Olivia Palepoi
- Graduate Student // Anthropology
- Teaching Assistant // Anthropology
Office and Contact
Email: opalepoi@purdue.edu
Research interests: Indigenous Studies, Pacific Islander Studies, Diaspora and Migration Studies, Creative Arts, and Archives
Talofa, everyone! My name is Olivia Palepoi and I am from the mountains of Utah and the islands of Samoa located in the heart of the Moana! I enjoy creative engagements mainly working with photographs, collages, and collaborative exhibition installations articulating the intersections of empire and settler colonialism using Pacific and/or Indigenous lenses. Overall, my work hopes to offer some insight into the experiences of the Samoan diaspora in Utah by centering the ways knowledge is practiced, regenerative, embodied, and curated through an intergenerational lens.