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Dr. Karine Narahara

Assistant Professor

University of North Texas

Department of Anthropology

(940) 565-3583

Email: Karine.Narahara@unt.edu

Education

  • PhD, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, 2019
    Major: Anthropology
    Dissertation: In Mapuche’s Territory: Petroleum Companies, Newen and Knowledge in Puel Mapu (Argentina)
  • Licenciatura, Lutheran University of Brazil, 2017
    Major: Social Sciences
  • MA, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, 2011
    Major: Sociology and Anthropology
    Dissertation: Between the Margin and the Center: Agroextractivism, Interchange, and Reciprocity in a Rubber State at Acre
  • BS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro - Brazil, 2003
    Major: Biological Sciences

Licensures and Certifications

  • Ethics and Standards of Conduct, UNT. (2023 - Present).
  • Ethics and Standards of Conduct, UNT. (2022 - Present).
  • FERPA Training, UNT. (2022 - Present).
  • UNT Policies & Title IX: Preventing Discrimination, Harassment, Sexual Misconduct & Retaliation, UNT. (2022 - Present).
  • Social & Behavioral Research - Basic/Refresher, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). (2022 - 2025).

Professional Memberships

  • Society of Ethnobiology. (March 2025 - Present).
  • College of Language Association. (September 2024 - Present).
  • Society for Applied Anthropology. (October 12, 2022 - Present).
  • American Anthropological Association. (October 3, 2022 - Present).
  • Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement. (August 24, 2022 - Present).

Development Activities

  • Conference Attendance, Anthropocene Commons Latin America, Anthropocene Commons Network. Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. (December 2, 2024 - December 7, 2024).
  • Conference Attendance, Crossing Boundaries 2024, Max Planck Institute. Jena,Germany. (June 24, 2024 - June 26, 2024).
  • Conference Attendance, XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting - RAM, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA). Niterói,Rio de Janeiro,Brazil. (August 1, 2023 - August 4, 2023).
  • Conference Attendance, 2022 AAA Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association. Seattle (Online),Washington,United States of America. (November 8, 2022 - November 13, 2022).
  • Conference Attendance, 34TH ANNUAL CHEIKH ANTA DIOP INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE, Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA). Philadelphia,Philadelphia,United States of America. (October 14, 2022 - October 15, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

    University of North Texas

  • ANTH 3200 - Latin America, 3 courses.
  • ANTH 3996 - Honors College Mentored Research Experience, 1 course.
  • ANTH 4400 - Environmental Anthropology, 4 courses.
  • ANTH 4900 - Special Problems, 5 courses.
  • ANTH 5031 - Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, 3 courses.
  • ANTH 5400 - Environmental Anthropology, 7 courses.
  • ANTH 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • ANTH 5950 - Applied Thesis, 2 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "TBD," Anthropology. (October 16, 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "TBD," Anthropology. (October 9, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, "TBD," History. (May 7, 2025).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Chair, "Caatingar the Thought: When People, Animals, and Plants Speak," Other - Outside UNT. (April 28, 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Chair, "Evaluation of Wetlands Conservation Education," Anthropology. (February 11, 2025).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Maternal Health Equity in Bangladesh's Tea Gardens: Exploring Structural Conditions and Cultural Practices through Ethnographic Research," Anthropology. (February 6, 2025).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Transmissão de perspectivas culturais orais no Tambor de Mina (Transmission of Cultural Practices Through Oral Tradition in the Tambor de Mina))," Other - Outside UNT. (January 20, 2025).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Communicating Climate Through Podcasting," Mayborn School of Journalism. (November 20, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Negotiating Fandom Through a Black Lens: An Exploratory Study of Identity and Experience," Anthropology. (September 11, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, "More-Than-Human Anthropology: Resignifying the Meanings of Humanity and Nature from Epistemologies and Modes of Coexistence with the Earth," Other - Outside UNT. (April 8, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair, "Ara wa r’omi wa: a Way of Being in the World from the Perspective of Candomblé and the Tensions Around the Concept of Nature," Other - Outside UNT. (February 21, 2024).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair, "Cristopher Columbus and the U.S.," Anthropology. (February 3, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (February 1, 2024).
  • Other (Honors College Mentored Research), "Queer Ecology," Honors College. (January 16, 2024).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "Strange Fictions/Frictions: Relations with Spirits in the Tapajós River," Other - Outside UNT. (November 6, 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Building Bridges Through Cultural Arts Education: Perceptions of Cultural Identity in Teenage Cultural Arts Students," Anthropology. (January 27, 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (October 3, 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "An Ethnographic Study of Youth Environmental Volunteering," Anthropology. (September 20, 2022).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, Other - Outside UNT. (August 5, 2019).
  • Dissertation Committee Member, "The water warns it comes: ontological conflict and reflections about urban floodplains in Amazônia in a flood of the Jari river," Other - Outside UNT. (January 10, 2020 - 2025).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Property Management’s Conversations Surrounding Waste Solutions," Anthropology. (March 11, 2023 - September 22, 2024).
  • Supervised Research Chair, "Multispecies Ethnography and Non-Human Perception," Anthropology. (August 21, 2023 - April 2, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Yanomami Images: a Filmic Ethnography of “The Last Forest”," Other - Outside UNT. (January 15, 2024 - March 1, 2024).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Participatory Democracy in Water Management in River Basins in Ceará: A Study of Women's Participation and Contribution in The River Basin Committee of The Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022 - July 7, 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Bridging the Gap Between a Healthy Diet and Agroecology in General Pacheco, Argentina," Anthropology. (September 1, 2022 - May 11, 2023).
  • Dissertation Defense Committee Member, "The Limits of the Risk: The Fracking Problem in Brazil," Other - Outside UNT. (February 1, 2023 - March 31, 2023).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair, "Projected Socio-Ecological Effects of Indonesia’s New National Capital City Project in East Kalimantan, Borneo: Nusantara," Anthropology. (September 14, 2022 - December 2, 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Public Policy at the Chico Mendes Extractive Reserve: Analysis of the ‘Planted Forest’ Program in the Ramal da Torre Community – Epitaciolândia – Acre - 2014-2018," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022 - June 14, 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, "Analysis of Market Regularization in the Implementation of Payment of Environmental Services for Agroforestry Management in the Brazilian Amazon," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022 - June 14, 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, "Income Generation Through Quilombola Resistance: Processing of Açaí in the Gurupá community," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022 - June 14, 2022).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

