Welcome, Dr. Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez

We are very delighted that Dr. Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is PhISO’s Member of Board of Advisors. For the current list of advisors, please click here.

Dr. Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez is Associate Professor of American Studies and Director of Honors at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. Her research focuses on U.S. empire, postcolonial and transnational cultural studies, and more specifically tourism and militarism in the colonial and contemporary contexts. Her publications include a book, Securing Paradise: Tourism and Militarism in Hawai‘i and the Philippines (Duke 2013), recent book chapters in collections such as Making the Empire Work (NYU 2015) and Mobile Desires (Palgrave 2015) and various journals such as Radical History Review, Frontiers, and The Global South.