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Associate Professor of Asian American Studies

Alfred Peredo Flores is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at 无忧视频. He is also an extended faculty member in the History Department at Claremont Graduate University and a core faculty member in the Intercollegiate Program of American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. His research and teaching focuses on diaspora, labor, indigeneity, migration, militarization, oral history, and settler colonialism in Oceania. Professor Flores is the author of the book, Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Gu氓han, 1944-1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023). His research has also appeared in Amerasia Journal, American Quarterly, Brill, Choice Magazine, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Okinawan Journal of Island Studies, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.

Education

• PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles
• Graduate Concentration in Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
• M.A., History, University of California, Riverside
• B.A., History, University of California, Riverside
• A.A., Liberal Arts, College of the Desert

Selected Publications

Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and U.S. Settler Militarism in Gu氓han, 1944-1962 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023).

K膿haulani Vaughn, Brandon J. Reilly, Alfred Peredo Flores, and Juliann Anesi, 鈥淥ceanic Activism: A Talanoa on Land, Love, and Resistance,鈥� in Okinawan Journal of Island Studies 4, no. 2 (May 2023): i-vii.

Juliann Anesi, Alfred P. Flores, Brandon Reilly, Christen Sasaki, K膿haulani Vaughn, and Pualani Warren, 鈥�(Re)centering Pacific Islanders in Trans-Pacific Studies: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Critique, and Reflections from the Diaspora,鈥� in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 7, no. 2 (Fall 2022): n.p.

鈥淎lfred & Minu: A Cold War Family Story,鈥� in Amerasia Journal 47, no. 2 (2021): 245-248.

鈥淧athways, Pedagogy, and Pacific Islander Studies,鈥� in Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Academic Careers, Volume 2, eds. Jaye Sablan and Jane Van Galen (Leiden: Brill | Sense, 2020).

鈥淯.S. Colonial Education in Guam, 1899 鈥� 1950,鈥� in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press (March 2019): n.p.

鈥淭he Power of Literature and My Experiences at the United Nations鈥� in Home(is)lands: Gu氓han & Hawai鈥榠, An Anthology of New Writing, eds. Brandy N膩lani McDougall and Craig Santos Perez (Honolulu: Ala Press, 2017).

鈥溾�楴o Walk in the Park鈥�: U.S. Empire and the Racialization of Civilian Military Labor in Guam, 1944-1962鈥� in American Quarterly 67:3 (2015): 813-835.

Jean-Paul deGuzman, Alfred P. Flores, Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen Sasaki, K膿haulani Vaughn, and Joyce Pualani Warren, 鈥淭he Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States,鈥� Amerasia Journal 37:3 (2011): 149-161.

Courses Taught

(Please refer to HSA Departmental Courses for this semester’s courses.)

• ASAM 123 Pacific Islander History and Culture through Life Writing
• ASAM 124 New Directions in Pacific Islander Studies
• ASAM 125 Introduction to Asian American History, 1850鈥揚resent
• ASAM 126 Introduction to Pacific Islander History
• HSA 10 Militarization and Decolonization in Asia and the Pacific Islands