Curriculum Vitae
Keith K. Miyake
Assistant Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Riverside
kmiyake@ucr.edu
https://keithmiyake.info
Updated 2023
Education
Ph.D., Earth and Environmental Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York (CUNY), New York, NY
2016
Dissertation Title: “Institutionalizing Environmental Justice: A Geographical History of Environmental Impact Assessment”
Dissertation Chair: Ruth Wilson Gilmore
Dissertation Committee Members: Rupal Oza, Tom Angotti
B.S., Engineering, Harvey Mudd College, Claremont, CA
2004
Graduated with High Distinction, Concentration in Asian American Studies
Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
“The Art of Reimagining Borders in Patricia Vázquez Gómez’s BorderXer”
(under review)
Miyake, Keith K.
“Carceral Jaguar Geographies along the US/México border and the Case for Border Abolition”
(2023)
Miyake, Keith K. Local Environment. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2023.2206641
“The racial environmental state and abolition geography in California’s Central Valley.”
2021
Miyake, Keith K. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. 39(4):590–608. http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/02637758211025985.
“Not just a walk in the park: Methodological improvements for determining environmental justice implications of park access in New York City for the promotion of physical activity.”
2010
Miyake, Keith K., A.R. Maroko, K.L. Grady, J.A. Maantay, and P.S. Arno. Cities and the Environment. 3(1):article 8. http://digitalcommons.lmu.edu/cate/vol3/iss1/8. 17 pp.
Presentations
Invited Lectures
“Abolitionist Border Ecologies: Jaguar and Migrant Entanglements along the US/México Border”
2022
Department of Botany and Plant Sciences, University of California, Riverside
“‘Joining Forces’ to Build Relationships and Change Everything”
2022
School of Medicine Structural Competency Conference: “How We Heal: Advocating for Environmental Justice in Medicine,” University of California, Riverside
“Environmental Law and the Racial Environmental State”
2017
Interdisciplinary Research Seminar Series, Aoki Center for Critical Race and Nation Studies, University of California, Davis
“Police, Pollution, and Prisons: Environmental Justice and the Racial Environmental State”
2016
Colloquium Speaker, Environmental Studies Program, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA
Conference Presentations
“Jaguars and the Case for More-Than-Human Border Abolition”
2023
American Association of Geographers Annual Conference
“Asian/American Geographies”
2022
American Association of Geographers, Virtual
“Borders, Conservation, Coloniality, and the Nonhuman”
2021
Asian American Studies Association, Virtual
“Tracing the ‘Subject(s)’ of Revolt, Insurgency, Revolution…”
2021
American Studies Association, Virtual
“Reterritorializing Race: Borders, Migrants, Coloniality, and the Nonhuman”
2021
American Studies Association, Virtual
“Abolition and the Limits of the Racial Environmental State”
2018
Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Vancouver, BC
“California State of Racial Capitalism” (Panelist)
2018
Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Vancouver, BC
“Environmental Justice, Abolition, and the Racial Environmental State”
2018
Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA
“Critical Race Theory and the Future of Geography in the Classroom” (Panelist)
2018
Association of American Geographers, New Orleans, LA
“Ecologies of Resistance Within and Against the State”
2018
Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA
“Environmental Injustice, Racial Capitalism, and the State, Oh My!”
2017
Association of American Geographers, Boston, MA
“Carceral Environments and the Racial Environmental State”
2015
American Studies Association, Toronto, ON
“Racializing Environmental Policy: Urban Renewal and the National Environmental Policy Act”
2015
Association of American Geographers, Chicago, IL
“The Present and Future of the Digital Graduate Center” (Panelist)
2014
The CUNY Integrative Technology Conference, New York, NY
“Surviving or Thriving: Asian American Studies at CUNY” (Invited Panelist)
2013
Asian American/Asian Research Institute (AARI) Annual Conference, New York, NY
“Encountering Empire in Environmental Epistemologies”
2013
Critical Ethnic Studies Association, Chicago, IL
“A Biopolitics of Place: The Institutionalization of Environmental Justice”
2013
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA
“Geography Towards Revolution: in Honor of Professor Neil Smith” (Panel organizer and discussant)
2013
Association of American Geographers, Los Angeles, CA
“U.S. Empire and the Institutionalization of Environmental Knowledge”
2013
Association for Asian American Studies, Seattle, WA
“Myths & Realities for Asian Pacific American Faculty & Students” (Invited Panelist)
2012
CUNY Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Conference, New York, NY
“Critical Reflections on Environmental Impact Assessment”
2012
Association of American Geographers, New York, NY
“Fostering Student-Based Media: A Look at the OpenCUNY.org Academic Medium” (Panelist)
2011
The CUNY Integrative Technology Conference, Annual Conference, New York, NY
“Radical Pedagogy in the Classroom: A view from the graduate student” (Panelist)
2010
Association of American Geographers, Washington, D.C.
