Sanae Nakatani

Sanae Nakatani wrote her dissertation on how three Nisei designers—Isamu Noguchi, George Nagashima, and Minoru Yamasaki—strategically formed their non-mainstream professional identities and curved out their places in the competitive arena as they worked on domestic and international projects during the mid-twentieth century. Her current project looks at how race played into their activities as they engaged in developing and expanding the notions of modern design in the US and Japan. Presently she teaches at Tokyo Metropolitan University.