Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu | Scholar-practitioner on Multiracial, Transnational Asian American Identities and Mental Health

Asian American Studies

In the Stanford University Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity I teach classes on: Understanding Racial and Ethnic Identity Development; Hapa Lives and Identities; Transnational and Multiethnic Perspectives on Asian American...

Medical Humanities

I use narrative, writing, performing arts, and film in medical education to enhance cross cultural sensitivity and patient-centered care in the program in Arts, Humanities, and Medicine in the Stanford University School of Medicine. For our...

Hapa Japan Transnational Research

My research on Japanese/American multiethnic lives began 30 years ago with a doctoral dissertation at Harvard, Voices of Amerasians: Ethnicity, Identity, and Empowerment in Interracial Japanese Americans, a study of childhood and adolescent...

The Celtic Samurai Storytelling

In searching for “new” ways of knowledge presentation I began to practice the ancient tradition of oral storytelling. The Celtic Samurai: A Boy’s Transcultural Journey, is a multi-media storytelling that illuminates the life of a boy...

Asian American Family Education

My research and practice in multicultural family education in Japan and the United States, focuses on Asian immigrant and multicultural families and holistic child development. Through a nonprofit organization I co-founded — PI Education and...

Japan/U.S. Organizational Consulting

I provide consultation and training on Japanese-American human relations to Japanese and American governmental organizations and private institutions dealing with the challenges of diversity and globalization. Consulting includes cultural...