About

Dr. Anna Antonova currently works at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, LMU Munich, as director of environmental humanities development and as Co-I and the academic lead for the Bulgarian Black Sea Transition Coastal Laboratory in the Horizon Europe consortium EmpowerUs. In both capacities, and in her previous work, she has acquired experience managing diverse and complex projects, including in research and in 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.