Victoria Siaumau
I am Victoria Siaumau (they/she), a doctoral student in Ethnic Studies at UCSD. My previous work involves analyzing and intervening in engineering education spaces for the ways in which they engage, emulate, and are built off of settler colonialism, imperialism, and systems of oppression. Situated in Ethnic Studies and Decolonial Science & Technology Studies, I am broadly interested in how socio-technical interventions are justified, measured, and enacted in relation to militarism. My research aims to interrogate how medical interventions function as a structural necessity of settler militarism in Oceania, leading to the displacement, movement, and collision of bodies and knowledge systems. I am interested in questions relating to settler colonialism, empire, intervention, knowledge dissemination, diaspora, and militarism.
