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Holger Droessler
Humanities & Arts
Assistant Professor
Scholarly Work
Coconut Colonialism: Workers and the Globalization of Samoa (Harvard University Press)
2022
"American Samoa has succeeded in fighting covid-19 while the U.S. government failed" (Washington Post)
2020
“Copra World: Coconuts, Plantations, and Cooperatives in German Samoa"
2018
“Colonialism by Deferral: Samoa Under the Tridominium, 1889-1899"
2017
“From A-Town to ATL: The Politics of Translation in Global Hip Hop Culture"
2015
“Performing Scientificity: Race, Science, and Politics in the United States and Germany after the Second World War"
2015
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SEE MORE NEWS ABOUT Holger Droessler
Planning Grants Awarded to Faculty and Staff for DEIJ Projects
August 29, 2022
The Global School Virtual Event Series: Oceania
February 25, 2021