Zsuzsanna Dominika Ihar is currently in the final stages of her PhD in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. She is a member of the Wellcome Trust-supported research initiative, From Collection to Cultivation, and has co-convened the CRASSH research network Military Surplus since 2023. From October onwards, she’ll be a Landhaus Fellow at the Rachel Carson Centre.

Through archival and ethnographic research, her dissertation project examines the rural outlines (and afterlives) of the UK Military-Industrial Complex. Specifically, she traces the expansion of the military across the Hebridean archipelago since the Cold War, collecting stories of missile testing, wargames, biological weapon trials, and everyday life within garrison towns. Through her work, she aims to gather and collate impressions of the military left on the landscape and in archival documents, ‘unearthing’ in a double sense of the word.

Zsuzsanna will be exhibiting in the group show ‘River is/as’ curated by 16 Collective in collaboration with FieldARTS, which is part of Glasgow International Festival 2026.

Her research during FieldARTS follows the co-emergence of both militarisation and resource extraction in Scottish waters, with marine space appropriated and extracted for the generation of capital and geopolitical influence. This extends her work on ‘counter-surveying’ methods by scientific and activist groups in the region to track ‘sonic harm’ caused by live-fire exercises and other forms of military interference.