College of Arts and Sciences

Assistant Professor
Phone: (239)590-7895
E-Mail: stankeia@fgcu.edu
Office: LIB 454

M.S., Southern Illinois University Carbondale, 2000
M.A., Aichi University of Education, Japan, 1996
B.A., Aichi University of Education, Japan, 1994

Primary Teaching Interests: Intercultural Communication, Race and Communication

Other interests: Acculturation and Intercultural Identity, Performance Ethnography, Autoethnoraphy, Critical Pedagogy

Sachiko Tankei-Aminian specializes in intercultural communication and race and communication. She joined the Florida Gulf Coast University Communication faculty in 2007. She is currently a doctoral candidate in Speech Communication at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. She studies immigrants/sojourners’ acculturation, with particular interests in how societal forces influence their acculturation. As being an immigrant herself, she examines her own acculturation and engages in an autoethnographic performance called On Becoming Japerican. She originally compiled, wrote, directed, and performed On Becoming Japerican for the Kleinau Theatre at Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 2004. Over the past three years she has performed over 10 times at universities and in conferences, engaging in open-dialogue with the audience about issues of acculturation, intercultural identities, and issues of power and oppression.