Anna is a PhD researcher at the Athena Institute of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Her research project focuses on Dutch agricultural-related industries in relation to environmental issues (1970-2000). Specifically, the project is centred around Dutch discourses on environmental issues concerned with the rising role of agricultural-related industries, such as the pesticide and animal feed industry. Therefore the roles of various actors, for example, policymakers, experts, environmental organisations, politicians, lobby groups, farmers and industry actors are being analysed. With that, the project not only tries to add a different perspective on farming in a context of political and societal change, globalisation and environmental crises, it also aims to contribute to our understanding of a past that is so much intertwined with the future of our food system.
Anna is co-founder of the Food and Agricultural History Network Netherlands. She holds a BA and RMA in History from the University of Amsterdam.
Broader interests include: political, environmental and social history, memory culture, agricultural history and transdisciplinary research.
