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Abstract: My dissertation, “Intimately Intertwined: Settler and Indigenous Communities, Filipino Women, and U.S.-Japanese Imperial Formations in the Philippines, 1903–1956,” uncovers the little-known history and legacy of Japanese settlements in the U.S. colonial Philippines. It highlights Filipino women and brings out multiple relationships among the two empires, the colony, Filipinas, Japanese settlers, and other diverse residents. […]

Abstract: Property rights are secure, and violence over land can be attenuated when the treatment and delineation of the property are consistent, stable, and interpreted similarly by each party. In the absence of a mutual understanding of property rights, land-use stability becomes strained as the area of contested land between two rival parties expands—when one […]

Description: American freedom is typically associated with the fight of the oppressed for a better world. But for centuries, whenever the federal government intervened on behalf of nonwhite people, many white Americans fought back in the name of freedom—their freedom to dominate others.  In Freedom’s Dominion, prizewinning historian Jefferson Cowie traces this complex saga by focusing on […]

Abstract: In this article, the authors examine the systemic nature of state violence and racial terror in the context of the Australian settler state and Indigenous deaths in custody. Drawing on Steve Martinot and Jared Sexton’s (2003) concept of a “double economy of terror,” the authors contend that police violence and Aboriginal deaths in custody […]

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Excerpt: Within enrollment management, the word “pipeline” is a metaphor used to describe the structures and procedures of a student’s educational journey between two institutions (Pitcher & Shahjahan, 2017). The process of moving through the enrollment pipeline is often facilitated byarticulation agreements—documents outlining course requirements as students transfer from a two-year to a four-year college […]

Abstract: The Haudenosaunee of the Grand River have received immense attention as objects of study by academics, but agents and systems of colonialism have been overlooked. As such, this thesis applies a settler colonial framework to the Grand River to examine how the interplay between individual settlers, corporations, and the colonial government unfolded. Because the […]

Description: Young countercultural back-to-the-land settlers flocked to northwestern California beginning in the 1960s, and by the 1970s, unregulated cannabis production proliferated on Indigenous lands. As of 2021, the California cannabis economy was valued at $3.5 billion. In Settler Cannabis, Kaitlin Reed demonstrates how this “green rush” is only the most recent example of settler colonial resource […]

Abstract: Now humanity has an urgent question regarding the development of Mars. For this, it is necessary to send settlers there, and provide for the possibility of ensuring their residence in a hostile environment for a long time. Planning missions to Mars is the first step toward the beginning of an era of interplanetary migration […]