Sarah Slater

Sarah Slater

MA

PaRC Research and Administrative Coordinator

Sarah is the PaRC Research and Administrative Coordinator, and also works with the Section of Palliative Care and Medical Ethics in the Division of General Internal Medicine. She comes to the role with extensive experience in Pittsburgh’s nonprofit sector. She holds a M.A. in Theology with a concentration in social ethics, from Duquesne University, and a B.S. with a double major in Business Administration and International Development from Houghton College. Her master’s thesis considered the role of medieval scholastic anthropology in the moral philosophy of Josef Pieper.

In her previous positions, she has served as a program coordinator for a local community development membership organization, as the business manager for a human rights publication, and worked in the Business and Auxiliary Services Department at Pitt. Sarah is passionate about end-of-life ethics. In her free time, she serves as the copy editor for the Genealogies of Modernity online journal. She volunteers at Garfield Community Farm and with her parish choir.

Ask me about: local architecture, modernism in the visual arts, her houseplants, and pacifism and nonviolence in the 20th century.