Karisa Shiraki
College of Liberal Arts & Sciences - Spanish & PortuguesePh.D. Student
Contemporary Latin America
Advisor: Stuart Day
kshiraki@ku.edu
Primary office:
Wescoe Hall
University of Kansas
Karisa Shiraki is from Hawaii. She graduated from Brigham Young University with a B.A. in Spanish with minors in Linguistics and International Development in 2017 and with a M.A. in Hispanic Literatures in 2020.
Teaching Interests
- Cultural learning
- Student-centered teaching
- Technology in the classroom
Research Interests
- Women and Gender Studies
- Historical memory
- Contemporary Central America
