International Cultural Studies About ICS Community Courses Financial Aid Alumni Site Index BYU-Hawaii RECENT PRESENTATIONS:   Ambivalent Histories in the marshall Islands: Local Prehistories of the Contemporary Global. 2006. Pacific History Association     Ambivalent Fantasies:  Local Prehistories and Global Dramas in the Marshall Islands. 2005.  American Folklore Society.     Modernism and Pacific Ways of Knowing:  An Uneasy Dialogue in Micronesia.  2004.  A Pacific Symposium on Identity and Culture.     Tricksters, Christianity, and Gender: Locally Global Inversions of Power in Marshallese Performance. 2004. American Folklore Society.     A Tricky Identity in the Marshall Islands: Dismantling the Essentialized Local and Exploring the Ambiguous Global. 2003. American Folklore Society.     To Laugh and Cry with the 'Natives": On Liminal Figures Such as the Marshallese Trickster and a Folklorist. 2002. American Folklore Society.