Abstract: European settlers from Algeria (pieds-noirs) reconstructed Algeria after 1962 as a site of memory and imagined spatial continuity following the collapse of the French colonial project. Moving beyond narratives of repatriation and domestic integration, the article situates the pied-noir experience within MENA studies by treating Algeria as a postcolonial space whose afterlives continued to […]

Excerpt: Sidney Xu Lu’s Collaborative Settler Colonialism: Japanese Migration to Brazil in the Age of Empires (University of California Press, 2025) makes a significant contribution to settler colonial studies by expanding the cast and by making settler colonialism to be of connections and collaborations, oftentimes fragile, imperfect, and contested. In Lu’s analysis we get to read of […]

Abstract: Much of settler colonial theory and studies in Canada has focused on the dominant British settler colonial power, with an emerging spotlight on Quebec. Little attention has been paid to French-Canadian settler colonialism in French-Canadian minority provinces such as Ontario. This research aims to make visible this gap in attention and begin to fill […]

Excerpt: A new interdisciplinary field, which I am calling “Oaxacan studies,” has emerged and is offering important conceptual tools for thinking about Latinidad in local, transborder, and hemispheric contexts. While most of the Anglophone scholarship on Oaxaca has been produced by historians and anthropologists who are not native to the pueblos they write about, a […]

Abstract: For the entirety of their existence, the Colonies of Vancouver Island and British Columbia attempted to prevent entirely Indigenous peoples’ access to alcohol. Almost all historians who have worked in this period touch on the liquor issue, but none have set out to fully explain the means by which this control was enacted, and […]

Abstract: This paper examines how an Asian American family engages with waste through walking on Indigenous land in the Midwest United States. Drawing on six months of autoethnographic inquiry using the Learning in Places curriculum, I trace how a Chinese American mother and child encounter waste across Minnesota suburban wetlands, urban parkways, a Dakota sacred […]

Abstract: This dissertation examines the history of a small colonization reserve to ask how prairie land becomes known and accepted primarily as settler agricultural space even if vaguely understood, at some level, as Indigenous land. The land in question – designated for Mennonite migrants to Manitoba from Imperial Russia in 1875 and often referred to […]

Abstract: Native American people occupy a unique sociohistorical context within the United States that can render invisible in the modern cultural sphere. This project attempts to investigate the ways that the invisibility of contemporary Native American people contributes to the continuation of the settler colonial project of Indigenous elimination. It is argued that the lack […]

Abstract: Settler colonialism is a power structure that relies on reinforcement through schooling. Because middle school is where most students learn the bulk of their K-12 instruction in U.S. history, middle school history classes serve as a powerful site for disrupting harmful settler colonial narratives. But many non-Indigenous teachers, who represent the demographic majority of […]

Abstract: Democracy is a fraught concept in the realm of Indigenous politics. In its western, statecentric forms, it is used to justify colonial and imperialist violence across the globe. While in some of its earliest Indigenous forms, it constitutes a way of being that rejects constitutions of violence and fosters care-centric world-building. Oppression of children […]