
- Professor, Liberal Studies
- Professor, Anthropology
Research Interests
- ethnography, international affairs, war, military, veterans
Education
- Ph.D. Columbia University
Publications
Books:
- Petersen, G. (2021). War and the Arc of Human Experience. Lanham, MD: Hamilton/Rowman & Littlefield.
- Petersen, G. (2009). Traditional Micronesian Societies: Adaptation, Integration, and Political Organization. University of Hawaii Press.
Articles:
- Petersen, G. (2019). "Micronesian Ethnography from a Disordered Soul". Anthropology & Humanism 44 (1), 112-126.
- Petersen, G. (2018). The Abyss Stares Back. As You Were: The Military Review, 9. http://militaryexperience.org/as-you-were-the-military-review-vol-9/the-abyss-stares-back/
- Petersen, G. (2015). At the Intersection of Chieftainship and Constitutional Government: Some Comparisons from Micronesia. Journal de la Société des Océanistes, 151(2), 265-275.
- Petersen, G. (2015). American Anthropology's 'Thailand Controversy': An Object Lesson in Professional Responsibility. SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, 30(2), 528-549.
- Petersen, G. (2015). Everyday Danger: War Trauma in the Absence of Drama. Blue Nostalgia: A Journal of Pos-Traumatic Growth, 2, 16-32.
- Petersen, G. (2014). The Possibilities of Violence and the Skills to Avoid It: On Warfare and Its Absence in Traditional Micronesia. Anthropologica, 56(2), 315-326.
- Petersen, G. (2012). "The Moral Compass of an Anthropological Career". Anthropology Now, 4(3), 75-84.
