About Erik Ropers

Erik Ropers is assistant professor of history at Towson University. He has published in a range of academic journals including Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific and Japanese Studies on topics including wartime Japan, forced labor, survivors of the atomic bombings, and gendered violence. His recent work includes "Contested Spaces of Ethnicity: Zainichi Korean Accounts of the Atomic Bombings,'' Critical Military Studies 1 (2015) and, in Japanese, "Testimony, Trauma, and Art: Collaborative Approaches to Narrating War and its Aftermath,'' in Yoshii Hiroaki, ed., Senso;am to mukiau shakaigaku (Encounters between war and sociology, forthcoming).