» Dr. Stephanie M. Takaragawa

Assistant Professor

Affiliations:

University Honors Program

Education

University of Southern California, Bachelor of Arts
Temple University, Master of Arts
Temple University, Ph.D.

Biography

Stephanie Takaragawa (Ph.D., Temple University) is an Assistant Professor of Sociology. She has taught courses in the departments of Anthropology, Art History and American Studies at Rutgers University, University of Hamburg,  University of Redlands and Moore College of Art and Design. Her research and teaching interests are based in Anthropology and Visual Communication, a branch of cultural anthropology that focuses on issues of representation of film, mass media, art, performance, and cultural display. Her dissertation Visualizing Japanese-America: the Japanese American National Museum and the Construction of Identity examined the role of the Japanese American National Museum in the construction and dissemination of a Japanese-American identity.

B.A., University of Southern California; M.A., Ph.D., Temple University

Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications

Ethnographic Terminalia, Eastern Bloc Gallery, Montreal, Canada Organizational Team

Kate Hennessy, Fiona P. MacDonald, Trudi Lynn Smith and Stephanie Takaragawa. “Ethnographic Terminalia 2010: 27 Works” Visual Anthropology Review 27(1): 57-73.

Maria Brodine, Craig Campbell, Kate Hennessy, Fiona P. MacDonald, Trudi Lynn Smith and Stephanie Takaragawa. “Ethnographic Terminalia: An Introduction” Visual Anthropology Review 27(1): 49-51.

Ethnographic Terminalia, DuMois Gallery and Barrister's Gallery, New Orleans, LA Curatorial Collective

Ethnographic Terminalia, Crane Arts, Philadelphia, PA Organizational Team