
- Professor, Liberal Studies
- Professor, Anthropology
Research Interests
- ethnography, international affairs, war, military, veterans
Education
- Ph.D. Columbia University
Publications
Professor Petersen’s books include One Man Cannot Rule a Thousand: Fission in a Ponapean Chiefdom; Ethnicity and Interests at the 1990 the Federated States of Micronesia Constitutional Convention; and Lost in the Weeds: Theme and Variation in Pohnpei Political Mythology. In 2009 the University of Hawaii Press published his Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization.
