Author: Ashanti Shih

Ashanti Shih is an assistant professor of history at Vassar College. Her work focuses on race, colonial science, and the environment in the twentieth-century Pacific and U.S. West. Her first book, Invasive Ecologies: Settler Colonial Science and Preservation in Hawai‘i's National Parks is forthcoming with University of Washington Press in 2027. Her writing appears in Pacific Historical Review, History of Science, Historical Studies of Natural Sciences, Nature Unfurled: Asian American Environmental Histories (University of Washington Press, 2024), and Plant Humanities (Harvard University Press, 2026).