Juliet Nebolon is Assistant Professor of American Studies. She received her Ph.D. in American Studies from Yale University. Her research and teaching bring a transnational perspective to the study of race, indigeneity, and gender in the United States, with a particular focus on U.S. war and empire in Asia and the Pacific Islands. Nebolon’s book, Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of U.S. Empire (Duke UP, forthcoming 2024), focuses on the martial law period in Hawai‘i during the Pacific War.  This interdisciplinary project explores the overlapping regimes of settler colonialism and militarization in the domains of public health, domestic science, education, land acquisition, and internment.  Her article in American Quarterly, “‘Life Given Straight from the Heart’: Settler Militarism, Biopolitics, and Public Health in Hawai‘i during World War II,” was awarded the American Studies Association’s 2018 Constance M. Rourke Prize. She recently published a second article, “Settler-Military Camps: Internment and Prisoner of War Camps across the Pacific Islands during World War II,” in the Journal of Asian American Studies.

curriculum vitae

Publications:

• Nebolon, Juliet, “Settler-Military Camps: Internment and Prisoner of War Camps across the Pacific Islands during World War II,” Journal of Asian American Studies 24, no. 2 (2021): 299-335. 
• Nebolon, Juliet, “‘Life Given Straight from the Heart’: Settler Militarism, Biopolitics, and Public Health in Hawai‘i during World War II,” American Quarterly 69, no. 1 (2017): 23-45.

Selected Presentations (* indicates invited presentation):

• “Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of U.S. Empire,” Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations Conference, New Orleans, LA, June 2022.
• *“‘National Defense is Based on Land’: Landscapes of Settler Militarism in Hawai‘i,” Social Landscapes of U.S. Military Empire, Vanderbilt University, June-July 2021.
• *“Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of U.S. Empire,” Asian American Studies Lecture Series, Amherst College, April 2021.
• “Roundtable: Occupied Archipelagos: Visions of Militarism, Indigeneity, and Racialization in the Pacific,” American Studies Association Conference, Honolulu, HI, November 2019.
• “Race and Indigeneity Across Landscapes of Settler Militarism in WWII Hawai‘i,” Association for Asian American Studies Conference, Madison, WI, April 2019.
• “Circuits of Internment Across Transpacific Camps during World War II,” American Studies Association Conference, Atlanta, GA, November 2018.
• *“Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of Transpacific Empire,” American Studies Takes on the World: Wesleyan Celebrates AMST @ 50, Center for the Americas, Wesleyan University, November 2018.
• “World War II Landscapes of Settler Militarism in Hawai‘i,” (Re)mapping Indigenous and Settler Geographies in the Pacific Conference, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, October 2018.
• *“Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of Transpacific Empire,” Global American Studies Symposium, Charles Warren Center for Studies in American History, Harvard University, September 2018.
• *“Conversations in API Studies: Consequences of U.S. Militarization in Asia and the Pacific,” The Committee on Ethnicity, Migration, and Rights, Harvard University, September 2018.  
• *“‘The First Line of Defense is Our Home’: Settler-Military Domesticity in World War II-Era Hawai‘i,” New Approaches to Gender and Migration in the U.S. Since 1900, Bates College, May 2018.
• *“The Future of Pacific History,” plenary panelist, Con-IH 18 Global and International History: The Pacific in the World, Harvard University, March 2018.
• “American Quarterly: Workshop on AQ Review and Editorial Process,” American Studies Association Conference, Chicago, IL, November 2017.
  

• American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Fellowship, ACLS, 2022-2023
• Writing Fellow, Allan K. Smith Center for Writing and Rhetoric, Trinity College, Spring 2021 
• Curricular Development Grant, Indigenous Studies Working Group, Trinity College, 2020 
• Constance M. Rourke Prize (for “Life Given Straight from the Heart”), American Studies Association, 2018
• Finalist Mention, Ralph Henry Gabriel Dissertation Prize, American Studies Association, 2018
• Research and Travel Award in International History and Security, The Smith Richardson Foundation, Yale University, 2016
• Yale Club of San Francisco Summer Research Grant, Yale University, 2016
• John F. Enders Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2015
• American Studies Graduate Summer Research Fellowship, Yale University, 2014