Alfred P. Flores is an assistant professor of Asian American Studies and core faculty in American Studies at Harvey Mudd College. He is also an extended faculty member in History at Claremont Graduate University. Professor Flores' expertise is on diaspora, labor, indigeneity, militarism, and settler colonialism in Micronesia, he is the author of Tip of the Spear: Land, Labor, and US Settler Militarism in Guahan, 1944-1962 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023). His previous work has appeared in Amerasia Journal, American Quarterly, Brill, Critical Ethnic Studies Journal, Okinawan Journal of Island Studies, and Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.