Lecture: Territorial Discontent

Kristin’s first book, Territorial Discontent: CHamorus, Filipinos, and the Making of US Empire on Guåhan has been published by the University of North Carolina Press and the University of Guam Press. A one-hundred year history of the island of Guåhan, this book charts how Indigenous CHamorus and Filipinos navigated, negotiated, and resisted different forms of US colonialism and militarism in the Pacific. Their work has been
published in Critical Ethnic Studies, and the edited collections, The Anticolonial Transnational, The SAGE Encyclopedia of Filipina/x/o American Studies, and the fourth volume of Explaining the History of American Foreign Relations. Their next research project, War Stories, Typhoon Tales is an ecological history of the Marianas Archipelago.

Kristin Oberiano is an assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University. Their research examines histories of race, indigeneity, US imperialism, and the environment in Guåhan and the Northern Mariana Islands.