    Book

  • Narahara, K. (2022). Em território mapuche: petroleiras e cosmopolíticas na Patagônia Argentina. 380. Rio de Janeiro, Ape'ku. https://www.amazon.com/território-mapuche-petroleiras-cosmopol%C3%ADticas-Portuguese-ebook/dp/B0B5W49FM3/ref=sr_1_1?crid=2OF4S7KVMCKEI&keywords=karine+narahara&qid=1673466856&sprefix=karine+narahara%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1

    • Book Chapter

  • Medeiros, C., Narahara, K. (2025). Um Rio-Ruína e a Síndrome do Ocidente (A River-Ruin and the West Syndrome). Niterói,

    • Foreword for a Book

  • Narahara, K. (2024). Prefácio (Foreword) for the Book No coração da Terra: As Controvérsias do Fracking no Brasil (In the Heart of the Earth: The Controversies of Fracking in Brazil). Rio de Janeiro,

    • Journal Article

  • Narahara, K., Tavares, I. (2022). Introduction (Invited Editor-Review article). 27 (3) 1-20. Londrina, State University of Londrina (Brazil).
  • Narahara, K., Cardoso, T. (2022). Introduction (Invited Editor-Review article). 14 (2) 8-18. São Carlos, São Paulo, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR). http://www.rau.ufscar.br/?p=1940

    • Scholarly Note

  • Acselrad, H., Narahara, K. (2024). No coração da terra (In the Heart of the Earth). https://aterraeredonda.com.br/no-coracao-da-terra/

    • Special Issue for an Academic Magazine

  • Narahara, K., Tavares, I. (2022). When The “Other” Is the Anthropologist: Reflections on Contemporary Ethnographic Productions. 27 (3) Londrina, State University of Londrina. https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/mediacoes/issue/view/1857
  • Narahara, K., Cardoso, T. (2022). Which Worlds in Ruins? The Anthropocene at Stake. 14 (2) 8-168. São Carlos, São Paulo, Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR). http://www.rau.ufscar.br/?p=1940

