About

Dr. Anna S. Antonova is currently based at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society (RCC) at LMU Munich where she serves as director of environmental humanities development. From spring of 2026, she will be the PI of the five-year transdisciplinary research project "Convivial Waterfronts" at the School of Social Sciences and Technology at TUM. She was previously Co-I and academic lead for the Bulgarian Black Sea Transition Coastal Laboratory in the Horizon Europe consortium EmpowerUs. Throughout her academic career, she has gained extensive experience with managing diverse and complex projects across research, outreach, and administration, including the design, development, and legal establishment of a new MA program.

As a researcher, her expertise lies in analyzing societal transformations and environmental governance in the EU using a variety of methods and approaches, including policy analysis, in-depth interviews, spatial analysis (ArcGIS), Q method, surveys, document and archival research, and knowledge co-production. She has taught methods and research design at the master's level. Additionally, her teaching has spanned various classes in the broad environment and society spectrum, including among others seminars on common property and environmental justice, critical tourism studies, and the MA introductory course to environment and society.

Anna was previously a Marie Skłodowska-Curie research fellow as part of the ENHANCE ITN network at the University of Leeds, where she wrote her doctoral dissertation conducting fieldwork on the Yorkshire North Sea and Bulgarian Black Sea coastlines.