mr Adrian Gasser Monterrubio

Adrian is a doctoral candidate in anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID) in Geneva. Of Swiss and Spanish nationality, he is a fluent speaker of several languages. He holds a bachelor's degree in political science from the University of Lausanne and a master's degree in international affairs from IHEID, and has developed a keen interest in international history, in the anthropology of religion and, above all, in the historical and comparative sociology of politics. In the course of his intellectual wanderings, he has also taken an interest in East Asian societies, and more particularly in the process of nation-building in South Korea. In 2020, he joined Master-Asia at the University of Geneva, which enabled him to continue learning the Korean language and lay the foundations for his doctoral research. Since Adrian joined the department of anthropology and sociology at the Graduate Institute in 2022, he has been reflecting on the religious dimensions underlying the South Korean nationalist current. At the present time, he plans to conduct a fieldwork in Seoul in order to gain a better understanding of the relationship between Buddhism, Christianity and nationalism in South Korea.