Colonialism

Hajin Jun is the James B. Palais Assistant Professor of Korean History in the Jackson School of International Studies and the Department of History. Jun’s research and teaching focus on the history of modern Korea, the Japanese empire, and global Christianity.

Ray Jonas is a historian of “the long nineteenth century” which opens with the crisis of the European Old Regime in 1789 and concludes with its collapse in World War One.

Adrian Kane-Galbraith was a 2019 Mellon Collaborative Fellow for Reaching New Publics with Jo

Laurie Marhoefer is a historian of queer and trans politics.

Ileana M. Rodríguez-Silva is an associate professor of Latin American and Caribbean history at the University of Washington-Seattle. She graduated magna cum laude from the Universidad de Puerto Rico - Río Piedras with a B.A. in History. She holds an M.A.

Jordana Bailkin is a scholar of modern Britain and empire who has been dedicated to exploring the global dimensions of British studies and participating in scholarly and public conversations about Britain’s shifting status in the world.

Jesse Oak Taylor is an associate professor at the University of Washington in Seattle where he also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies in English and core faculty for the minor in Environmental Cultures and Values.

Taylor Soja is a historian of modern Britain who specializes in the histories of war, gender, and empire. Her dissertation examines the lives of a wide variety of British men and women who directly experienced multiple wars in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Cricket Keating is an Associate Professor in the Gender, Women, & Sexuality Studies Department. Her research is in the areas of political theory, decolonial politics, popular education and critical pedagogy, queer politics, transnational feminist theory, and technofeminism.

My research focuses on migrant agricultural labor in the context of U.S. expansion. My dissertation, "Mobilizing Empire: Race, Sugar, and U.S. Colonialism across the Pacific, 1898-1934," studies the making of imperial subjects in and through the movements of labor and capital in the U.S.

Smith is an associate professor in the Department of French and Italian Studies at the University of Washington.

Ayda's research interests center around forced migration studies, critical humanitarian studies, and anthropology of religion. Ayda has currently finalized her field research in Gaziantep, Turkey.

Burcu is in the Interdisciplinary PhD Program in Near and Middle East Studies.

Rick Bonus is primarily a professor of American Ethnic Studies, but he also has strong interests in the conjunctions among ethnic studies, American studies, Pacific Islander Studies, and Southeast Asian studies, particularly as they deal with the historical and contemporary phenomena of migration

Devin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies, Associate Professor of History, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. From New Jersey, Dr.

Brad Horst is a 3rd year doctoral student in the History Department.

Anna Preus is an assistant professor in the English Department at the University of Washington, where she studies and teaches early 20th-century British and Anglophone literature and data science in the humanities.

Samantha Thompson is a feminist urban geographer and doctoral candidate in the Department of Geography at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her dissertation explores the role of care in housing through an examination of the history of tenant protections in Seattle, WA and Vancouver, BC.

Vicente L. Rafael was born and raised in Manila, Philippines. He is Professor of History and Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Washington in Seattle.

In her second book, Bet-Shlimon studies how colonized people articulate their aspirations for liberation in places where imperial relationships at different scales overlap and intertwine.

Lynn M. Thomas is the Giovanni and Amne Costigan Endowed Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle with adjunct appointments in Anthropology and Gender, Women & Sexuality Studies.

Reuven Pinnata was born and raised in Surabaya, Indonesia and is currently a doctoral candidate in the English Department at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Cristina Sánchez-Martín is assistant professor of English at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her work involves thinking about language, literacy, and identities through expansive and decolonial orientations to create more equitable dynamics.

Taiko Aoki-Marcial is a doctoral candidate in the English department. She received her B.A. in Communications from the University of Washington and attended the Universidad Complutense de Madrid where she earned her M.A. in Social Communications.

Jennie Baker is a doctoral student in English at the University of Washington. Their research considers the production of social difference through modes of “being human” in speculative and technological imaginaries across the Pacific.

Shelby House is a doctoral student in the Sociocultural Anthropology program and a Graduate Fellow at the UW Center for Environmental Politics.

Gabrielle Benabdallah is a doctoral candidate in Human Centered Design & Engineering (HCDE) at the University of Washington in Seattle. Her work is at the intersection of systems research, interaction design, and philosophy.

Nathanael Elias Mengist is a doctoral student in Human Centered Design and Engineering at the University of Washington. Nat has a background in community gardening and nonprofit leadership.