“Disaster recovery is not only about rebuilding physical infrastructure. It is also a question of whose identities, knowledge, and ways of being are recognized as legitimate” Gretchen Gonzaga defended her doctoral thesis on Post-disaster recovery in the Philippine periphery

Gretchen Gonzaga (ZEF's research group on Cultural and Political Change, ZEF CPC) defended her doctoral thesis on “Post-Disaster Recovery in the Philippine Periphery: An Anthropological Approach to the Experiences of Sea-Oriented Indigenous Peoples”. Her doctoral degree was granted by the Faculty of Arts, Bonn University. 

Gretchen’s supervisor was Prof. Christoph Antweiler, and her second reviewer was Prof. Kristina Großmann. Prof. Eva Youkhana (ZEF CPC) was head and Prof. Carmen Brandt a member of the examination committee. Gretchen's tutor was Dr. Dennis Lucy Aviles Irahola (associated ZEF senior researcher)