2025 – 2028 Presidential Research Professor
Takashi Yamashita
Professor, Sociology, Anthropology, and Public Health, and Gerontology Doctoral Program

Takashi Yamashita is a professor of sociology and co-director of the Gerontology Doctoral Program at UMBC. He joined the UMBC community in 2017. Prior to his appointment at UMBC, Yamashita was a faculty member in the Department of Sociology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. His research focuses on the broader benefits of education and lifelong learning, health literacy, applied quantitative methods, and gerontology education. He teaches courses in social gerontology, and quantitative research methods in the social sciences at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. Yamashita has served as the principal investigator on research projects funded by the U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. He is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the highest level of membership awarded by the organization. Yamashita holds his master’s in public health from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and his Ph.D. from Miami University.