Two specimens of marine algae from Micronesia, with one showing a round base and a branching, leafy structure, and the other a small cluster of similar algae with a round base.
Underwater scene with green encrusting algae, white coral, and various small marine organisms on a rock.

Colonial Climates

Preserved insect specimen with wings, identified as Teinobasis carolinensis, collected in Wena, Moen, Nantaku area on March 21, 1949, in the U.S. National Museum collection.
Close-up of a damselfly perched on a thin branch with a blurred green background.

Anti-Colonial Ecologies

Botanical pressed leaves and a plant collection label from the Yale Cima Expedition to Truk in 1947.
Close-up of green leaves and a flowering branch of a magnolia tree.

Performing MVPFAFF+

Select Publications

  • Smell and Taste in Theatre History: A Roundtable Series - Table One, 1500s-1800s

    Theatre Journal, 78.1 (2026).

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  • The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments

    Ed. B. Donaldson, Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies, Routledge, 2025.

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  • Navigating Home: Relations of Oceania Feminist Solidarity

    Amerasia Journal, 48.2 (2023)

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  • Of Monsters and Mothers: Affective Climates and Human-Nonhuman Sociality in Kathy Jetñil-Kijiner’s Dear Matafele Peinam

    The Contemporary Pacific, 32.2 (2020).

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Recent Awards

Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition, Office of Representative Susie Lee

2026

Barbara Streisand Environmental Justice Fellowship, UCLA

Mellon Foundation Humanities Grant, University of Utah

2025

Sustainable Campus Initiative Fund, University of Utah

2022

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