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TAZIN KARIM DANIELS

355 Baker Hall Department of Anthropology Michigan State University
655 Auditorium Drive East Lansing, MI 48824
(714) 519-1221 karimtaz@msu.edu www.tazindaniels.com
CURRENT POSITIONS
2015-present
2015-present
2012-present

Instructor for ANP 270: Women and Health from an International Perspective
Consultant on Youth, Tobacco & Social Media Research Project, PI: Juliet Lee, PIRE
Chair of Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Study Group, Society for Medical Anthropology

EDUCATION
2010-present
2006-2009
2002-2005

Ph.D., Anthropology, Michigan State University, defense: April 2016

M.A., Anthropology, Michigan State University
B.A., Anthropology, University of California, Irvine

EXTERNAL GRANTS
2011

$19,250: Dissertation Fieldwork Grant, Wenner-Gren Foundation

FELLOWSHIPS
2014
2013
2012
2012
2011

$3,750: Course Development Fellowship in CIS-General Science, MSU

$1,000: Foundations of Science Course Development Fellowship, The Gates Foundation
$6,000: Cultural Heritage Informatics Fellowship, MSU
$3,000: Disciplinary Leadership Fellowship, The Graduate School, MSU
$5,000: Course Development Fellowship in Anthropology, MSU

HONORS AND AWARDS

2015
2013-14
2012
2010
2009

Certification in College Teaching, MSU School of Social Science

Preparing Future Faculty for the Assessment of Student Learning Fellow, MSU
Ron Hart Award for Outstanding Teaching, MSU Department of Anthropology
Teaching Award, MSU Center for Integrative Studies in General Science
Learning Leader Award, CIS-General Science, MSU Department of Residence Life

PREVIOUS TEACHING EXPERIENCE

2012-2015
2013-2015
2015
2014
2013
2013
2010-2014
2011

Instructor for ANP 204: Introduction to Medical Anthropology

Assessment Research Coordinator: Centers for Integrative Studies, MSU
Instructor for ANP 370: Culture, Health and Illness
Curriculum Developer: ISB 204: Applications in Biomedical Sciences
Developer/Consultant: Foundations of Science MOOC, Centers for Integrative Studies
Teaching Assistant: Cultural Heritage Informatics Field School in Data Visualization
Online Course Assistant/Developer (10 courses), Department of Anthropology, MSU
Instructor/Co-developer: ANP 201: Introduction to Sociocultural Diversity, MSU

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2009
2008-2010
2006-2009

Course Supervisor (35 sections): ISB 208L: Applications in Biological Sciences

Mentor/Facilitator: Teaching Assistant Program
Instructor: ISB 208L: Applications in Biology, MSU

PUBLICATIONS
Daniels, Tazin Karim and Chelsea Stockman. 2014. Cycling and Performance Enhancing Drugs. Sage
Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society. (accepted)
Daniels, Tazin Karim and Chelsea Stockman. 2014. Performance Enhancement in Sports. Sage
Encyclopedia of Pharmacology and Society. (accepted)
Karim, Tazin. 2013. Teaching Anthropology in the Digital Age. General Anthropology. Volume 20 (1).
Spring 2013. Pg: 1-9
Karim, Tazin. 2013. The @Adderall_RX Girl: Pharmaceutical Self-branding and Identity in Social
Media. Ethnography Matters.
Karim, Tazin 2013. Practical Training for the Digitally Il/literate Anthropologist. Savage Minds.
Karim, Tazin. 2013. #Adderall: Positionality and Ethics in Social Science Research. Savage Minds.
Karim, Tazin. 2013. The Commodification of Celebrity Health. The Anthropologies Project.
Karim, Tazin. 2013. Passing with Pills: Redefining Performance in the Pharmaceuticalized University.
The Anthropologies Project.
Karim, Tazin. 2012. Meducating Our Children: The Moral Influence of Adderall on Education,
Parenting, and Treatment. Somatosphere.
Karim, Tazin. 2012. Medical Imaginaries and Technological Futures. Somatosphere.
PUBLICATIONS IN PROGRESS
Daniels, Tazin Karim, et al. Introduction. in Anthropology and Higher Education. Ed. Brian Foster. 2016
(forthcoming)
Daniels, Tazin Karim, Erin Mobley and Alex Chavez. 2015. #Adderall: Constructions of
Prescription Drug Use in Digital Spaces. Journal of Medical Internet Research.
Daniels, Tazin Karim, Justin Kenton and Shivani Pandya. 2015. Selling Study Drugs: Direct-toConsumer Advertising of Cognitive Enhancing Drugs. Social Science & Medicine.
Daniels, Tazin Karim. 2015. From ADHD Brains to Academic Gods: Transformations in Subjectivity
through Cognitive Enhancement. Medical Anthropology Quarterly.
Daniels, Tazin Karim. 2014. ADHD Emergencies: Constructions of Illness and Patienthood in American
Higher Education. Social Science and Medicine.
CONFERENCE PANEL CHAIR/ORGANIZATION/INVITED
2015
2015
2014
2014
2014

