Keith L. Camacho is a Chamorro historian from the Mariana Islands and a Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California–Los Angeles. Keith completed his MA in Pacific Islands Studies at UHM in 1998, followed by a PhD in history. He now serves as Professor of Asian American Studies, University of California–Los Angeles. His research interests include the study of diaspora, gender, militarization, policing, and resistance among Pacific Islanders and other Indigenous and people of color communities.
Camacho is also the author of Sacred Men: Law, Torture, and Retribution in Guam (Duke University Press, 2019), Senka wo Kinensuru: Guamu Saipan no Rekishi to Kioku, Translated by Akira Nishimura and Yasuki Machi (Iwanami Shoten, 2016); Cultures of Commemoration: The Politics of War, Memory, and History in the Mariana Islands (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2011); and Militarized Currents: Toward a Decolonized Future in Asia and the Pacific (University of Minnesota Press, 2010).
Camacho has also begun to analyze diasporas, settler colonialism, and youth, as illustrated in his volume, Reppin’: Pacific Islander Youth and Native Justice (University of Washington Press, 2021). After being selected as a Guggenheim Fellow in 2021, he began work an oral history about Samoan youth resilience in New Zealand and the United States. The project is called “Street Cred: A History of Samoan Gangs.”
