
Hana Manjusak

Hana is a PhD candidate in Dr. Bilal Butt’s Critical Environmental Geopolitics Research Group and a Graduate Student Associate at UMich's Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (CREES). 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’s research is situated at the intersection of war, peace, and the environment. Using a case study of demining in Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), she employs ethnographic and participatory methods to explore the transformative sociopolitical and environmental challenges of post-war landscapes, guided by theories of new materialism and critical geopolitics. Her work connects the fields of political ecology, international relations, and science and technology studies through questions of meaning, power, and temporality.