Sachi Sekimoto, Ph.D.

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Education:

• Ph.D. in Communication from University of New Mexico
• M.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, Northridge
• B.A. in Communication Studies from California State University, Northridge

Biography:

A native of Tokyo, Japan, Sachi is a Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication and Media at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Her research areas include sensory studies, phenomenology, and critical intercultural communication. She is a co-author of Race and the Senses: The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment (Routledge, 2020, with Christopher Brown), and a co-editor of Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader (Sage, 2016, with Kathryn Sorrells). Most recently, she was a guest co-editor of the journal Multimodality and Society for the special issue on race and multimodality (September 2023). She has written various articles and book chapters on issues related to the embodied politics of transnational gendered identity, the phenomenology of racialized embodiment, and intercultural communication in global contexts. She is currently working on a book project articulating the relationships among the senses, body, and environment in the context of ecological crisis and technological transformation from the perspective of multisensory communication.  

Recent Publications:

Sekimoto, S. & Brown, C. (2024). Knowing through the racialized senses. In P. Vannini (Ed.), The Routledge International Handbook of Sensory Ethnography (pp. 43-52). Routledge.

Sekimoto, S. (2024). Sensing race in the time of COVID-19. In T. Nakayama & R. T. Halualani (Eds.). The Handbook of Critical Intercultural Communication. (pp. Wiley-Blackwell.

Sekimoto, S. (2023). Rhythmic bodies: Sensorial multimodality, entrainment, and intercultural communication. In U. Schröder, E. Adami, & J. Dailey-O’Cain, Multimodal Communication in Intercultural Interaction (pp. 41-57). Routledge.

Sekimoto, S., & Brown, C. (2023). Race and multimodality: An introduction to the special issue. Multimodality & Society, 3(3). doi:10.1177/26349795231194806

Sekimoto, S. & Brown, C. (Routledge, 2020). Race and the Senses: The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment. London & New York: Routledge.

Sekimoto, S. (2018). Race and the senses: Toward articulating the sensory apparatus of race. Critical Philosophy of Race, 6(1), 82-100.

Brown, C., McCasland, B., Paris, M., & Sekimoto, S. (2018). Walking through Wakanda: A critical multimodal analysis of Afrofuturism in the Black Panther comic book. In O.O. Banjo (Ed.), Media across the African Diaspora: Content, Audiences, and Global Influence. New York: Routledge.

Brown, C. & Sekimoto, S. (2017). Engaging critical pedagogy in the classroom: A student-centered approach to advertising education. Journal of Advertising Education, 21(2), 18-24. doi:10.1177/109804821702100207

Sekimoto, S. (2017). Sensorial homecoming: A reflection on home, culture, and identity. In T. Yamamoto (Ed.), Direct Path to Detour (pp. 16-19). Portland: Container Corps.

Sekimoto, S. & Yajima, Y. (2017). The affective politics of the feminine: An interpassive analysis of Japanese female comedians. In S. Toyosaki & S. Eguchi (Eds.), Intercultural Communication in Japan: Theorizing Homogenizing Discourses (pp. 27-40). New York: Routledge.

Sorrells, K. & Sekimoto, S. (Eds.). (2016). Globalizing Intercultural Communication: A Reader. Los Angeles: Sage.

Sekimoto, S. & Brown, C. (2016). A phenomenology of the racialized tongue: Embodiment, language, and the bodies that speak. Departures in Critical Qualitative Research, 5(2), 101-122. doi:10.1525/dcqr.2016.5.2.101

Asante, G., Sekimoto, S. & Brown, C. (2016). Becoming Black: Exploring the racialized experiences of African immigrants in the United States. The Howard Journal of Communications, 27(4), 367-384. doi: 10.1080/10646175.2016.1206047