Karen Aki Senaga 0710 Old Main Logan, UT (336)

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1 Karen Aki Senaga 0710 Old Main Logan, UT (336) PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT 2016 Current Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Utah State University EDUCATION 2016 Ph.D., History, Dissertation: Tasteless, Cheap, and Southern? The Rise and Decline of the Farm-Raised Catfish Industry Committee: James Giesen, Jason Morgan Ward, Mark Hersey, Alison Colis Greene Fields: Early U.S. History, Modern U.S. History, African American History, Agricultural, Environmental, and Rural History 2011 M.A., History, Fields: Early U.S. History, Modern U.S. History, Comparative Race Relations (U.S. South, Latin America, South Africa) 2008 B.A., History, University of North Carolina at Greensboro 2008 B.A., African American Studies, University of North Carolina at Greensboro PUBLICATIONS Muddy to Clean: The Farm-Raised Catfish Industry and Development of Aquaculture Science and Food Technologies in New Materials edited by Amy Slaton (under review with Lever Press) Catfish Image, Catfish Taste: The Land-Grant System and the Development of Catfish Aquaculture in Mississippi, Journal of Mississippi History 73, no.1 (2013): CURRENT PROJECTS Working on manuscript entitled Tasteless, Cheap, and Southern: A History of the Farm-Raised Catfish AWARDS AND HONORS 2017 Finalist, C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Prize, Southern Historical Association 2015 Donald Zacharias Graduate Teaching Assistant Award Nominee, Mississippi State University 2014 John F. and Jeanne A. Marszalek Lecture Prize for Best Paper in Jacksonian, Civil War and Reconstruction, or Race Relations History 2014 William Parrish Graduate Teaching Assistant of the Year, Department of History, 2013 George Robson Award for Best Graduate Student Paper, Department of History,

2 FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS Dissertation Fellowship for Underrepresented Scholars, South Dakota State University Augustana College Diversity Fellows Program, Augustana College, (declined) 2015 National Science Foundation Travel Grant to the American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting Travel Assistance Grant for Graduate Students, Office of the Graduate School, 2014 Envirotech Travel Grant (sole grantee), special interest group of the Society for the History of Technology 2013 Southern Foodways Alliance Diversity Scholarship, University of Mississippi 2013 Women s Club Scholarship 2013 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr., Travel Grant, Business History Conference Graduate Student Travel Grant, Agricultural History Society James W. Garner Scholarship, Graduate Teaching Assistantship, PRESENTATIONS 2018 The Catfish Wars: Trade, Inspections, and Labeling in the American and Vietnamese Aquaculture Industries Since 2001, Agricultural History Society, St. Petersburg, FL, May 23 to May 26, Eating Poisoned Catfish: Food Justice and the Triana DDT Case, , American Society for Environmental History, Riverside, CA, March 14-18, Mississippi Delta, Mekong Delta: Water, Environment, and the Farm-Raised Catfish Industry, Southern Historical Association Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL, November 2-5, Tasting Behaviors and Habitats: The Sensory and Environmental History of the Farm- Raised Fish Industry, American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, March 30-April 3, Oppressive Tastes: Farmers, Workers, and the Catfish Aquaculture Industry, Southeastern Division of the Association for American Geographers Annual Meeting, Pensacola, FL, November 22-24, The Taste of Labor: Farmers, Workers, and Farm-Raised Catfish Production, Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, Lexington, KY, June 4-6, From Conservation Boon to Ecological Blight? Environmental Policy and the Rise of the Farm-Raised Catfish Industry, American Society for Environmental History Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., March 18-22, 2015

3 2014 Muddy to Clean: The Farm-Raised Catfish Industry and Development of Aquaculture Science and Food Technologies, Society for the History of Technology Annual Meeting, Dearborn, MI, November 6-9, The Cat s Nine Lives: Southern Culture, Marketing, and the Farm-Raised Catfish, Redefining the Welcome Table: Inclusion and Exclusion in American Foodways, William Winter Institute and the Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi, September 25-26, 2014, Oxford, MS 2014 Visions of Economic Uplift: Black Farmers, Catfish Aquaculture, and Rural Poverty, Agricultural History Society Annual Meeting, June 19-22, 2014, Provo, UT 2014 Catfish as Savior? Aquaculture, the Office of Economic Opportunity, and Efforts to End Rural Poverty in the South, Southern Forum on Agricultural, Rural, and Environmental History (SFARE), March 28-29, 2014, Rollins College, Winter Park, FL 2014 Engineering Catfish: Aquaculture, Land-Grant Research, and the Pursuit of Taste and a New Image, Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science (WHEATS), February 7-9, 2014, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2013 Marketing Farm-Raised Catfish: Aquaculture, Flavor, and the Environment, Agricultural History Society Annual Conference, June 12-15, 2013, Banff, AB 2013 The Pristine and the Polluted: Marketing, Flavor, and the Environment in the Farm- Raised Catfish Industry, Business History Conference Annual Meeting, March 21-23, 2013, Columbus, OH 2013 From Plantation to the Plant, It s the Same Operation : Labor Relations, Memory, and Race in the Mississippi Delta Catfish Industry, Southern Labor Studies Association, March 7-9, 2013, New Orleans, LA, Panel Organizer, Between the Old South and the New: Race and Labor in the Agro-Industrial South 2013 It's Like Being Back on the Plantation : Memory, Race, Power, and the Delta Pride Catfish Processors Strike, University of Alabama Graduate Student History Conference on Power and Struggle, March 1-2, 2013, Tuscaloosa, AL 2011 They Don t Believe in Mixing : Rurality, Localism, and Chinese Integration of White Delta Schools, Agricultural History Society Annual Conference, Springfield, IL, June 15-18, The College Press is the Only Press Telling the Truth about Race : Campus Media and the Integration of the University of Mississippi, Student Activism Southern Style Conference, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, March 19-21, 2010

4 INVITED TALKS 2014 Tasteless, Cheap, and Southern? The Rise and Decline of the Farm-Raised Catfish Industry, Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) Symposium, May 21-22, 2014, Starkville, MS 2012 Catfish Image, Catfish Taste: The Land-Grant System and the Development of Catfish Aquaculture in Mississippi, Thinking Land Grants: A Cerebration of the 150 th Anniversary of the Morrill Land-Grant Act,, October 3-6, 2012 OTHER PUBLICATIONS 2017 Review of Marianne Elisabeth Lien, Becoming Salmon: Aquaculture and the Domestication of a Fish in Agricultural History 91, 1 (Winter 2017): Review of William Thomas Okie, The Georgia Peach: Culture, Agriculture, and Environment in the American South for Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 17, 1 (January 2018): Review of Charles Eagles, Civil Rights Culture Wars: The Fight Over a Mississippi Textbook for Journal of African American History (submitted) TEACHING EXPERIENCE Present Utah State University, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Undergraduate Teaching: Modern United States History Environmental History The Civil Rights Movement Growing, Cooking, Eating: The History of Food in America Graduate Teaching: Directed Readings in Agricultural History Experiential Learning Projects Civil Rights Pilgrimage April 2018: King s Road, Co-Facilitator with Dr. Jason Gilmore (Communications) and Dr. François Dengah (Anthropology). With 5 USU students, took a week-long trip through the Deep South to study and reflect on the history and legacies of Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement. Co-taught an accompanying course throughout the spring of Utah State University, Eastern-Blanding, Instructor Undergraduate Teaching:

5 American Institutions South Dakota State University, Dissertation Fellow Undergraduate Teaching: Modern United States History Oral History Theory and Practice , Teaching Assistant/Instructor Instructor of Record Modern U.S. History Mississippi History Mississippi Delta Agricultural and Food History, Iraqi Young Leaders Exchange Program, theme: Food Security Modern Western World (online) US Environmental History (online) The New South (online) Experiential Learning Projects Mississippi Delta History Service Alternative Spring Break Course, Spring 2014: Taught a course on the history of the Mississippi Delta throughout the spring semester and accompanied 25 students to the Mississippi Delta for an alternative Spring Break trip. We engaged in various service projects and traveled through the Delta to study the region s history. Graduate Teaching Assistant Modern United States History Early United States History Race in the Work Place (Online) OTHER PROFESSIONAL EMPLOYMENT Administrative Assistant, Agricultural History Society Graduate Assistant for Center for the History of Agriculture, Science, and the Environment of the South (CHASES) 2012 Intern, Ulysses S. Grant Presidential Library SERVICE 2018 Textbook Reviewer for Bedford/St. Martin s Co-Facilitator of the USU Civil Rights Pilgrimage History Department Development Committee, Utah State University History Department Scholarship Committee, Utah State University Co-founder and Coordinator of the CHASES Experiment Station Workshops, WORKSHOPS

6 2018 Facilitator, Allies on Campus Training, Utah State University 2017 Participant, Allies on Campus Training, Utah State University 2015 Participant, Safe Zone Training, 2015 Participant, Summer Institute: Standards in Society, Drexel University, July 12-25, Animals in History Graduate Student Workshop, Lexington, KY, June 3, Engineering Catfish: Aquaculture, Land-Grant Research, and the Pursuit of Taste and a New Image, Workshop for the History of Environment, Agriculture, Technology and Science (WHEATS), February 7-9, 2014, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS 2013 Oral History Workshop, Southern Foodways Alliance, University of Mississippi, May 28-31, 2013 MEDIA 2018 King s Road: Where Do We Go From Here? co-wrote three episodes for the series with five USU students and two faculty members for Utah Public Radio. Aired between April 1 and April 30, Interview on Labor History Today for Union City Radio. Aired June 24, 2018.