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Faculty Bio

Akiko Takenaka, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Postdoctoral Fellow in the Michigan Society of Fellows

  

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

    Modern Japanese architecture; Modern Japanese history; Modern Japanese religions; Renaissance architectural studies

EDUCATION:

  • PhD, History of Art, Yale University, 2004
  • MA, History of Art, Yale University, 1999
  • MS, Architectural Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1997
  • BS, Architecture and Building Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology, 1990

SELECT GRANTS, AWARDS, HONORS AND FELLOWSHIPS:

  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, 2005-08
  • Postdoctoral Fellowship, Center for the Art of East Asia, University of Chicago, 2004-05
  • Dissertation Writing Fellowship, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Yale University, 2002-03

SELECT PUBLICATIONS:

  • "Exhibiting World War II in Japan and the United Statesi," Pacific Historical Review (with Laura Hein, under review).
  • "Architecture for Mass-Mobilization: The Chureito Memorial Construction Movement, 1939-1945," in Alan Tansman ed., The Culture of Japanese Fascism (Duke University Press, forthcoming).
  • "Residential Renovation in Small Urban Space: 'F' Residence Hoboken, NJ," INAX Report, no. 157 (December 2003): 28-9. (in Japanese)
  • "Pan-Asianism vs. Changeless, Timeless Japan: The Construction of a Wartime National Identity," in Thresholds 17 (Spring 1998): 63-68.
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