell. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, 2023.
“Climate Migration and Deranged Realism in Gun Island,” with Hsuan L. Hsu. Approaches to Teaching Migration in Literature, Film and Media. Yumna Siddiqi & Masha Salazkina, eds., MLA, forthcoming.
“Risk and Resistance at Pōhakuloa,” Empire and Environment: Confronting Ecological Ruin in Asia-Pacific and the Americas, Rina Garcia Chua, Heidi Hong, Jeffrey Santa Ana, and Xiaojing Zhou, eds., University of Michigan Press, 2022.
“Nuclear Geographies and Nuclear Issues,” with Becky Alexis-Martin et al, The International Encyclopedia of Geography: People, the Earth, Environment, and Technology, Wiley-Blackwell, 2020.
"Hau'ofa, Epeli." The Encyclopedia of Postcolonial Studies. Ray, Sangeeta, Henry Schwarz, José Luis Villacañas Berlanga, Alberto Moreiras and April Shemak, eds. Blackwell Publishing, 2016.
Public Facing Work:
“Opinion: What Nolan’s ‘Oppenheimer’ leaves out of the story,” alt. title “Oppenheimer’s Not Your Daddy,” with Aanchal Sarf. CNN Opinion, August 11, 2023.
“This Steinlager Ad Distorts the Truth about Anti-Nuclear Protest in the Pacific,” with Sylvia Frain. The Spinoff, Dec. 16, 2020.
“Plantation Housing Isn’t the Answer to Homelessness in Hawaiʻi,” with Leanne Day. Edge Effects, April 18, 2019.
Reviews:
Review, “Cooling the Tropics: Ice, Indigeneity, and Hawaiian Refreshment.” H-Environment Roundtable Reviews, vol. 14, no. 5, 2024.
Review, "Archipelagic American Studies." The Contemporary Pacific, vol. 30, no. 2, 2018.
Review, "Iep Jaltok: Poems from a Marshallese Daughter." Transmotion, vol. 4, no. 1, 2018.
Fellowships & Awards
ACLS Fellow 2023-2024
Stephen Botein Teaching Prize, Harvard University 2022-2023
Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Harvard University 2021-2022
Provostial Fund for Arts and Humanities, Harvard University 2022
Certificate of Teaching Excellence, Harvard University 2020-2021
Mellon/ACLS Dissertation Completion Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies 2019-2020
Mellon Public Scholars Fellow, UC Davis Humanities Institute 2019
Professors for the Future Fellow, Graduate Studies, UC Davis 2018-2019
Margrit Mondavi Graduate Fellow, UC Davis Humanities Institute 2018
