Biography Biography Nestled between the Koʻolau and Waiʻanae mountain ranges, Wahiawā nourished me as a child while the malu of Kānehoalani and Keahiakahoe nurtured me in adulthood. It is where my deep love for my language, culture and ʻāina grew. Cradled between Lake Mendota and Monona, the settler names for the waterways of the Hoocąk, …
Biography Biography I am a second-year Ph.D. student focusing on mid-twentieth century US militarism in Korea. I am particularly interested in the sociopolitical life of everyday Koreans during the early Cold War period and what it can illuminate about the geopolitical stakes of citizen-subject making and militarized modernity. My general interests include racial formation, decolonial …
Biography My research interests explore the intersections of the Cold War, US empire, and decolonization in Congo-Kinshasa and Angola. More specifically, I am interested in the politics of nationalism, state formation, militarism, and the political economy of foreign intervention in Central and southern Africa. My MA thesis explores and recontextualizes the origins of the Mobutu …
I am a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Interested in the histories of women, gender, and law in the early United States, my work examines the social and legal history of abortion and the politics of reproduction in the nineteenth century. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in …
Biography Biography My research focuses on the role of the American Yiddish press as a semi-private space for “internal” conversation among Eastern European Jewish immigrants at the turn of the last century. Apart from research, I am passionate about Yiddish language pedagogy, the curation and translation of little-known Yiddish texts, setting Yiddish poetry to music, …
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