Jess Marinaccio, Ph.D.
Title: Assistant Professor
Department: Asian Pacific Studies
Email: jmarinaccio@csudh.edu
Phone: (310) 243-3934
Contact Preference: Email
Areas of Expertise
Pacific Studies, Taiwan Studies, Tuvalu Diplomacy, Cultural Diplomacy, Decolonization
Professional Background
Dr. Marinaccio was most recently employed in Tuvalu’s Department of Foreign Affairs, and she has also worked as a Mandarin–English interpreter for the Tuvalu Embassy in Taiwan. Her research focuses on Tuvalu–Taiwan cultural diplomacy as well as understandings of diplomacy and indigeneity in Taiwan and its Pacific allies. She has published relevant articles in Issues & Studies, Asia Pacific Viewpoint, International Journal of Cultural Policy, International Journal of Taiwan Studies, and The Contemporary Pacific.
Education
Ph.D., Pacific Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
M.A., Chinese Literature, National Taiwan University
B.A., History and Chinese Language, Williams College
Languages
English, Mandarin Chinese, Tuvaluan (intermediate)
Related News Stories
How Pacific Climate Diplomacy is Changing, Asia & The Pacific Policy Society, 2022
‘How is Tuvalu Securing Against COVID-19?’: A Response from Funafuti, Devpolicy Blog, 2020
Rethinking Diplomacy and Its Cultural, Social, and Political Contexts: The Diplomacies of Tuvalu, the Pacific, and Taiwan, Taiwan Insight, 2019
The Youth Ambassadors and Taiwan’s Performative Cultural Diplomacy “Some of the Dancing, Yeah, I Don’t Really Understand [It],” Taiwan Insight, 2019
