Anna Varga

Pécs

Anna Varga is a biologist, a forest pedagogist and a weaver. In her PhD, she worked on ethnobiology, environmental history and vegetation science of forest grazing and wood pastures. She developed local and traditional, and art based environmental education projects about wood pastures and local protected sites. She is a former Carson Fellow 2019-2020. Currently, she works as a postdoctoral research fellow in the Environmental Humanities Research Group of the Department of European Ethnology – Cultural Anthropology, University of Pécs in Hungary. Her postdoc project title: „Environment and society transformation of common forest and pasture use in the 18th and 19th centuries and its contemporary effects in Southern Transdanubia” (NKFIH PD 135651, 2020-2023).