Jun.-Prof. Dr. Fynn Holm
Resume
Fynn Holm is Junior Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Tübingen. His research focuses on environmental and social history of Japan from the 17th to the 20th century. He studied, history, law, and Japanese studies at the Universities of Basel, Meiji (Tokyo), and Zurich. In 2019, he defended his dissertation on historical Japanese anti-whaling movements at the University of Zurich. His first book, The Gods of the Sea: Whales and Coastal Communities in Northeast Japan, c. 1600-2019, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2023. Holm worked as a research assistant in the Department of Social Science Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich from 2015 to 2020. In 2017-2018, he was a visiting scholar at Tōhoku University in Sendai. 2021-2022, he was an associate scholar at Harvard University funded by an Early Postdoctoral Mobility Fellowship from the Swiss National Science Foundation. Prior to his appointment at the University of Tübingen, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Economic, Social and Environmental History at the University of Bern between September 2022 and March 2023. Currently, Holm is researching a transnational environmental history of the Japanese Alps.
Curriculum Vitae
since April 2023
Junior Professor
Department of Japanese Studies, University of Tübingen
2022-2023
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Section of Economic, Social and Environmental History, University of Bern
2022
Visiting Researcher
Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University (Japan)
2021-2022
Associate Postdoctoral Researcher
Department of History, Harvard University
2021
Lecturer (Sabbatical Replacement)
Department of History, University of Zurich
2020-2021
Postdoctoral Research Fellow
Social Science of Japan, University of Zurich
2019
Ph.D. History
University of Zurich
2017-2018
Visiting Researcher
International Research Institute of Disaster Science, Tohoku University (Japan)
2015-2020
Teaching and Research Assistant
Social Science of Japan, University of Zurich
2015
M.A. History and Japanese Studies: Social Science
University of Zurich
2013-2014
Study Abroad Program
School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University (Japan)
2011
B.A. History and Law
University of Basel