Sachiko Tankei-Aminian, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, Department of Communication and Philosophy

Sachiko Tankei-Aminian (Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Philosophy at Florida Gulf Coast University. She teaches and studies primarily intercultural and interracial communication and critical race theory. Her current areas of research include cultural adaptation, intercultural identity, and the concept of privilege in relation to issues of race and racism. She uses various methods in her scholarly work, such as personal narrative, autoethnography, performance, and filmmaking. Her recent publications appear in Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (2016), Case Studies in Intercultural Dialogue (2015) (co-authored book chapter), Liminalities: A Journal of Performance Studies (2013), and A Forum on Language and Communication (2011).

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2009

M.S., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2000

M.A., Aichi University of Education, Japan, 1996

B.A., Aichi University of Education, Japan, 1994