I studied Catholic theology in Augsburg, Paris and Munich, graduating in 2008.
In 2009 I joined the Rachel Carson Center, where I became a member of the Doctoral Program Environment and Society. In 2015, I completed my doctorate in theology, which focused on the subsidiary influence of church engagement in the environmental field.
From 2018 to 2021, I worked on the SNF project Urban Green Religions at the University of Basel. The findings from this research project serve as the basis for my second PhD in sociology.
Since spring 2022, I have worked at the Chair of Theological Ethics in Passau.
I am married and have four children.
Dr. Julia Blanc's current research project addresses the question, "What is the significance of scientific theological reflection on environmental issues for local
Ecocatholicism: social ethical analyses of selected countries and institutions in Europe, Marburg 2017.
(with Jens Köhrsen, Fabian Huber) Global Religious Environmental Activism: Emerging Tensions in Earth Stewardship, Abingdon 2022.
(with Gerhard Kruip, Daniel Bogner) AmosInternational. Designing Society Justly. Journal of Christian Social Ethics 1/2020: Catholic Church as Institution - A Social Ethical View.
Mountains, Sea or Delivery Room. Locating the Sacred, in: Fama - feminist-theological journal of Switzerland 4/2022.
Poor Animals: The Option for the Poor as a Possible Connecting Point of a Christian Animal Ethics, in: Martin Lintner: Mensch - Tier - Gott. Interdisciplinary Approaches to a Christian Animal Ethics, Baden-Baden 2021.
Environmental Protection as an Opportunity for More Subsidiarity in the Catholic Church, in: Communio 5/2020
Sustainable Development - For Whom?, in: Demele, Markus, Hartlieb, Michael, Noweck, Anna: Ethics of Development. Social Ethical Perspectives in Theory and Practice, Münster 2011.
