Kristin Oberiano is a historian of the United States empire in the Pacific. Oberiano’s first book project, Territorial Discontent: CHamorus, Filipinos, and the Making of the United States Empire on Guåhan, examines the evolution of the political, social, and cultural relations between Indigenous Chamorro people and Filipino migrants under the United States military empire on Guam over the twentieth century. Territorial Discontent engages in frameworks of race, settler colonialism, militarism, and migration within empire. Oberiano's second project, War Stories, Typhoon Tales, is an ecological history of the Marianas archipelago.

At Wesleyan, Oberiano teaches courses in twentieth-century US history, the history of US in the World, US imperialism, Asian and Pacific Islander history, and Pacific history.

Now an islander living on the East Coast, Oberiano was born to Filipino immigrant families and raised in Guam.