Hana Manjusak
Hana is a PhD student in Dr. Bilal Butt’s Critical Environmental Geopolitics Research Group. Prior to the University of Michigan, she received her BS and MS degrees in International Affairs from Georgia Tech. She has worked alongside domestic and international policymakers while lobbying the U.S. congress for climate legislation, conducting environmental and political research for the State Department, and working on United Nations projects centered around mobilizing environmental and human rights initiatives.
MS, International Affairs, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2022
BS, International Affairs, Minor in Public Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2021
Hana is interested in analyzing war and peacebuilding through combined perspectives of political ecology, international relations, and science and technology studies. She has conducted participatory and ethnographic research in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH) and is currently examining the environmental and socio-political dimensions of post-war development paradigms while integrating theories of new materialism and sociotechnics into her work.