Aaron Padgett

Recruiters’ Paradise Sofya Aptekar, TCCS Core Faculty On November 11, currently recognized as Veterans’ Day in the United States, I attended a screening of Island Soldier at the DOC NYC film festival. Island Soldier pr…

Such a great book! She also has a nice short reflection on the film Island Soldier which looks at US militarism in the Pacific and the heavy recruitment of Micronesians into the US military. blogs.umb.edu/cecsprogram/...

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Thanks! I appreciate your work.

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This looks great! Wish I could’ve incorporated into one of my dissertation chapters but I already submitted it earlier this week. Will be really useful in something else I’m working on.

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Title slide of Aaron Padgett’s dissertation defense, “‘Currents We Have to Swim Against in this Global Sea’: Imperial Hegemony, Migration, and Counternarrative in and beyond Micronesia.”

Happy to share that last week, I successfully defended my PhD dissertation, “‘Currents We Have to Swim Against in this Global Sea’: Imperial Hegemony, Migration, and Counternarrative in and beyond Micronesia.” Deeply grateful for many peoples’ support and encouragement throughout the process.

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New Destinations of Empire In 1986 the Compact of Free Association marked the formal end of U.S. colonialism in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, while simultaneously re-entrenchin...

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