Amber K. Chong
Research Interests
Environmental Anthropology; Indigenous political resistance; settler colonialism; Hawaiʻi; Oceania
Publications
Chong, A. “Eat the Invasives: What to Do with Resources that Nobody Asked for.” American Ethnologist. Under review as of July 2026
Awards & Grants
Wenner-Gren Foundation Dissertation Fieldwork Grant
National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowship
Institute of American Cultures Research Grant
Conference Presentations
“’The Birds Will Come Back to This Exact Spot’: Multispecies Placemaking and Resistance to Settler Colonial Dispossession.” Conference presentation, American Anthropological Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA, 2025
Degrees
MA in Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, 2023; BA in Sociology, Barnard College, 2021
