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Department of Communication Studies
Etsuko Kinefuchi
Assistant Professor
Office: 105 Ferguson Building
Phone: 336-334-5297
Degrees:
- Ph.D., Arizona State University
- M.A., Oregon State University
- B.A., Oregon State University
Scholarly interests:
Cultural identity development and negotiation, interethnic and interracial relationships, Intersection of identity sites, multiculturalism and pedagogy, transnationalism and diaspora, immigrant and refugee adaptation, building intercultural alliances.
Courses taught:
- CST 200 Communication and Community
- CST 399 Communication Research Methods
- CST 337 Intercultural Communication
- CST 602 Engaging Communication Research Methodology
- CST 635 Identity, Culture, and Communication
Recent publications:
Kinefuchi, E. (forthcoming 2010). Finding home in migration: Montagnard refugees and post-migration identity. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication.
Kinefuchi, E. (forthcoming 2010). Layers of Nikkei: Japanese diaspora and World War II. In Rona T. Halualani and Thomas K. Nakayama (Ed.), The Blackwell Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. Blackwell. (Invited contribution).
Kinefuchi, E. (2009). Challenges of E pluribus unum: Ethnic and racial diversity and public policy. In E. E. Peterson (Eds.), Communication and Public Policy: Proceedings of the 2008 International Colloquium on Communication (pp. 45-54). Digital Library and Archives, University Libraries, Virginia Tech. Available at: http://scholar.lib.vt.edu/ejournals/ICC/2008/
Kinefuchi, E. (2009). From authenticity to geographies: Unpacking Japaneseness in the construction of Nikkeijin identity. In L.A. Flores, B. J. Allen, & M. P. Orbe (Eds.), Intercultural communication in a transnational world (International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 31) (pp. 91-119). (National Communication Association publication)
Kinefuchi, E. (2009). Challenges of ethnic and racial diversity: Dominant narratives and public policy. Urgent Problems of Communication and Culture, Vol. 8, Pyatigorsk, Russia: Pyatigorsk State Linguistic University.
Kinefuchi, E. & Orbe, M. P. (2008). Situating oneself in racialized world: Understanding student reactions to Crash through standpoint theory and context-positionality frame. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 1(1), 70-90.
Kinefuchi, E. (2008). What’s (not) in a Label?: Understanding Korean American Adoptee Identity through Self-Identified Labels. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, & E. R. McDaniel (eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (12th ed.) (pp. 104-115). Belmont, CA: Thompson.
Orbe, M. P. & Kinefuchi, E. (2008). Crash under investigation: Engaging complications of complicity, coherence, and implicature through critical analysis. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 25(2), 135-156.
Fujimoto, E. (2002). Japaneseness, whiteness, and the Other in Japan’s Internationalization. In M. J. Collier (Ed.), Internationalization, culture, and communication: International and Intercultural Communication Annual, 24 (pp. 1-24). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Fujimoto, E. (2002). South Korean Adoptees Growing Up in White America: Negotiating Race and Culture. In J. Martin, T. K. Nakayama, & L. A. Flores (Eds.), Readings in cultural contexts (2nd ed) (pp. 266-275). Mountain View, CA: Mayfield Publishing.
Service:
- Study Abroad Committee, UNCG, member
- Inclusive Community Task Force, UNCG, member
- Scholarship Committee, Communication Studies Dept. chair
- Journal of International and Intercultural Communication Editorial Board
- International and Intercultural Communication Annual, vol. 31 Editorial Board
- National Communication Association member
- National Communication Association, Asian Pacific American Communication Studies Division Chair, 2005