Fellow 2023-2024 Anaïs Maurer
Anaïs is an Assistant Professor at Rutgers University. She received her Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2018. Prior to that, she earned an M.A. from Paris-Sorbonne University and Tulane University and a B.A. from Preparatory School St. Sernin in Toulouse, France. She also holds a Baccalaureate from Paul Gauguin High School in Pape’ete, French Polynesia.
In addition to her role at Rutgers University, she is an Affiliate Faculty at the K=1 Project in the Center for Nuclear Studies at Columbia University and previously served as a Visiting Assistant Professor at Colby College.
She has a forthcoming book titled “Pacific Post-Apocalypse: Stories from Nuclear Survivors and Climate Activists,” which will be published by Duke University Press in 2024.
Some of her selected journal articles include:
“Bonded by the Bomb: Asian-Oceanian Alliances against French Nuclear Colonialism” in the special issue of Critical Ethnic Studies titled “Center-to-Center Relationalities: At the Nexus of Pacific Islands Studies and Trans-Pacific Studies.”
“Pacific Women Antinuclear Poetry: Centering Indigenous Knowledges” in the special issue of International Affairs titled “Feminist Interrogations of Global Nuclear Politics,” co-authored with Rebecca H. Hogue.
“Snaring the Nuclear Sun: Decolonial Ecologies in Titaua Peu’s Mutismes: E ’ore te vāvā” in The Contemporary Pacific.
“Océanitude: repenser le tribalisme occidental au prisme des nationalismes océaniens” in Francosphères.
“Nukes and Nudes: Counter-Hegemonic Identities in the Nuclearized Pacific” in French Studies.
Her research focuses on topics related to nuclear studies, post-apocalyptic narratives, climate activism, decolonization, and indigenous knowledges in the context of the Pacific region.