Shimpei Cole Ota

Shimpei Cole Ota (太田 心平; 오타 심페이, 1975 – ) is a sociocultural anthropologist, sociocultural historian, researcher of Northeast Asian studies and curator of ethnology. He is an associate professor of cross-field research at the National Museum of Ethnology which is the largest research institute for the humanities in Japan and is one of the six members of the National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan (NIHU). Ota is also working for the Graduate University for Advanced Studies as an associate professor of museum studies, and is affiliated at the American Museum of Natural History as a research associate of anthropology, too.[1]

Shimpei C. Ota
太田 心平
Born1975
Osaka City, Japan
NationalityJapanese
Other names오타 심페이
Occupationassociate professor
Years active2000s - present
Known forSouth Korean political mentality, anthropology of Korea, (Post-)Colonial cultures in South Korea and Japan, Korean Migration, Korean exhibitions, Urban Anthropology
Academic background
EducationB.A. Human Sciences (Sociology), Osaka University (1998)
M.A. Human Sciences (Anthropology), Osaka University (2000)
A.B.D. Anthropology Seoul National University (2003)
Ph.D. Human Sciences (Anthropology) Osaka University (2007)
Alma materOsaka University
ThesisIntegration and Implosion of Contemporary Political History, and Beyond: An Anthropological Study on Korean Narrativity and Recognition (2007)
Doctoral advisorJunji Koizumi & Naoki Kasuga
InfluencesRenato Rosaldo Clifford Geertz Max Weber
Academic work
Disciplinecultural anthropology, cultural history
Sub-disciplinemuseum studies
InstitutionsNational Museum of Ethnology (Japan), Graduate University for Advanced Studies, National Institutes for the Humanities, American Museum of Natural History

Career

Ota was born in Osaka City and earned his BA (1998), MA (2000), then PhD (2007) in human sciences from Osaka University. He also completed an additional doctoral program in anthropology at Seoul National University from 2000 to 2003. Before joining NIHU, he lived in Korea for seven years.[2]

Research

Ota's research examines people's recognition of cultures. More specifically, he tries to explain how people and societies recognize their own cultural "change." What do the narratives and discourses of personal change and social shift epistemologically mean? He has pursued this question mainly through case studies of Korean political history and intellectual subculture. For example, his publications explore South Korean activists' recognition of Korean "democratization," and the cultural history of Korean scholar-bureaucrats from their descendants' point of view during the 17th to 19th centuries. Ota has also been conducting researches on Korean celadon ceramics, on oversea Koreans in Mainland China and United States, and on museum administration.[2]

Note
  1. 아사쿠라・오타 (eds.) 2012, pp.346.
  2. Shimpei Cole Ota. "Shimpei Cole Ota, a personal homepage". Retrieved 3 September 2014.
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References

아사쿠라 도시오・오타 심페이, ed. (2012). 한민족 해외동포의 현주소 (in Korean). 학연문화사. ISBN 978-89-5508-281-4. Archived from the original on 16 June 2014.


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