“The Relationship between Park Accessibility and Socio-demographic Factors in New York City: A Mixed-Methods Assessment of Park Accessibility” (Poster presentation)
2010
CUNY Nature, Ecology, and Society Annual Colloquium, New York, NY
Grants and Fellowships
Fellowships
Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellowship, University of California, Davis
2016–2018
American Studies Department
Faculty Mentor: Julie Sze
Graduate Center Digital Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2013–2016
Funding to assist students, faculty, and research centers with digital humanities projects.
Center for Place, Culture and Politics Dissertation Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2013–2014
Dissertation writing fellowship and seminar on “Remaking Worlds: Insurgencies, Revolutions, Utopias.”
Provost’s Office University Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2012
Supplemental stipend for digital humanities work involving The Graduate Center, CUNY research centers.
Enhanced Chancellor’s Fellowship, The Graduate Center, CUNY
2009–2014
Five-year merit award including tuition and stipend.
Research Grants
The Graduate Center, CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative Knickerbocker Award
2013
Funding for archival research in American Studies.
The Graduate Center, CUNY Advanced Research Collaborative Summer Research Grant
2012
Research and travel grant to participate in the Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory.
Teaching Experience
Undergraduate Courses
- Introduction to Ethnic Studies
- Introduction to Asian American Studies
- Introduction to Geography
- Race and Environment: Nature, Colonialism, and Justice
- Theory in Asian American Studies
- The US Prison Industrial Complex
Graduate Courses
- Racial Capitalism
- Sociocultural Theories in Ethnic Studies
- Race and State Violence
- Race, Environment, Resistance
Additional Teaching Experience
Harvey Mudd College Upward Bound, La Jolla, CA
2005
High School Teacher and Resident Advisor
Courses: Geometry, Pre-Calculus, and Calculus
Taught intensive summer math sessions and served as an advisor to students in biomedical and life science internships at Scripps Research Institute, Sea World, UC San Diego, and a VA Hospital.
North Park Middle School, Pico Rivera, CA
2004
Middle School Teacher
Courses: Algebra 1 and Life Science (7th Grade)
Etiwanda High School, Etiwanda, CA
2004
Student Teacher
Courses: Algebra 1 and Geometry
Other Professional Experience
GC Digital Fellow
2013–2016
Digital Scholarship Lab, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Part of the The Graduate Center, CUNY Digital Humanities Initiative. Responsibilities include leading workshops, advising students and faculty in digital humanities praxis, collaborating on digital scholarly projects, and supporting digital initiatives throughout the university.
Graduate Assistant and Web Developer
2010–2013
The Center for Place, Culture and Politics, and Mellon Committees on Globalization and Social Change, Science Studies, and the Study of Religion, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Responsibilities included organizing lectures and symposia, digital video production, web development, and other administrative tasks.
Freelance GISc Consultant
2009–2013
North Star Fund, New York, NY
Responsibilities included developing web- and print-based maps of power outages and the resulting projects funded through a legal settlement.
Project website: https://kaymmm.github.io/GreeningWesternQueens
Senior Staff Engineer
2006–2010
ARCADIS-US (formerly LFR, Inc.), Costa Mesa, CA
Responsibilities included designing and monitoring environmental remediation systems, oversight of field operations and technical staff, project management, and maintaining and developing environmental data collection and storage systems.
Co-Founder and Educational Director
2005–2006
Prodigy Learning Studio, Beijing, China
After-school educational enrichment and activity center startup. Responsibilities included general business operations, developing educational curricula, publicity and outreach, and investor relations.
Development and Research Assistant
2001–2002
Asian Pacific Community Fund, Los Angeles, CA
Responsibilities included conducting community health-needs assessments, grant writing and reporting, and developing client relation management database.
Workshops and Resource Guides
Introduction to Programming with Python
2015
Basics of using the Python programming language including syntax, structure, and build environments. Announcement.
Digital Storytelling with Maps: CartoDB
2015
Introduction to the use of CartoDB for basic GIS. Workshop and online tutorial cover data management and creating various types of maps. Announcement and online tutorial.
Introduction to the Command Line
2014
Digital scholarship workshop on basic use of the command line (shell). Announcement and handout.
Introduction to DHBox
2014
Digital scholarship workshop introducing the DHBox (Digital Humanities in a Box) teaching and learning suite.
Digital Storytelling Using StoryMaps
2014
Digital scholarship workshop introducing the use of basic thematic maps to visualize data using the ESRI StoryMaps platform. Announcement
Github for Everyone: Intro to Git and Tracked Online Collaborative Development
2013, 2014
Digital scholarship workshop introducing the basics of online collaborative development software using Git and the Github platform. Announcement and Resource Guide
Introduction to Cloud Storage and Data Management
2013, 2014
Digital scholarship workshop on using cloud storage and other digital tools for data management and other scholarly activities. Announcement and Resource Guide
Organizing Your Research with Zotero and Mendeley
2013, 2014
Workshop on the basics of setting up and using Zotero and Mendeley Desktop citation management software for research and writing. Announcement and Resource Guide
Professional Affiliations
- Association for Asian American Studies
- Association of American Geographers
- American Studies Association
- Critical Ethnic Studies Association