Comparative Colonialisms

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Director, Center for the Study of the Pacific Northwest
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Benjamin Schmidt
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Lynn M. Thomas
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Christopher Tounsel
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Director of Graduate Studies
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Anand Yang
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Latest News

New book forthcoming: Menace to Empire by Professor Moon-Ho Jung (November 3, 2021)
Professor George Behlmer's award-winning book receives Featured Review in AHR (September 24, 2020)
New Course on the History of Global Health (February 7, 2014)
Translation: An Interview with Vicente Rafael (January 6, 2014)

Related Research

Adam Warren, Julia E. Rodriguez, and Stephen T. Casper, editors. Empire, Colonialism, and the Human Sciences: Troubling Encounters in the Americas and Pacific. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024.
Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State. Oakland: University of California Press, 2022. Print.
Liora R. Halperin, The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford University Press, 2021)
“AHR Forum Introduction: Indigenous Agency and Colonial Law,” American Historical Review 124.1 (February 2019): 20-27.
“Indigenous-Anglo Interactions over Pacific Marine Space: Makahs, Maori, and the British Empire in the Pacific,” in Facing Empire: Indigenous Experiences of Empire in a Revolutionary Age, eds. Kate Fullagar and Michael A. McDonnell (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018).
Behlmer, George. Risky Shores: Savagery and Colonialism in the Western Pacific. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2018. Print.
“Inherited Destinies: Discourses of Territorial Loss in Postcolonial States across the Pacific (Peru and the Philippines, 1903–1927).” Verge: Studies in Global Asias, vol. 3, no. 2, 2017, pp. 169–194.
Liora R. Halperin, "Petah Tikva, 1886: Gender, Anonymity, and the Making of Zionist Memory," Jewish Social Studies, 23:1 (Fall 2017): 1-28
Lai, Symbol. Decolonizing Okinawa: Social Science, Agriculture, and US Militarism, 1945-1972. Diss. University of Washington, 2017. Chairs: Tani Barlow and Vince Rafael.
Weston, Nathaniel. Scientific Authority, Nationalism, and Colonial Entanglements between Germany, Spain, and the Philippines, 1850 to 1900. Diss. University of Washington, 2012. Chair: Uta Poiger.