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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 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, 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, 3 courses.
  • ANTH 4900 - Special Problems, 4 courses.
  • ANTH 5031 - Ethnographic and Qualitative Methods, 2 courses.
  • ANTH 5400 - Environmental Anthropology, 6 courses.
  • ANTH 5900 - Special Problems, 1 course.
  • ANTH 5950 - Applied Thesis, 2 courses.

Directed Student Learning

  • Dissertation Committee Member, "TBD," Mayborn School of Journalism. (November 20, 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, "Candomblé: Imbrications between Sacred and Ecological Issues," Other - Outside UNT. (February 21, 2024).
  • Undergraduate Honors Thesis Chair, "Cristopher Columbus and the U.S.," Anthropology. (February 3, 2024).
  • Other (Honors College Mentored Research), "Queer Ecology," Honors College. (January 16, 2024).
  • 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).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (March 11, 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Member, Anthropology. (January 27, 2023).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (October 3, 2022).
  • Master's Thesis Committee Chair, Anthropology. (September 20, 2022).
  • 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).
  • Doctoral Advisory Committee Member, Other - Outside UNT. (August 5, 2019).
  • 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 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, 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’s Resistance: the Processing of Açaí Fruit in a Quilombola Community in Gurupá," Other - Outside UNT. (March 1, 2022 - June 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), College Language Association Convention, TBD, Vancouver, United States of America. (2025 - 2025).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), Anthropology of the Environment Course, TBD, University of Southern California (USC), Los Angeles, United States of America. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 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), Roda de Conversa: O Pensmento Afro-centrado de Marimba Ani (Conversation Circle: Marimba Ani’s Afro-centered Thought), Marimba Ani, Outridade e o Pensamento Ocidental (Marimba Ani, Otherness and the Western Thought), University for International Integration of the Afro-Brazilian Lusophony (UNILAB), Brazil (Online), Brazil. (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), 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), Study Group on Environmental Impact Assessment, 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. (Panelist), Spring CLASS Panel, Anthropological Reflections on the Notion of Embodied Heritage, CLASS, UNT Denton, United States of America. (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).

    • Oral Presentation

  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), 34th Brazilian Anthropology Meeting, Thinking about Origin and Candomblé with the Mapuche: Afro-Indigenous Encounters and Modes of Recuperación, Brazilian Association of Anthropology (ABA), Belo Horizonte, Brazil. (2024).
  • 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. (2024 - 2024).
  • Narahara, K. (Author & Presenter), XIV Mercosur Anthropology Meeting - RAM, 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), 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. (2024 - 2024).

Media Contributions

    Internet

  • "No coração da terra (In the Earth's Heart)," A Terra é Redonda (The Earth is Rounded). (October 14, 2024).
  • "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), "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).
  • 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

  • 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, 2024 - April 15, 2024).
  • Editor, Guest Editor, Revista Mediações. Pelotas, Paraná. (July 15, 2022 - December 20, 2023).
  • Committee Member, 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).