          Dr. Tina Taitano DeLisle (CHamoru) is an associate professor in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota where she teaches courses in critical Indigenous studies, Indigenous feminisms, Pacific history, and heritage studies and public history. DeLisle’s book, Placental Politics: CHamoru Women, White Womanhood, and Indigeneity in Guam (UNC Press 2021), offers an Indigenous feminist critique of the historical and cultural work of CHamoru women in relation to the imperial labor and philanthropy of American women stationed in Guåhan in the early twentieth century. Her current project traces the histories of Indigenous land struggles and neocolonial conservation and heritage in national parks and monuments in Micronesia. DeLisle’s public history work includes museum curation and the coproduction of documentaries on the revitalization of Micronesian canoe traditions and pre-World War II histories of Indigenous nurse-midwives in Guåhan. DeLisle is a former elected council member of the Native American and Indigenous Studies Association.
Dr. Tina Taitano DeLisle

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