UK Department of Sociology

Keiko Tanaka

Assistant Professor, Department of Community and Leadership Development
Ph.D., 1997, Michigan State University
704 Garrigus
(859) 257-7574
1575 Patterson Office Tower
(859) 257-6891
email: ktanaka@uky.edu

Professor Tanaka's interests include social transformations of the agrifood systems, social impact of science, political economy of international development, and transformations of East Asian societies. Her on-going research projects examine: (a) the role of agricultural science in reconfiguring the relationship between production and consumption in the global context, (b) development and transformation of the muscle food industry in Kentucky, and (c) public concerns with the process of regulating genetic engineering. Dr. Tanaka's publications appear in Rural Sociology, Sociologia Ruralis, Southeast Asian Journal of Social Sciences, and Science, Technology, and Human Values.