Franziska Seraphim
Associate Professor
Biography
Professor Seraphim is a historian of modern and contemporary Japan and the Director of the Asian Studies Program. Her work has focused on the contested place of Japan’s empire and war in Asia in postwar politics, society, and culture. She is currently writing a social history of the Allied transitional justice program after World War II from a global and comparative perspective. Titled Geographies of Justice , it relates the different spatialities of the program and its transformation through the 1940s and 1950s through the lens of Japanese and German war criminals' prisons, from their vast spread across Asia and Europe to the dynamics within the American-run jails in Tokyo and Landsberg (Bavaria) and the (inter)national politics of clemency.