Pacific Islands Studies Mellon Grant Faculty Lead , School for Cultural and Social Transformation
Assistant Professor, Gender Studies

u6027239@utah.edu

Publications

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Angela L. Robinson & Laura Terrance (2022). “The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments.". Routledge Press., 11/07/2022 OCEANIA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Angela L. Robinson (2022). “Navigating Home: Relation of Oceania Feminist Solidarity.” . Amerasia Journal., 07/01/2022 OCEANIA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Angela L. Robinson (2022). “Renewable Plantations: Blackbirding, Biofuel, and Black and Indigenous Eco-Futurity.” . English Language Notes., 07/01/2022 OCEANIA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Angela L. Robinson & Hokulani Aikau (2021). Feeling Oceans in the Desert: Affective Methods and Pedagogies for Approaching Climate Change. TBD., 05/01/2021 OCEANIA UNITED STATES

Presentations

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Renewable Plantations: Blackbirding, Biofuel, and Black and Indigenous Environmental Justice," Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, May 12-14, Virtual., 02/06/2023 OCEANIA
• NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Planetary Poetics and Climate Change,” Commentator at the annual meeting of the American Studies Association, November 3-6, New Orleans, LA., 11/05/2022 GLOBAL
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “The Obligations of Our Ecological Relations: A Challenge for Land Acknowledgments,” Conference Speaker for Knowing Life: The Ethics of Multispecies Epistemologies. University of California, Irvine, November 3-5, Virtual., 11/2022 OCEANIA
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | ENERGY | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Dispossession: Oceania,” Symposium Panelist for Plantation After/Lives: Roots, Routes, and Relations. University of Texas, Austin, April 29, Virtual., 04/29/2022 GLOBAL
• ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Remembering Our Bones: The Limits of Settler Affect & Memory in Cat Ruka’s Playing Savage,” Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association, June 14-21, Virtual., 06/16/2021 OCEANIA UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: “Climate Justice in Oceania: Affective Regimes & Indigenous Performance.” University of Southern California, February 23, Virtual., 02/23/2021 OCEANIA UNITED STATES

Teaching

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Pedagogies for Teaching Pacific Studies at Home and Abroad , 01/01/2021-05/01/2021 GLOBAL AMERICAN SAMOA AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FIJI MARSHALL ISLANDS MICRONESIA SAMOA SOLOMON ISLANDS TONGA UNITED STATES

Internal Service

• NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Environmental Humanities MA Admissions Committee, 12/01/2022-03/01/2023
• NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Utah Award in the Environmental Humanities Committee, 08/15/2022-10/31/2022
• NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Queer Ecologies Summer Reading Group, 03/01/2022-08/15/2022
• NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Environmental Humanities Steering Committee, 08/16/2021
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Environmental Humanities Outstanding Seminar Paper Award, 08/16/2021-12/22/2021
• NATURE & CULTURE: "Part Land, Part Sea, All Ancestry": Guma’ Gela’ Fashion Show, Weaving Workshop, and Panel, 07/01/2021-12/01/2021 OCEANIA UNITED STATES
• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE | WATER | CLIMATE CHANGE | ECOLOGICAL & ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE: Pacific Islands Studies Initiative Planning Committee , 01/01/2021 AMERICAN SAMOA AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND FIJI GUAM MICRONESIA NIUE SOLOMON ISLANDS TONGA

External Service

• JUSTICE, EQUITY & DIVERSITY | NATURE & CULTURE: Guma' Gela' x Nuanua Fashion Show: partnership between University of Utah Pacific Islands Studies Initiative, Nuanua, Pik2ar, Guma' Gela', and Utah Museum of Contemporary Arts, 06/01/2021-12/01/2021 OCEANIA UNITED STATES

Media

• CLIMATE CHANGE: "With Pacific Island Nations summit, US hopes to restore influence in region eroded by China," South China Morning Post., 09/29/2022 GLOBAL