Womens drug ethnographies, Roundtable chair and co-organizer, American Anthropological

Association Meetings, Denver, CO
Anthropology and Higher Education Capstone Session, Invited Discussant, Society for Applied
Anthropology Conference Meetings, Pittsburg, PA (submitted)
Teaching Anthropology Online: Best Tools and Practices for Quality E-Learning Workshop
Leader, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C.
Professional Perspectives in the Anthropology of Drugs Panel co-chair and co-organizer,
American Anthropological Association Meetings, Washington D.C.
Silk Roads: Place and space in alcohol, tobacco and other drug use Panel co-organizer, Society
for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Albuquerque, NM

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2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011

Looking Back, Moving Forward: Reflections on Public Engagement in the Anthropology of

Alcohol, Drugs, and Tobacco Roundtable co-organizer, American Anthropological Association
Meetings, Chicago, IL
Drug Ab/Use: Border Constructions and Crossings in the Anthropology of Psychoactive
Substances Panel chair and co-organizer, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San
Francisco, CA
Anxieties and Vantage Points: Drug Use between the Boundaries of Moralized Health
Discourses Panel co-organizer, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco,
CA
"Border Patrol: Technologies of Moral Bureaucracy and Immobility" Panel co-organizer,
American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA
Permeable Borders: Negotiating Boundaries of (Il)licit Substance Use Panel co-organizer,
American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco, CA
Tracing the Future: Lines of Difference and Possibility in Medical Technology Panel chair and
co-organizer, American Anthropological Association Meetings, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Medical Imaginaries and Technological Futures Panel chair and co-organizer, Society for the
Social Studies of Science (4S) Meetings Cleveland, Ohio

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION
2015
2015
2014
2014
2013
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009

The Selves of Technologies, Paper presentation, Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
Meetings, Denver, CO
Insight for Accreditation: Integrating institutional learning goals in courses, Poster presentation,
Faculty Learning Community conference, Michigan State University
Prescribing Productivity: The Biomedicalization of Professional, Athletic, and Academic Labor
through the use Cognitive Enhancing Drugs, Paper presentation, Society for Cultural
Anthropology, Detroit, MI
#Adderall: Constructions of Prescription Drug Use in Digital Spaces, Paper presentation,
Society for Applied Anthropology Meetings, Albuquerque, NM (accepted)
Engaging participants and researchers in a shrinking ethnographic world: Challenges and
changes for the modern anthropologist Roundtable participant, American Anthropological
Association Meetings, Chicago, IL
The Moral Economy of Adderall: Redefining Health and Performance in the American
University Paper presentation, American Anthropological Association Meetings, San Francisco,
CA
Experimenting with Study Drugs: Legacies of Pharmaceutical Normalization and Enhancement
Individual paper, American Anthropological Association Meetings Montreal, Quebec, Canada
From ADHD Brains to Academic Gods*: Transforming Subjectivities through Cognitive
Enhancement Individual paper, Society for the Social Studies of Science Meetings, Cleveland,
Ohio
Dissertation Research on Stimulant Use on College Campuses Individual paper, Graduate
Academic Conference, Michigan State University
A is for Adderall: Pharmaceutical Interventions in Higher Education Individual paper,
American Anthropological Association Meetings New Orleans, LA
War Rape and Prison Rape: Theoretical Perspectives Joint paper with Dr. Christina DeJong,
American Society for Criminology Meetings, San Francisco, CA
The Medicalization of Menstruation: DTCA of Birth Control Pills Individual paper, Society for
Medical Anthropology Meetings, Yale University, New Haven, CT

