Project Title: Weaving our Liberations: Navigational Relationality and Chamorro Refusal in Låguas and Gåni
Samantha Barnettt, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Samantha Marley Barnett is a PhD candidate in the Indigenous politics program in the political science department at University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. Samantha is the co-founder of Tåhdong Marianas, a collective of Chamorro artists and activists, and a lead author in a project with the University of Guam Press to write elementary school textbooks from a culturally rooted, Chamorro perspective. She is also a German Chancellor Fellow, currently conducting a research residency and working on repatriation efforts at the Oceania Collection in the Ethnological Museum in Berlin.
About the APSA Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics Recipients
The APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants provide support for the advancement of scholars from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups and for research that examines political science phenomena affecting historically underserved communities and underrepresented groups and communities. In December 2023, APSA awarded ten projects for the APSA Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grants for Indigenous Politics for a combined amount of $20,000.
Read about the funded projects.