KIMIKO HARU TANITA

Global Sociocultural Studies
School of International & Public Affairs
Florida International University
11200 SW 8th St, SIPA 3^rd Floor
Miami, FL 33199
415.302.3338
ktani002[at]fiu.edu

EDUCATION

2019  (expected) PhD, Anthropology, Florida International University, Miami, FL

2008  BA, Anthropology, University of California-Berkeley. Berkeley, CA
             Magna Cum Laude

RESEARCH & TEACHING INTERESTS

Medical anthropology; Critical tourism studies; Asian studies; Critical race theory; Whiteness studies; Transnational feminist theory; Postcolonial theory; Beauty, Race and Gender

PUBLICATIONS

Ogden, Laura, Tanita, Kimiko, Hall, William. 2013. “Animals, Plants  and People: A Review of Multispecies Ethnography.”  Environment and Society: Advances in Research  [Available Here]

AWARDS & GRANTS

2016
Student Government Association Graduate Scholarship
Florida International University

2015
Doctoral Evidence Acquisition Fellowship
Florida International University

2015
Student Government Association, Academic Merit Scholarship
Florida International University

2014-2015
Student Government Association, The New Donor Matching Scholarship
Florida International University

2014
Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowship
Social Science Research Council

2011-Present
Awarded full tuition and TA/RA stipend for four years
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies (GSS)
School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)
Florida International University (FIU)

2015
Recipient of GSS Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding to present at the National Women’s Association annual meeting, Milwaukee, WI.

2014
Recipient of GSS Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding to present at the National Women’s Association annual meeting, San Juan, PR.

2012
Recipient of GSS Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding to present at the American Anthropological Association annual meeting, San Francisco, CA.

Recipient of GSS Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding to present at the National Women’s Association annual meeting, Oakland, CA.

Recipient of GSS Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding to present at the Southern Sociological Association annual meeting, New Orleans, LA.

Recipient of GSS Graduate Student Conference Travel Funding to present at the Eastern Sociological Society annual meeting, New York, NY.

PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

2018
National Women’s Studies Association. Presenter at the annual meeting Atlanta, GA.

2017
National Women’s Studies Association. Presenter at the annual meeting in Baltimore, MA.

2015
“Neoliberal Fantasies of Cosmopolitan Whiteness: The Promises of Biotechnology in East Asia’s Medical Tourism Industry,” National Women’s Studies Association. Presenter at the annual meeting in Milwaukee, WI.

2014
“Commodified Bodies and Embodied Consumerism: Cosmetic Medical Tourism, Asians Eyes, and the Allure of Cosmopolitan Whiteness,” National Women’s Studies Association. Presenter and Panel Moderator for “Embodied Transgressions in a Transnational Framework,” at the annual meeting in San Juan, PR.

2014
“Co-opting Ethnic Identities? Examining Asian Racialized Cosmetic Surgeries through a Postcolonial-Feminist Framework,” Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods Conference. Presented at the annual meeting in Las Vegas, NV.

2012
“Hierarchical Beauty: Asian Americans and the Rise of Racial Cosmetic Surgeries,” American Anthropological Association. Presented at the annual meeting in San Francisco, CA.

2012
“The Standardization of Beauty: Asian and Asian American Eyelid Surgery.” National Women’s Studies Association.  Presenter and Panel Moderator for “Decolonizing Knowledge through a Transnational Feminist Framework” at the annual meeting in Oakland, CA.

2012
“Cosmopolitan Whiteness and Asian Cosmetic Surgeries” Southern Sociological Association. Presented at the annual meeting in New Orleans, LA.

2012
“Homogenized Beauty: Asians and Blepharoplasty” Eastern Sociological Society. Presented at the annual meeting in New York, NY.

2011
“Blepharoplasty and the Standardization of Beauty” Women, Gender and Sexuality Student Conference. Presented at the annual meeting, Florida International University, Miami, FL.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

2012
“Qualitative Methods: Implementing Critical Discourse Analysis,” Presented for Professor Julia Meszaro’s Social Ideas course, Florida International University (May).

2012
“Beauty Ideals Hierarchized: Racial Cosmetic Surgeries among Asian Americans,” Presented for Professor Julia Meszaro’s Introduction to Sociology course, Florida International University (September).

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2015
Criminology, Summer 2015. Dr. Richard Tardanico
Criminology, Spring 2015. Dr. Richard Tardanico

2014
Social Deviancy, Fall 2014. Dr. Richard Tardanico
Political Geography of Latin America, Summer 2014. Dr. Charles Heck
Research Methods, Spring 2014. Dr. Alex Stepick

2013
Introduction to Geography, Fall 2013. Dr. Jeff Onsted
Geography of Africa, Fall 2013. Dr. Caroline Faria
The Individual in Society, Summer 2013. Dr. Guillermo Grenier
Urban Geography/Ecology, Spring 2013. Dr. Jeff Onsted

2012
Introduction to Human Geography, Fall 2012. Dr. Caroline Faria
Social Ideas, Summer 2012. Julia Meszaros
Political Geography, Spring 2012. Dr. Ulrich Oslender

2011
Urban Geography/Ecology, Fall 2011. Dr. Jeff Onsted

SERVICE 

2014
Panel Moderator and Presenter: “Embodied Transgressions in a Transnational Framework,”
National Women’s Studies Association, San Juan, PR.

2014
Guest Lecturer: Population and Geography of Africa, Florida International University (February, March)
Guest Lecturer: Geography and Gender, Florida International University (February, March)

2014
Invited Panel Discussant for Second Annual WiP (Works in Progress) Session, Florida International University, Miami, FL. (March).

2013
Guest Lecturer: Introduction to Geography, Florida International University (September, October, November)

2013
Guest Lecturer: Geography of Africa, Florida International University (September, November)

2013
Guest Lecturer: Urban Geography/Ecology, Florida International University (February, April)

2012
Panel Moderator and Presenter: “Decolonizing Knowledge through a Transnational Feminist Framework,”
National Women’s Studies Association, Oakland, CA.

2012
Panel Moderator for “Exploring New Dimensions in Nature-Culture Dichotomies and Environmental Politics” for the Global Sociocultural Studies Department First Annual Colloquium: “Transgressing Boundaries & Occupying Spaces: Examining Inequalities in Nature-Culture,” Florida International University, Miami, FL. (March)

2012
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies focus group volunteer regarding issues of fundraising as well as creating a stronger GSS Alumni Network (February).

2009
Tutor in English, Math, Reading, and Writing: SOS Children’s Village, Cape Town, South Africa.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS

2010-Present     American Anthropological Association. Member.
2010-Present     Association for Feminist Anthropology.
2010-Present     Society for Cultural Anthropology.
2011-Present     Eastern Sociological Association. Member.
2011-Present     Southern Sociological Society. Member.
2012-Present     National Women’s Society Association. Member.
2012-Present     American Association of Geographers. Member.
2012-Present     American Sociological Association. Member.

RELATED PROFESSIONAL SKILLS

Qualitative Methodology, Quantitative Methodology, STATA, SPSS, GIS

ACADEMIC REFERENCES

Mark Padilla, Associate Professor
Mark.Padilla@fiu.edu
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies,
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, SIPA 320

Percy Hintzen, Professor
Percy.Hintzen@fiu.edu
Department of Global and Sociocultural Studies,
11200 SW 8th Street, Miami, FL 33199, SIPA 330

Caroline Faria, Assistant Professor
Cvfaria@austin.utexas.edu
Department of Geography and the Environment,
305 E. 23rd Street, Austin, TX 78712, CLA 3.414