Trinity College Assistant Professor of American Studies Juliet Nebolon recently was awarded a 2022 fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS). The fellowship grant is supporting Nebolon during this academic year as she completes her first book, Settler Militarism: World War II in Hawai‘i and the Making of U.S. Empire, which explores the period of martial law in Hawai‘i from 1941 to 1944.
ACLS fellowships and grants are awarded to individual scholars for excellence in research in the humanities and related social sciences. Nebolon earned a Ph.D. in American studies from Yale University. Her research and teaching bring a transnational perspective to the study of race, indigeneity, and gender in the United States, with a particular focus on U.S. war and empire in Asia and the Pacific Islands. In addition to teaching courses on these subjects, Nebolon also teaches the first-year seminar “Race and American Culture.”