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INVITED LECTURES
2014
2014
2014
2013
2013
2012
2012
2012
2012
2012
2011
2011
2011
2010
2010
2009
2009

Teaching with Technology Invited Lecture, Spring Teaching Institute, Michigan State
University
Introduction to Medical Anthropology Guest lecture, ANP 201: Introduction to Sociocultural
Diversity, Michigan State University
Implementation of Embedded Course Assessments Research presentation, Center for
Integrative Studies, Michigan State University.
Digital methods in Anthropological Research Guest lecture, ANP 429: Ethnographic Field
Methods, Michigan State University
Introduction to Medical Anthropology Guest lecture, ANP 201: Introduction to Sociocultural
Diversity, Michigan State University
Meducating our Children: The Moral Influence of Adderall on Education, Parenting and
Treatment in the U.S. Anthropology departmental presentation, Michigan State University
Medicalization and the Media Guest lecture, ANP 270: Women and Health, Michigan State
University
Domestic Drug Ethnographies Guest lecture, ANP 201: Introduction to Sociocultural Diversity,
Michigan State University
Socio-cultural Analyses of Drug Use Guest lecture, ANP 320: Social and Cultural Analysis,
Michigan State University
Racial and Socioeconomic Factors in U.S. Drug cultures Guest lecture, ISS 215: Social
Difference & Inequality, Michigan State University
Dissertation Planning and Field Methods Guest Lecture, ANP 834: Topics in Medical
Anthropology, Michigan State University
Pharmaceutical Interventions in Higher Education Anthropology departmental presentation,
Michigan State University
Nonmedical Use of Adderall and ADHD Drugs among College Students Joint paper with John
Taylor, Psy. D., MSU Counseling Center Michigan State University
Medicalization and the Media Guest lecture, ANP 270: Women and Health, Michigan State
University
I have an ADHD Emergency Joint paper with John Taylor, Psy. D., Michigan Association on
Higher Education and Disabilities (MI-AHEAD) conference, Michigan State Universit
Direct-to-Consumer-Advertising of Birth Control Anthropology departmental presentation,
Michigan State University
Introduction to Medical Anthropology Guest Lecture, ANP 201: Socio-Cultural Diversity,
Michigan State University

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REFERENCES
Dr. Heather Howard
Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Michigan State University
Email: howardh@msu.edu (517-353-4600)
Dr. Howard is the chair of my dissertation committee. She can speak to my research skills, teaching
abilities, and my overall performance in the medical anthropology program at Michigan State University.
Dr. Ethan Watrall
Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of MATRIX, Michigan State University
watrall@msu.edu (517-884-2476)
Dr. Watrall is the faculty in charge of the online course initiative for the Department of Anthropology, as
well as the Cultural Heritage Informatics initiative at MSU. He can speak to my leadership and
management skills, my teaching abilities, and my proficiency in digital anthropology.
Dr. Gilbert Quintero
Chair of the Department of Anthropology, University of Montana
gilbert.quintero@umontana.edu (406-243-5825)
Dr. Quintero is member of the Alcohol, Drugs and Tobacco Study group as well as research collaborator.
He can speak to my leadership, research and writing skills, and future potential for research and
publication in medical anthropology.
Dr. Julie Libarkin
Center for Integrative Studies in General Science, Michigan State University
libarkin@msu.edu (517-614-5349)
Dr. Libarkin is the faculty in charge of my current assistantship developing curriculum and conducting
assessment research in the Centers for Integrative Studies in General Science, Social Science, and the
Humanities. She can speak to my leadership and management skills, my teaching abilities, and
proficiencies in conducting assessment research.
Dr. Melissa McDaniels
Assistant Dean of the Graduate School, Director of the Teaching Assistant Program, Michigan State
University
mcdani73@msu.edu (517-355-7625)
Dr. McDaniels and I have collaborated on number of teaching-related projects at MSU and has invited me
to present on issues such as Educational Technology to graduate teaching assistant during the MSU
Spring Teaching Institute. She can speak to my teaching credentials, presentation and lecturing abilities,
and proficiency in innovative teaching tools and strategies.

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