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Spring 2022 – AMST 496-01 U.S. Empire and the Asia/Pacific Wars

All Campus, American Studies, Course and Registrar posted

Exciting American Studies course!

AMST 496-01   
U.S. Empire and the Asia/Pacific Wars

Wednesday 1:15-3:55pm
Professor Juliet Nebolon

U.S. military involvement in Asia and the Pacific Islands has impacted the experiences of Asian and Pacific Islander communities and their diaspora since the late nineteenth century. In this seminar, students study the history of the Asia/Pacific wars and investigate the consequences of U.S. militarism, empire, and settler colonialism in Asia and the Pacific Islands via individual research projects. Together we will examine historical narratives, government documents, and cultural texts (films, literature, musicals) to understand how U.S. wars in the Asia/Pacific region have informed notions of race, indigeneity, gender, and empire both at home and abroad. The course brings together scholarship from the fields of American Studies, Asian American Studies, Pacific Indigenous Studies, and East Asian Studies.

Cross-listing: AMST-896-01 and HIST-345-01