Prof. Dr. Yasuko Takezawa
Former Fellow National Monitoring of Discrimination and Racism (NaDiRa)
Yasuko Takezawa is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Intercultural Research Institute at Kansai Gaidai University, and Professor Emeritus at the Institute for Research in the Humanities, Kyoto University.
She has been leading a series of large international collaborative research projects on race and racism over the past two decades. As visiting professor, she has taught on race/racism at various universities outside of Japan as well, including MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Heidelberg University, Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) where she is currently teaching. She is a member of Science Council of Japan (SCJ). Her latest book in Japanese is Racism in America: Formation and Transformation of Categories and Identities (Nagoya U Press, 2023) and her latest co-edited book in English is Visibilities and Invisibilities of Race and Racism (Routledge, 2025).