Julia Gerster

Julia Gerster gained her PhD at Freie Universität Berlin in Japanese Studies with a disciplinary focus on Social and Cultural Anthropology. She currently works as Associate Professor at the International Research Institute of Disaster Science at Tohoku University. Her research explores the dynamics of social relations after disasters, recovery processes, the handling of negative heritage as well as identity and post-disaster community building. She has published extensively on contests over disaster memory, especially in the wake of the 3/11 triple disaster.