Tao Zhang

*The Imagined and The Lived: Re/Naming, Tourism, and the Identity Performance of Shangri-La Tibetans.
Presented at 2024 NCA, New Orleans, LA; Nov. 2024

*Intercultural Communication Interest Group’s Works-in-Progress Feedback Parlor.
Panelist, presented at 2024 CSCA, Grand Rapids, MI; Apr. 2024

*Floating in Limbo, Between “Homes”: From International Student to Transnational Faculty.
Presented at 2023 NCA, National Harbor, MD; Nov.2023

*2022 CSCA President’s Undergraduate Honors Research Conference.
Chair, held at 2022 CSCA, Madison WI; Apr. 2022

*Mindfulness Practices in the Classroom.
Panelist, presented at 2022 CSCA, Madison WI; Apr. 2022

*Media Use in the Classroom.
Panelist, presented at 2022 CSCA, Madison WI; Mar. 2022. Instructional Resources/Media Studies Discussion Panel

*Communicating the Missing.
Presented at 2021 CSCA, online; Mar. 2021

*Undergraduate Research Honors Conference
Chair, held at 2021 CSCA, online; Mar. 2021

*Lost in Transportation: At the Crossroads of/on/to the (Dead) Bodies, Memories, and Ideologies
Presented at 106th NCA, online, Nov. 2020

*Undoing the “Non-s”: Speaking between Cultures in the English-Speaking Culture
Presented at 106th NCA, online, Nov. 2020

*Living an Invisible Life: Stories of US F2/J2 Visa Holders
Presented at 106th NCA, online, Nov. 2020

*Living in a Home with a Western Name
Presented at 2020 CSCA, O’Hare, IL; Apr. 2020 (moved online due to the pandemic)

*My English is “Accented” Because Your Ears Are Racist: Surviving with Otherness by Approaching Toward Positive Becoming
Presented at 105th NCA, Baltimore, MD, 2019

*Proposal for “Necessity and Possibility of Decolonizing the Understanding of Chinese-ness”
First presented at the Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language, and Media (MCLLM) , Dekalb, IL; Apr . 2019; then expanded Paper accepted for 105th NCA, Baltimore, MD, 2019

*Dialogue Across Multi-Colored Otherness: Confronted Chinese-ness in the U.S. Academia
Presented at 2019 CSCA, Omaha, NE; Apr. 2019

*Academic Performance, Health, and Self-Disclosure: Creating an Open Dialogue between Faculty and Students
Panelist, Pedagogical Disclosure as a Border-Crossing Praxis, presented at 2019 CSCA, Omaha, NE; Apr. 2019

*Rape Victims or Underage Prostitutes? Labeling, Stigmatizing, and Victimizing Chinese Young Women.
First presented at WGSS “Erased, Enraged, Empowered” conference, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Mar. 22, 2019; paper later presented at 105th NCA, Baltimore, MD, 2019

*Microaggressive Play: Morphing Racism Toward Asian/Pacific American Teachers in U.S. American Higher Education
Panelist, presented at 104th NCA, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018

*Reflexivity of Traumatic Memories from WWII: Peace Pedagogy through Dialogic and Relational Tensions
Co-presented at 104th NCA, Salt Lake City, UT, 2018

*Living A Death of My Own
First presented at Building Bridges Graduate Conference, “Identity Crisis;” Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Oct. 25, 2018. Paper later presented at 105th NCA, Baltimore, MD, 2019

NCA Conference Submission Reviewer
Ethnography Division, NCA
Reviewing Individual Paper, Session, & Panel Submissions
Apr. 2025

NCA Interest Group Awards Reviewer
Ethnography Division, NCA
Jun. 2024

NCA Conference Paper Reviewer
Critical and Cultural Studies Division, NCA
International and Intercultural Communication Division, NCA
Apr. 2024 & 2025

Central State Communication Association (CSCA)
President’s Undergraduate Honors Research Conference Paper Reviewer, 2022 CSCA
President’s Undergraduate Honors Research Conference Paper Reviewer, 2021 CSCA
Graduate Student Competitive Paper Reviewer, 2019 CSCA

Kaleidoscope, A Graduate Journal of Qualitative Communication Research
Associate Editor and paper reviewer
2019-2020, SIUC

Identity Committee (IFWG – Identity Faculty Working Group)
DKU Faculty Assembly, Duke Kunshan University
Crew Member, Since Spring 2024

Undergraduate Academic Integrity Review Board (UARB)
DKU Undergraduate Studies
Fall 2024 – Spring 2026