I’m an Assistant Teaching Professor in Writing Studies, Rhetoric, and Composition at Syracuse University. I completed my PhD in the Cultural Studies Graduate Group at University of California, Davis, with a Designated Emphasis in Writing, Rhetoric, and Composition Studies. I am finishing up my book manuscript Memories of Sacrifice: World War II National Parks in the US Pacific World (working title) under contract with University of Nebraska Press, which examines the role that WWII memory plays in securing contemporary American occupation of states and territories in the Pacific World.