UCLA Professor Lois Takahashi Promoted to Full Professor

The UCLA Asian American Studies Center is very proud to announce that Professor Lois M. Takahashi has been promoted to Full Professor in UCLA's Department of Urban Planning of the School of Public Affairs. Professor Takahashi has actively participated in the Faculty Advisory Committee of the Asian American Studies Center throughout her UCLA career.

Professor Takahashi received her Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Southern California, an M.S. in Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, and an A.B. in Architecture from UC Berkeley. Her research interests include social capital and health among APIs, access to social services for populations in need (e.g., homeless individuals and persons living with HIV/AIDS), the NIMBY (Not In My Back Yard) syndrome, and community participation and environmental governance in Southeast Asian cities (especially Bangkok, Thailand and Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam).

Dr. Takahashi's first book on the NIMBY syndrome, which was entitled, Homelessness, AIDS, and Stigmatization: The NIMBY Syndrome in the United States at the End of the Twentieth Century, was published in 1998 (Oxford University Press). Her second book, Rethinking environmental management in the Pacific Rim (2002, with Amrita Daniere) assessed the roles of community participation, state intervention, and nongovernmental organizations in managing urban development and environmental degradation in Bangkok, Thailand (Ashgate Publishing). She also has 45 published articles and book chapters. She is currently working on a book that analyzes the disruptive dimensions of social capital for Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders living with HIV/AIDS.

Professor Takahashi is co-PI on a grant with Asian Pacific AIDS Intervention Team (APAIT) in Los Angeles on a UC California HIV Research Program grant that is studying HIV and viral hepatitis co-infection among Asians in Los Angeles. She is also working with APAIT and Guam Communications Network (Long Beach/San Diego) to evaluate their HIV prevention capacity building programs targeting Asian and Pacific Islander groups in Los Angeles, Orange County, and San Diego.