Adapted from the conspiracies and events surrounding Malaysia Airlines Flight 370, which presumably disappeared over the Southern Indian Ocean, this play examines the emotional, mythological, and political ramifications of loss. By exploring the bottom of the ocean, the characte…
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Two dominant traditional subsistence economies characterize Central Maluku, eastern Indonesia. One is a coastal strand/maritime-based economy in which marine resources play a central role. The other is an arboreal-based terrestrial economy in which forest resources play a domina…
Typically, multi-model ensemble studies show mixed responses of El Nino Southern Oscillation (ENSO) under global warming, so it is currently unknown how, or even if, global warming will impact ENSO and its teleconnections. ENSO is governed by various ocean-atmosphere interaction…
In the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI), there are at least two groups of people with privileged claims to the islands' territory: The U.S. Military and the native Chamorro and Refaluwasch peoples. As some of the longest colonized islands in the Pacific, …
By the 1840s the American Whaling industry in the Pacific had reached its zenith with hundreds of ships crewed by thousands of men plying the waters from the Artic to the Antarctic seeking out whales to kill and turn into precious barrels of whale oil. These floating factories o…
This project explores a set of limited maritime conflicts in the Pacific and their effects on the creation of the U.S. “New Navy”: The United States military’s first substantive peacetime expansion, c. 1882-1898. It does so in an effort to understand how technological shifts and…
This research will focus on the sexual misconduct of the United States military following the end of the Second World War in the Korean peninsula, Japan, and the Philippines. In this research, I will argue that the United States military engaged in a system of widespread sexual …
American Samoa as a self-governing U.S. territory located in the South Pacific is fortunate to be able to maintain their cultural traditions, language, and lands in all aspects- including their government. However, when the community suffers from a number of growing issues that …
Accreditation has evolved into a cornerstone of U.S. higher education, and reflects the histories, norms, and values of the U.S. academic system. It is an institutional process with visibility at the highest levels of federal government with far-reaching consequences for the ins…