Mitsuda, Tatsuya

Tatsuya Mitsuda is Associate Professor at Keio University, Tokyo/Yokohama, Japan. He was educated at Keio, Bonn and Cambridge, where he completed his PhD in History. His broad research and teaching interests span the intertwined social and cultural histories of food animals and climate, with particular reference to the German and Japanese experience in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Dr Mitsuda is currently writing a book on the history of sweets and snacking in Japan and a monograph on the history of infectious animal diseases in modern Germany. Between 2022 and 2024, he was a visiting researcher at the Center for Metropolitan Studies, Technische Universität Berlin and the Freie Universität Berlin.

I am involved in the following four research projects: 1. Meat in Germany 1700-1900 2. Infectious animal diseases in Germany, 1750-1930 3. Sweets and snacking in Japan, 1850-1980 4. Imperial dimensions of meat consumption in Japan, 1890-1930 5. Comparative urban environmental histories of seasonality My teaching spans topics close to my research field and takes place in a variety of formats, from individual supervisions to lectures with 100-200 students. Third and fourth year students - as well as overseas students - with a research interest in either food or animals are welcome to discuss with me dissertation projects. 1. Lecture: History of Food (Liberal Arts) 2. Lecture: History of Cities (Liberal Arts) 3. Seminar: History of Food (English) 6. Research Seminar: History of Food (Japanese) 7. Academic Skills 8. Thesis supervision (on topics related to the history of animals, food, cities)

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