Experience LMU: “The Stories We Tell Ourselves: Asian Pacific Americans and the Model Minority Myth”

    Tuesday, November 17, 2020 at 6:00 PM until 7:00 PMPacific Standard Time UTC -08:00

    Curtiss Takada Rooks, Ph.D.
    Assistant Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies
    Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts

    Curtiss Takada Rooks, Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor and Program Coordinator of Asian Pacific American Studies at Loyola Marymount University, where also served eight years as Associate Dean, Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts.  Dr. Rooks teaches courses in APIA multiracial identity, TransPacific diaspora and contemporary APIA community issues.  His teaching also includes short-term study abroad programs in Japan.  Research interests focus on Asian American multiracial identity examining the role of multiracial Japanese Americans in US Japan relations, global Nikkei identity and he has spoken widely on multiracial identity issues.  A second trajectory of engaged scholarship includes participatory community-based research focusing on cultural engagement in community health & wellness, ethnic community development, and BIPOC college/university persistence and retention.

    Dr. Rooks received his BA from Dartmouth College double majoring in Economics and Asian Studies.  He holds an M.A. in Public Policy from Trinity College, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Culture from the University of California at Irvine with an emphasis on cultural anthropology and mathematical ethnography.


     

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