Vernadette Vicuña Gonzalez ’96

(Duke University Press) Using original research and fascinating case studies, Gonzalez shows how tourism and militarism have functioned together in Hawai’i and the Philippines as part of the U.S. national security strategy in the pacific. She also argues that the result has been a gendered structure of feeling and formations of knowledge that have become a part of everyday life in these islands. Gonzalez is an associate professor of American studies at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa.