Keynote Speaker

Dr. Thomas K. Nakayama is a professor in the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication and former director of Asian Pacific American Studies at Arizona State University. His research is focused on developing critical approaches to intercultural communication and public communication. Dr. Nakayama is a fellow of the International Academy of Intercultural Research, a former Fulbright Scholar at the Université de Mons-Hainaut in Belgium, and was on the Board of Directors of the Arizona Humanities Council. He currently serves on the editorial boards of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, the International and Intercultural Communication Annual, Journal of Intercultural Communication Research, and the Western Journal of Communication. The title of Dr. Nakayama's presentation is "The Melancholia of Whiteness."