Dr. Jess Marinaccio was most recently employed as an Assistant Professor of Asian Pacific Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills. She also previously worked for Tuvalu’s Foreign Affairs Department as well as its Embassy in Taiwan. Dr. Marinaccio researches Pacific understandings of diplomacy and Taiwan’s Pacific fisheries and has published in journals including The Contemporary Pacific, International Journal of Taiwan Studies, The Journal of Pacific History, The Journal of Global History, Nations and Nationalism, and Asia Pacific Viewpoint.