Biography

Zsuzsanna Ihar is a PhD candidate in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre. She is also a Gates scholar and a member of the research project “From Collection to Cultivation”—a Wellcome-funded research initiative led by Prof. Helen Anne Curry. Since 2023, Ihar has convened the research network “Military Surplus: Toxicity, Industry and War,” funded by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (CRASSH), with Dr. Layla Renshaw, Prof. Paola Filippucci, and Jo Sweeney. She was previously a Knowledge Management Fellow at the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA), and a Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine. Her dissertation, titled 'Missiles, Modernity, and the Machair: A History of the Scottish Hebrides and its Militarisation (1940-2024)', examines the impact of military infrastructure, technology, and R&D on the rural communities of the Hebridean archipelago. She is interested in the knowledge-making practices of both military personnel and civilians, militarised imaginaries, livelihoods, and lore, as well as the impact of military decisions on the everyday. Her research engages with declassified military documents, oral history collections, and activist archives. She has conducted fieldwork in both the Outer and Inner Hebrides.

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https://www.hps.cam.ac.uk/directory/ihar
https://www.linkedin.com/in/zsuzsannaihar