Juliet Nebolon (she/her) is an Assistant Professor of American Studies. 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 US Empire (Duke UP, 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 land acquisition, public health, domestic science, education, 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.

curriculum vitae

Publications:

• Nebolon, Juliet. Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of US Empire. Durham: Duke University Press, 2024.
• 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.
• "'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.

• 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