Melinda Takeuchi

in Asian Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB).

Takeuchi invested thirty years climbing the tenure-track ladder at Stanford.

Once you reach a certain watershed in your career — for me, it was getting tenure at Stanford — you take stock of your life, come up for air, look around and say, 'Is this all there is?'

— Melinda Takeuchi[1]In recent years, Takeuchi's life in academia has been balanced by the activities associated with breeding Friesian horses on a small ranch in Northern California.

[1] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Melinda Takeuchi, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 10+ works in 20+ publications in 2 languages and 1,000+ library holdings.