Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar

Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar is a historian and writer interested in the epistemic and elemental politics of war, and the connections between academic knowledge and the defence industry. Zsuzsanna received her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge, with a dissertation examining the history of the Scottish Hebrides and its militarization, titled "Missiles, Modernity and the Machair." For her Master of Research, she worked on the entanglements between nature and nation in the Caspian context, examining different environmental discourses and ecological myths circulating during periods of military escalation/build-up in Azerbaijan. She has been a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) in Munich, a Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine (CHSTM), and a Knowledge Management Fellow at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). Zsuzsanna was also the co-founder of the Military Surplus Research Network at CRASSH, Cambridge, responsible for a two-year seminar and workshop series, drawing together an interdisciplinary community of scholars interested in tracing the by-products of war across multiple scales of life. 

Alongside her MPIWG project, Zsuzsanna will consolidate her PhD research into a monograph tentatively titled "Declassifying the Isles: An Archival Journey along the Military’s Atlantic Fringes." In addition to her research, Zsuzsanna is working with Demilitarise Education UK on an online demilitarization course, funded by Antipode’s Right to the Discipline grant, and co-convening the MPIWG reading group "Multispecies Militarism.”

Zsuzsanna is the recipient of a Gates Cambridge Scholarship.