Presentations Given

    Invited Talk

  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), NSF Workshop Indigenous Knowledge Holders of the Mountains, Breathing with Volcanoes: Life and Cosmopolitics in Mapuche Territory., NSF, Purdue University, and Society of Ethnobiology (SoE), Reno, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 83rd College of Language Association Convention, A Book for My Great-grandmother – or Weaving History from Strands, College of Language Association, Vancouver, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Anthropology of the Environment Course, Petroleum Companies and Cosmopolitics in Mapuche Territory., University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Introduction to Sociocultural Anthropology Course, From Timber to Carbon Credit: Collaborating with Rubber Tapper Families in the Brazilian Amazon, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Voices of the Global South on the Anthropocene: Archaeological, Historical and Ancestral perspectives, Racializing the Anthropocene: Afro-Indigenous Crossings from South America, Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology, Jena, Germany. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), PPGSA Debates, Thinking with the Mapuche about Origin and Candomblé, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Brazil. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), UNT Black History Month, Afro-Brazilian Culture and Religions, Center for Belonging and Engagement, UNT Denton, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), ANTH 3400 - Peoples and Cultures of Africa, Candomblé and Afro-Brazilian Religions., Department of Anthropology, UNT Denton, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Grupo de Estudos em Avaliação de Impacto Ambiental – GEAIA, Indigenous Groups and the Intrinsic Limits of Environmental Impact Assessment, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil, Online, Brazil. (2023 - 2023).
  • Narahara, K. (Panelist), XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting - RAM, Thinking about Origin: Dialoguing with the Mapuche People, Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil. (2023 - 2023).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), PHIL 5000 - Environmental Ethics, Environmental Crises and Alterity, Department of Philosophy, UNT Denton, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Narahara, K. (Presenter), ANTH 5050 - Preparation for Practice and the Applied Thesis Course, Working for the Government and Collaborating with NGOs: a Brazilian Experience, Department of Anthropology, UNT Denton, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), SOCI 6702 - Environmental Sociology Course, Afro-Indigenous Encounters: New Possibilities for Environmental Anthropology, Department of Sociology, UNT Denton, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Course Dialogues About Nature, Cosmologies and Territories, Climate Racism and Environmental Crisis, Francisco Brennand Foundation, Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, Brazil (Online), Brazil. (2022 - 2022).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 3rd Meeting Ethnographies of Cono Sur, En territorio mapuche: petroleras y cosmopoliticas en la Patagonia argentina, Pontífica Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago de Chile (Online), Chile. (2022 - 2022).
  • Narahara, K. (Presenter), Fieldnotes: Conversation about Anthropological Research, Environmental Policy in South America: Working with Black, Afro-Indigenous and Native American Communities, Department of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).

    • Keynote/Plenary Address

  • Narahara, K.L. (Author & Presenter), Community Dinner, A Book to Ìyá Agripina: Afro-Brazilian Journeys in a Post-Slavery World, New Orleans-based Gulf South Open School (GSOS), New Orleans, United States of America. (2025).

    • Lecture

  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Tópicos em Filosofia Contemporânea (Topics in Contemporary Philosophy Course), Sobre meu encontro com os Mapuche (My Encounter with the Mapuche), Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (2024 - 2024).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 85th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, From Timber to Carbon Credit: Collaborating with Rubber Tapper Families in the Brazilian Amazon, Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Portland, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 34th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting, Thinking about Origin and Candomblé with the Mapuche: Afro-Indigenous Encounters and Modes of Recovering, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Multispecies in the House! New Possibilities for Applied Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting - RAM, Territorio es Conocimiento: Resistencia y Autonomia in la Patagonia Mapuche (Territory is Knowledge: Resistance and Autonomy in Mapuche Patagonia), Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Niterói, Brazil. (2023 - 2023).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), AAA Annual Meeting 2022, Petroleum Companies and Cosmopolitical Practices in Mapuche’s Territory, American Anthropological Association (AAA), Seattle (Online), United States of America. (2022 - 2022).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 34th Annual Cheikh Anta Diop International Conference, Environmental Crisis: Dialogues between Marimba Ani e Ailton Krenak, University of Temple, The Diopian Institute for Scholarly Advancement (DISA), Philadelphia, United States of America. (2022 - 2022).

    • Panel Presentation

  • Narahara, K. (Panelist), Panel Research in the Classroom, Anthropological Research into Teaching, Faculty of Success, UNT Denton, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).
  • Sanders, S.J. (Panelist), Narahara, K. (Panelist), Ybarra, P.S. (Panelist), Mondragon, R.S. (Panelist), Geldon, W.L. (Panelist), Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Moderator), In-CLASS Distinguished Faculty Series Talk, In-CLASS Distinguished Faculty Series Talk: Embodied Heritage, University of North Texas, United States of America. (2023 - 2023).

    • Scholarly Meeting Contribution

  • Narahara, K. (Discussant), Sabbatical Research Discussion, Ancestries of Enslavement: Race, Rememory & The Politics of Family History, College of Charleston, Charleston, United States of America. (2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Chair), dos Santos, A. (Co-Chair), XV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting, Session Chair, Brazilian Anthropology Association (RBA), Salvador, Brazil. (2025 - 2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Discussant), Seminario Permanente CAS/IDES, Discussant, Center of Social Science, Institute of Economic and Social Development (CAS/IDES), Buenos Aires (Online), Argentina. (2025 - 2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Discussant), 34th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting, Discussant, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. (2024 - 2024).

