Menace to Empire - Pacific Histories of the West

Moon-Ho Jung is Professor of History and the Harry Bridges Chair in Labor Studies at the University of Washington. He is the author of Menace to Empire: Anticolonial Solidarities and the Transpacific Origins of the US Security State (2022) and Coolies and Cane: Race, Labor, and Sugar in the Age of Emancipation (2006).

Sean Fraga is an assistant professor (teaching) of Environmental Studies and History at the University of Southern California. He is an environmental historian of the North American West and eastern Pacific Ocean during the long nineteenth century, specializing in connections between U.S. imperial expansion, Native sovereignty, technology, and the environment. His book project, Ocean Fever: Steam Power, Transpacific Trade, and American Colonization of Puget Sound, is under contract with Yale University Press for publication in the Lamar Series in Western History. Before joining U.S.C.'s faculty, he was a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in U.S.C.'s Humanities in a Digital World program.