Department/College/UnitSocial Sciences Division

TitleProfessor

AffiliationFaculty

Other UCSC Campus AffiliationLatin American & Latino Studies
Stevenson College
John R. Lewis College
East Asian Studies
Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas

Web SiteFaculty

Additional Location(s)Rachel Carson College, Sociology, Room 329

Office HoursTuesdays and Thursdays 9:35 - 11:30; and by appointment

Mail StopRachel Carson College Faculty Services

Biography, Education and Training

1986 - Ph.D., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

1979 - M.A., Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

1976 - B.A., Mathematics, University of California, Berkeley

Dana Takagi is a professor of Sociology at UCSC, since 1987; before coming to UCSC, she taught at UC Irvine in the program in social ecology. She is a committed to empirically based research, theoretical innovation, and linking interdisciplinary knowledge to understanding the world-as-it is.

Research Interests

Inequality and Identity, Methods, Race, Theory, Higher Education, Nationalism and Indigeneity, Buddhist, Philosophy

Teaching Interests

Inequality and Identity, Social Problems, Research Methods, Quantitative Methods

Awards, Honors and Grants

Awards/Honors

• 2002 – 04. President, Association for Asian American Studies.
• 1997 – 98. Humanities Research Institute Fellow, UC Irvine.
• 1994.  Gustavus Myers Center for Human Rights:  Outstanding Book Award.

Grants

• 2011 – 2012. Principal Investigator: Committee on Research at the University of California – Santa Cruz. $1,500.
• 2009 – 2010. Committee on Research, University of California -  Santa Cruz, Generation Next Funds for RA and preparation of manuscript, GN2GO: By Us, For Us, About Us. Co-edited with L.Thompson. $1,500.
• 2006. Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community pending RA assistance for research on faith-based approaches to social justice. $5,000.

Selected Presentations

Public Lecture or Forum Participation

• 2011. "Asian American Identities" for the Stanford Asian American Student Organization, Stanford University.
• 2007. Keynote Address for the Asian Pacific Americans in Higher Education Oakland.
• 2003. Presidential Address for the Association of Asian American Studies in Boston. 

Papers Presented at Professional Meetings

• 2014. "Everything Changes: On Becoming" for the Symposium Sexuality Matters, Association of Black Sociologists, Pre-Conference, at the American Sociological Association in San Francisco.
• 2011. "The Precarious Place of Race," for the Sovereignty and Race Conference at the University of California – Los Angeles.
• 2004. Presidential Address, "On Affect," Association for Asian American Studies, Boston.

Selected Publications

Books

• 1998. The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics. Rutgers University Press. 2nd edition. NEW INTRODUCTION.
• 1995. Thinking Theory, Special Issue for Amerasia Journal. UCLA. Co-edited with Michael Omi.
• 1992. The Retreat from Race: Asian American Admissions and Racial Politics. Rutgers University Press.

Contributions to Books

• 2014. "Poverty" in Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia. Sage.
• 2014. "Inequality" in Asian American Society: An Encyclopedia. Sage. 

Journal Articles

• 2014. "First Precepts on Democracy and Research: Iteration, Collaboration and Reflection." Cultural Studies--Critical Methodologies.  
• 2011. "On Disciplinary Change: For Professor Fujimoto." Chuo Law Review.
• 2008. "Form and Emptiness: Globalization and Buddhism." Amerasia Journal.