Professors Information
Email: d-slater[at]sophia.ac.jp
Tel: 03-3238-4044
Office: 10-509
SLATER David
Professor
Anthropology
B.A., Vassar College
M.A., Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research and Teaching Interests：
Cultural anthropology: refugees and immigrants in Japan; homelessness; political activists; social and new media; digital archive and mediated ethnography; youth culture and new labor; disaster and recovery; oral narrative; Tohoku and Tokyo
東北からの声: デジタルアーカイブ
Archiver and Curator: Voices from Tohoku: Digital Archive of Disaster, Recovery and Mobilization
The is the largest collection of digital oral narratives of the 3.11 triple disasters yet. Please check out it out here:
URL: https://tohokukaranokoe.org/
日本語:
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/jpn/info/news/2014/4/globalnews_1086/20140424
English:
http://www.sophia.ac.jp/eng/info/news/2014/4/globalnews_1083/20140424?ki…
Selected Publications
- Co-authored with two of our students in Japanese Studies in the Graduate School of Global Studies at Sophia, Keiko Nishimura and Love Kindstrand
- For more information, please see: https://sophia.academia.edu/DavidSlater
COURSES
| Courses No | Title | 2022 Semester Offered |
|---|---|---|
| ANT220 | ANTHROPOLOGY OF JAPAN | Spring |
| ANT309 | JAPAN RESEARCH | Autumn |
| ANT318 | DIGITAL ORAL NARRATIVES 1 | Autumn |
| ANT319 | DIGITAL ORAL NARRATIVES 2 | Not offered |
| ANT447 | ANTHROPOLOGY PRACTICUM 1 | Spring |
| ANT448 | ANTHROPOLOGY PRACTICUM 2 | Not offered |
| Courses No | Title | 2022 Semester Offered |
|---|---|---|
| JS551Z | JAPAN ETHNOGRAPHY | Spring |
| JS730Z | ADVANCED STUDIES IN JAPAN ETHNOGRAPHY | Spring |