Commencement 2019
Denison University’s 178th Commencement took place on Saturday, May 18. Watch the ceremony in its entirety including commencement keynote speaker Jennifer Garner ’94.
Taku Suzuki
Associate Professor
Director of International Studies
Biography
Professor Suzuki is an Associate Professor in International Studies. He earned a B.A. in International Studies from Meiji Gakuin University in Yokohama, Japan, and a M.A. and a Ph.D. in Sociocultural Anthropology from the University of Minnesota. He has conducted field research in the Okinawan immigrant communities in eastern Bolivia and Okinawan-Bolivian immigrant communities in eastern Japan, and is currently interested in a transnational Okinawan peace and environmental activism. He teaches courses in introductory International Studies, globalization and diversification of Japanese society, trans-Pacific Asian communities and identities, race and class formations in a global perspective, and comparative Asian immigrant experiences in the Americas.
Degree(s)
B.A., Meiji Gakuin University; M.A., University of Minnesota; Ph.D., University of Minnesota
Research
Research Overview
Tourism and political activism, creation of history and memory, race and ethnicity, transnational migrations and globalization, Okinawa and Japan, the Mariana Islands, Asian America/Asian Diaspora in the Americas, Bolivia.