Dr. Diane Nititham

Dr. Nititham's CV

• PhD, Sociology, University College Dublin (UCD) – Dublin, Ireland
• MA, Social and Cultural Foundations in Education, DePaul University
• BA, Communication, DePaul University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Diaspora, migration, race/ethnicity, globalization, and transnational social practices;
• feminist critiques of home and belonging;
• critical pedagogy and social justice in education

Biography

Dr. Diane Sabenacio Nititham is a cultural sociologist who focuses on the dynamics of  diaspora, transnational social practices, and notions of home and belonging. She is interested in how these dynamics manifest for people amongst asymmetrical power relations, social policies, and community coalition building.  Her book Making Home in Diasporic Communities: Transnational Belonging Amongst Filipina migrants (Routledge, 2016), highlights the intersections of global labor migration and everyday practices for Filipina migrants in Ireland. Her co-edited book Heritage, Diaspora, and the Consumption of Culture: Movements in Irish Landscapes (2013) uses a interdisciplinary and transhistorical framework to examine the cultural, material, and symbolic articulations of Irish migration relationships from the medieval period through to the contemporary post-Celtic Tiger era. She has also worked on several comparative projects, including a 16-person interdisciplinary team that examined the integration of Nigerian, Lithuanian, Indian and Chinese communities in Ireland. 

Dr. Nititham received her PhD in Sociology from University College Dublin, Ireland. She received a MA with distinction in Social and Cultural Foundations in Education and BA in Communication from DePaul University. In 2017, she received the MSU Emerging Scholar Award and in 2021, the Board of Regents Teaching Excellence Award. She teaches a range of topics including popular culture, social inequality, migration, and education. She also offers courses in Dublin for Murray State’s Education Abroad programs. 

Courses Taught

• SOC 133 Introduction to Sociology
• HON 133 Honors Seminar in Sociology
• SOC 269 Popular Culture
• SOC 305 Social Issues
• SOC 333 Sociology of Education
• SOC 334 Sociology of Migration
• SOC 337 Sociology of Inequality
• SOC 343 Race and Ethnicity
• SOC 465 Globalization

Selected Scholarship

Books

• Nititham, D.S. (2016). Making Home in Diasporic Communities. (London: Routledge).
• Nititham, D.S. and Boyd, R. eds. (2014). Heritage, Diaspora and the Consumption of Culture: Movements in Irish Landscapes. (London: Routledge).

Peer-Reviewed

• Cooper, S., Nititham, D.S., and Romero-Gonzalez, T. 2023. "Drafting while Drifting: Developing a Digital Village of Support and Advocacy during the Covid-19 Pandemic." Trocchio, S. Hanasono, L., Dwyer, R., Borchert, J.J., and Harvic, J.Y. (eds), Academic Mothers Building Online Communities: It Takes a Village, Palgrave.
• Nititham, D.S. 2022. "Names That Take Root," Banjo, Omotayo (ed), Dreams for Our Children, Minneapolis: Wise Ink Creative Publishing.
• Nielsen, D. and Nititham, D.S. 2022. "Memes, Cinematic Innovation, and Participatory Fan Culture: A Case Study on Keanu Reeves," Celebrity Studies. DOI: 10.1080/19392397.2022.2063397
• Nititham, D.S. 2022. "Positionalities of Precarity: An Autoethnography on 'Making It' in the Neoliberal Academy. Journal of Autoethnography, 3(1), pp. 38-56. DOI: 10.1525/joae.2022.3.1.38 
• Nielsen, D., Nititham, D.S., Polizzi, M. 2021. "Interdisciplinary Team Teaching: Reflections on Praxis and Pedagogy in an Undergraduate Classroom," College Teaching. DOI: 10.1080/87567555.2021.1915236 
• Nititham, D.S. 2021. "Between a Banana and a Coconut: On Being Second-Generation American on the Periphery," Banjo, Omotayo (ed), Immigrant Generations, Media Representations, and Audiences, Palgrave MacMillan. 

Public Scholarship and Media

• Nititham, D.S. 2021. "Emergent SocialScapes." Research photography exhibition, Murray Art Guild
• Nititham, D.S. 2021. "Reflections on Mobility and Multigenerational Families." Youth Circulations. Read article. 
• Nititham, D.S. 2020. "NOW is the Time: Defining Racism" lecture, West Kentucky National Organization for Women, (Zoom) Murray, KY.
• Nititham, D.S. 2019. "A Filipino Community Grows in Ireland." Positively Filipino. Read article.