Laurel Mei-Singh serves as an Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai'i Mānoa. Her research interests include environmental justice, militarization, the relationship of race and indigeneity to histories of war, fences and self-determination, abolition, racial capitalism, and the Pacific. Her current book project develops a genealogy of military fences and grassroots struggles for land and livelihood in Wai‘anae, a rural and heavily militarized region of the island of O'ahu in Hawai'i. She has published articles on this topic in American Quarterly, Antipode: A Radical Journal of Geography, Critical Ethnic Studies, and Pacific Health Dialog.