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Dr. Takami S. Delisle

Research Interests:
cultural anthropology
higher education in the US
Social Movements
critical race studies
diversity and equity
institutional ethnography
Education

Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Kentucky -- Dissertation project: "Breaking the Silence of Minoritized Students: Structural and Everyday Injustice in US Anthropology Graduate Training" (2021)

M.A. Anthropology, Western Michigan University (2005)

B.A. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (2001)

Selected Academic Conferences

Diversity Policies aren’t Working for Us!: Insights from Marginalized Anthropology Graduate Students.” Paper presented the 118th Annual Meeting of American Anthropological Association and Canadian Anthropology Society, Vancouver CAN, November 20-24, 2019.

“Anthropology Graduate Training in Turbulent Times: Multiple Marginalization in the Micro-Context of Power Relations." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, Portland OR, March 19-23, 2019.

Co-organizer of "Solidarity Mentoring Conversation for Graduate Students and Recent PhDs of Color." The 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, CA, November 14-18, 2018.

Roundtable Presenter in “Destabilizing Power and Asserting Praxis in Post-HAU Anthropology." The 117th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. San Jose, CA, November 14-18, 2018.

"Engaging in Social Change within Anthropology Departments." Paper presented in Session "Taking a Hard Look in the Mirror: Decolonizing Our Institutions/Ourselves." The 116th Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association. Washington DC, November29-December 3, 2017.

Panelist in "Strategies for Action and Solidarity on Our Campuses Amid Contexts of State-Sanctioned Violence, Repression, and Hatred: A Conversation. Annual DOPE (Dimensions of Political Ecology) Conference. Lexington KY, February 23-25, 2017.

Selected Publications:

Delisle, T. S. (2019). Review of Decolonizing the University, edited by Gurminder K. Bhambra, Dalia Gebrial, and Kerem Nişancıoğlu. Teaching and Learning Anthropology, 2(2). http://dx.doi.org/10.5070/T32244159 Retrieved from https://escholarship.org/uc/item/24k0229q

Decolonizing Everyday Praxis/Space → Decolonizing Anthropology. Footnotes: Multimodal, Anticolonial, Iconoclastic. May 2019. https://footnotesblog.com/2019/05/06/decolonizing-everyday-praxis-space-→-decolonizing-anthropology/.