Stephanie Takaragawa is a cultural anthropologist whose research examines visual and material culture. Her research broadly focuses on media, art, performance, exhibition, and theme parks and their relationship to racial representation. Much of her work specifically looks at the Japanese-American incarceration during WWII and how that is understood, represented and memorialized in the present. Her teaching areas include cultural anthropology and visual culture, Asian American studies and Disneyland.
Her current research project on the Japanese American incarceration can be found here: https://scalar.chapman.edu/scalar/internment-exhibit-test-book/index