Dr. Karine Narahara
University of North Texas
Anthropology
(940) 565-3583
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Education

PhD, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 2019.
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: 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 (UFRJ), 2011.
Major: Anthropology
Dissertation Title: Between the Margin and the Center: Agroextractivism, Interchange, and Reciprocity in a Rubber State at Acre
BS, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), 2003.
Major: Biological Sciences

Licensures and Certifications

Ethics and Standards of Conduct, UNT. (December 20, 2023 – Present).

Ethics and Standards of Conduct, UNT. (November 28, 2022 – Present).

FERPA Training, UNT. (November 28, 2022 – Present).

UNT Policies & Title IX: Preventing Discrimination, Harassment, Sexual Misconduct & Retaliation, UNT. (November 28, 2022 – Present).

Social & Behavioral Research - Basic/Refresher, Collaborative Institutional Training Initiative (CITI). (December 19, 2022December 19, 2025).

Professional Memberships

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 Attended

Conference Attendance,"XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting - RAM," Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. (August 1, 2023August 4, 2023).

Conference Attendance,"2022 AAA Annual Meeting," American Anthropological Association, Seattle (Online), Washington, United States of America. (November 8, 2022November 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, 2022October 15, 2022).

Teaching

Teaching Experience

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

Directed Student Learning

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 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Co-Chair,"Candomblé: Imbrications between Sacred and Ecological Issues," Other - Outside UNT. (February 21, 2024 – Present).

Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair,"Cristopher Columbus and the U.S.," Anthropology. (February 3, 2024 – Present).

Other,"Queer Ecology," Honors College. (January 16, 2024 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member,"Strange F[r]ictions: relations with spirits in the margins of Medium and High Tapajós River," Other - Outside UNT. (November 6, 2023 – Present).

Supervised Research Chair,"Multispecies Ethnography and Non-Human Perception," Anthropology. (August 21, 2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (March 11, 2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (January 27, 2023 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (October 3, 2022 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (September 20, 2022 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory 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 – Present).

Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Other - Outside UNT. (August 5, 2019 – Present).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Yanomami Images: a Filmic Ethnography of “The Last Forest”.," Other - Outside UNT. (January 15, 2024March 1, 2024).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Participatory Democracy in Water Management in Hydrographic Basins in Ceará: A Case Ftudy of the Participation and Contribution of Women in the Hydrographic Basin Committee of the Metropolitan Region of Fortaleza," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022July 7, 2023).

Master's Thesis Committee Chair,"Bridging the Gap Between a Healthy Diet and Agroecology in General Pacheco, Argentina," Anthropology. (September 1, 2022May 11, 2023).

Dissertation Defense Committee Member,"The Limits of the Risk: The Fracking Problem in Brazil," Other - Outside UNT. (February 1, 2023March 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, 2022December 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, 2022June 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, 2022June 14, 2022).

Master's Thesis Committee Member,"Income Generation Through Quilombola’s Resistance: the Processing of Açaí Fruit in a Quilombola Community in Gurupá," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022June 14, 2022).

Research

Published Intellectual Contributions

Book
Narahara, K. (2022). In Mapuche’s Territory: Petroleum Companies and cosmopolitics in Argentinian Patagonia. 380. Rio de Janeiro: Ape's. 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
Journal Article
Narahara, K., Tavares, I. (2022). Dossier Presentation. 27(3), 1-20. Londrina: State University of Londrina (Brazil).
Narahara, K., Cardoso, T. (2022). Dossier Presentation. 14(2), 8-18. São Carlos, São Paulo: Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCAR). http://www.rau.ufscar.br/?p=1940
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), 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 – ).

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 – ).

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. (20242024).

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. (20232023).

Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Study Group on Environmental Impact Assessment, Indigenous Groups and the Intrinsic Limits of Environmental Impact Assessment, Federal University of Uberlândia (UFU), Brazil, Online, Brazil. (20232023).

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. (20232023).

Narahara, K. (Panelist), Spring CLASS Panel, Anthropological Reflections on the Notion of Embodied Heritage, CLASS, UNT Denton, United States of America. (20232023).

Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), PHIL 5000 - Environmental Ethics, Environmental Crises and Alterity, Department of Philosophy, UNT Denton, United States of America. (20232023).

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. (20222022).

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. (20222022).

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. (20222022).

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. (20222022).

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. (20222022).

Oral Presentation

Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), SfAA 84th Annual Meeting, Multispecies in the House! New Possibilities for Applied Anthropology, Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, United States of America. (20242024).

Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting - RAM, Territory is Knowledge: Resistance and Autonomy in Mapuche Patagonia, Federal Fluminense University (UFF), Niterói, Brazil. (20232023).

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. (20222022).

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. (20222022).

Panel Presentation

Narahara, K. (Panelist), Panel Research in the Classroom, Anthropological Research into Teaching, Faculty of Success, UNT Denton, United States of America. (20232023).

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. (20232023).

Scholarly Meeting Contribution

Narahara, K. (Discussant), 34th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting, Discussant, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG), Brazil. (2024 – ).

Nelson, A. S. (Chair), Narahara, K. (Co-Chair), SfAA 84th Annual Meeting, Co-chair, Society for Applied Anthropology (SfAA), Santa Fe, United States of America. (20242024).

Media Contributions

Internet
"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).
Newspaper
"Anthrospective Newsletter," Anthrospective Newsletter. (October 2022).
Radio
"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 and Sponsored Research

Grant - Research
Narahara, K. (Principal), "Scholarly and Creative Activity Award (SCA)," Sponsored by UNT, University of North Texas, $4000 Funded. (December 13, 2022July 31, 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. (November 4, 2022August 10, 2023).

Service

University Service

Committee Member, Search Committee - Department of Philosophy. (October 23, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Graduate Admissions & Scholarships Committee. (September 1, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, La Colectiva. (January 1, 2023 – Present).

Guest Speaker, CLASS Panel Spring 2023. (November 4, 2022 – Present).

Committee Member, Search Committee - Assistant Professor. (September 19, 2022 – Present).

Member, Black Faculty Network (BFN). (September 1, 2022 – Present).

Faculty Mentor, Graduate Student Association (GASA). (September 1, 2022 – Present).

Professional Service

Attendee, Meeting, Crossing Boundaries 2024, Jena, Jena. (June 24, 2024 – Present).

Board of Advisors, Journal of Political Economy and Development, Maceió, Alagoas. (January 9, 2024 – Present).

Editor, Associate Editor, Revista Mediações, Londrina, Paraná. (August 1, 2023 – Present).

Committee Member, Committee of the Sandwich Doctorate Program of the Graduate Program in Sociology and Anthropology (PPGSA), Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro. (April 8, 2024April 15, 2024).

Editor, Guest Editor, Revista Mediações, Pelotas, Paraná. (July 15, 2022December 20, 2023).

Committee Member, Reunião de Antropologia do Mercosul (XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting), Niterói, Rio de Janeiro. (January 15, 2023August 1, 2023).

Editor, Guest Editor, R@U - Revista de Antropologia da UFSCAR (R@U Anthropology Journal of UFSCAR), São Carlos, São Paulo. (March 2, 2022July 10, 2023).

Consulting

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