Alfred P. Flores

Alfred Flores

Associate Professor of Asian American Studies

Alfred Peredo Flores is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at Harvey Mudd College. He is also an extended faculty member in the History Department at Claremont Graduate University and a core faculty member in the Intercollegiate Program of American Studies at the Claremont Colleges. His research and teaching focuses on diaspora, labor, indigeneity, migration, militarization, oral history, and settler colonialism in Oceania. Professor Flores is the author of the book, Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944-1962 (Cornell University Press, 2023). His research has also appeared in Amerasia Journal, American Quarterly, Brill, Choice Magazine, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Okinawan Journal of Island Studies, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.

Education

  • PhD, History, University of California, Los Angeles
  • Graduate Concentration in Asian American Studies, University of California, Los Angeles
  • M.A., History, University of California, Riverside
  • B.A., History, University of California, Riverside
  • A.A., Liberal Arts, College of the Desert

Selected Publications

Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and U.S. Settler Militarism in Guåhan, 1944-1962 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023).

Kēhaulani Vaughn, Brandon J. Reilly, Alfred Peredo Flores, and Juliann Anesi, “Oceanic Activism: A Talanoa on Land, Love, and Resistance,” in Okinawan Journal of Island Studies 4, no. 2 (May 2023): i-vii.

Juliann Anesi, Alfred P. Flores, Brandon Reilly, Christen Sasaki, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Pualani Warren, “(Re)centering Pacific Islanders in Trans-Pacific Studies: Transdisciplinary Dialogue, Critique, and Reflections from the Diaspora,” in Critical Ethnic Studies Journal 7, no. 2 (Fall 2022): n.p.

“Alfred & Minu: A Cold War Family Story,” in Amerasia Journal 47, no. 2 (2021): 245-248.

“Pathways, Pedagogy, and Pacific Islander Studies,” in Amplified Voices, Intersecting Identities: First-Gen PhDs Navigating Institutional Power in Early Academic Careers, Volume 2, eds. Jaye Sablan and Jane Van Galen (Leiden: Brill | Sense, 2020).

“U.S. Colonial Education in Guam, 1899 – 1950,” in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History. Oxford University Press (March 2019): n.p.

“The Power of Literature and My Experiences at the United Nations” in Home(is)lands: Guåhan & Hawai‘i, An Anthology of New Writing, eds. Brandy Nālani McDougall and Craig Santos Perez (Honolulu: Ala Press, 2017).

“‘No Walk in the Park’: U.S. Empire and the Racialization of Civilian Military Labor in Guam, 1944-1962” in American Quarterly 67:3 (2015): 813-835.

Jean-Paul deGuzman, Alfred P. Flores, Kristopher Kaupalolo, Christen Sasaki, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Joyce Pualani Warren, “The Possibilities for Pacific Islander Studies in the Continental United States,” Amerasia Journal 37:3 (2011): 149-161.

Courses Taught

(Please refer to HSA Departmental Courses for this semester’s courses.)

  • ASAM 123 Pacific Islander History and Culture through Life Writing
  • ASAM 124 New Directions in Pacific Islander Studies
  • ASAM 125 Introduction to Asian American History, 1850–Present
  • ASAM 126 Introduction to Pacific Islander History
  • HSA 10 Militarization and Decolonization in Asia and the Pacific Islands