    • Webinar

  • Narahara, K. (Panelist), O Pensamento Afro-Centrado de Marimba Ani (The Afrocentered Thought of Marimba Ani), O Pensamento Afro-Centrado de Marimba Ani (The Afrocentred Thought of Marimba Ani), Universidade da Integração Internacional da Lusofonia Afro-Brasileira ( University of International Integration of Afro-Brazilian Lusofonia - UNILAB), São Francisco do Conde, Bahia, Brazil. (2024 - 2024).

Media Contributions

    Internet

  • "Whom is whom in the climate crisis?," Femigrantes BR Podcast. (April 28, 2024).
  • "TV UERJ Explains: Environmental Racism," State University of Rio de Janeiro TV - UERJ TV. (October 10, 2023).
  • "What Anthropology Can Tell Us about Climate Disaster?," The Lab - UNT. (January 23, 2023).

    • Magazine

  • "Em Rede - Perfis (In Network - Personal Profiles)," Revista Humanos (Humans Magazine). (July 2024).

    • Newspaper

  • "Anthrospective Newsletter," Anthrospective Newsletter. (October 2022).

    • Radio

  • "Program Awkin Kimvn," UNCo CALF University Radio. (August 19, 2024).
  • "Program Awkin Kimvn," UNCo CALF University Radio. (June 23, 2023).

    • TV

  • "Women and Girls in Science Week," Health Tv Channel, Oswaldo Cruz Foundation - Fiocruz (Brazil). (February 9, 2023).

Contracts, Grants, Sponsored Research

    Grant - Research

  • Narahara, K. (Principal), "Individual Mentoring Grant," sponsored by Faculty Success, University of North Texas, $1500 Funded. (2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award (SCA)," sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (2022 - 2023).

    • Grant - Teaching

  • Narahara, K. (Principal), Carey, C. (Supporting), Gualdron Ramirez, M. (Supporting), Carrington, J. (Supporting), "Afro-Brazilian Religions, Black Anthropologies, and Academic Diversity," sponsored by University of North Texas, University of North Texas, $2500 Funded. (2022 - 2023).

Service

University Service

  • Guest Speaker, CLASS Panel Spring 2023. (November 4, 2022 - Present).
  • Faculty Mentor, Graduate Student Association (GASA). (September 1, 2022 - Present).
  • Chairperson, Brasiliana Seminar. (August 20, 2024 - April 1, 2025).
  • Committee Member, Personnel Affair Committee (PAC). (February 5, 2025 - February 5, 2025).
  • Committee Member, Promotion and Tenure Committee. (August 14, 2024 - October 21, 2024).
  • Member, Black Faculty Network (BFN). (September 1, 2022 - September 10, 2024).
  • Committee Member, La Colectiva. (January 1, 2023 - July 30, 2024).
  • Committee Member, Graduate Admissions & Scholarships Committee. (September 1, 2023 - May 2024).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee - Department of Philosophy. (October 23, 2023 - February 2024).
  • Committee Member, Search Committee - Assistant Professor. (September 19, 2022 - December 2022).

Professional Service

  • Board of Advisors, Jornal de Economia Política e Desenvolvimento (Journal of Political Economy and Development). Maceió, Alagoas. (January 9, 2024 - Present).
  • Editor, Associate Editor, Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais. Londrina, Paraná. (August 1, 2023 - Present).
  • Reviewer, Journal Article, Revista Mediações. Londrina, Pará. (October 16, 2025 - October 18, 2025).
  • Committee Member, Scholarship Committee of the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA). Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. (April 8, 2024 - April 15, 2024).
  • Committee Chair, 84th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology. Santa Fe, (March 26, 2024 - March 26, 2024).
  • Editor, Guest Editor, Mediações - Revista de Ciências Sociais. Pelotas, Paraná. (July 15, 2022 - December 20, 2023).
  • Committee Chair, Reunião de Antropologia do Mercosul (XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting). Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. (January 15, 2023 - August 1, 2023).
  • Editor, Guest Editor, R@U - Revista de Antropologia da UFSCAR (R@U Anthropology Journal of UFSCAR). São Carlos, São Paulo. (March 2, 2022 - July 10, 2023).

Consulting

  • Government, UNT Dining Services, Denton, TX, United States of America. (August 29, 2023).