War Stories, Typhoon Tales: An Ecological History of the Marianas Archipelago

Kristin Oberiano is an assistant professor of history at Wesleyan University and is the current Distinguished Junior External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. Their research examines histories of race, indigeneity, US imperialism, and the environment in Guåhan and the Northern Mariana Islands. Kristin is currently working on an interdisciplinary research project “War Stories, Typhoon Tales: An Ecological History of the Marianas Archipelago”; their first book manuscript Territorial Discontent: CHamorus, Filipinos, and the Making of the US Empire in Guåhan is under advance contract with University of North Carolina Press. Kristin is a third-generation Filipino from Guåhan and a board member of Guåhan Sustainable Culture (GSC) since its founding in 2019. They were a Humanities Scholar for GSC’s 2021 project “Ginen I Gualo’: Histories of Farming and Agriculture on Guåhan” which was supported by Humanities Guåhan and the National Endowment for the Humanities.