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Research Interests & Work in Progress

• Food Geographies
• Culinary Culture
• Cosmopolitanism
• Race and racism

Teaching Interests & Responsibilities

• Urban Geography
• Spaces of Multiraciality: Critical Mixed Race Theory
• Current Topics in Human Geography
• Local Geographies of Globalization
• Supervised Research Project

Affiliations

• CAG, member

Awards & Grants

• 2001-2008 Queen’s University Graduate Award
• 2001-2008 Queen’s University Department of Geography Merit Award
• 2003-2004 National Association of Japanese Canadians SEAD Scholarship

Publications

• 2010 Tanaka, Shaun. Review of Modern Japanese Cuisine: Food, Power and National Identity, by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka. London: Reaktion Books 2006. 240 pp. Food & Foodways
• 2009 Tanaka, Shaun. Chopsticks and California Rolls: Constructing Identity and Authenticity in Toronto’s Japanese Restaurants
• 2006 Consuming the Oriental Other, Constructing the Cosmopolitan Canadian: Reinterpreting Japanese Culinary Culture in Toronto’s Japanese Restaurants, Food Systems and Food Security in the 21st Century, Canadian Association for Food Studies Conference, June.
• 2004 Kosaten, Japanese Social Services The Japan Foundation Seminar Series, August