I. (Iva) Pesa, PhD

2020- 

Member of YARN (Young Arts Network)

2019-

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Groningen

2017-2019

Research Associate in Environmental History, University of Oxford (project: Environmental history of the Zambian and Congolese Copperbelt, 1950-2000)

2014-2016

Post-doctoral researcher, Centre for Frugal Innovation in Africa, LDE collaboration, African Studies Centre, Leiden (project: Frugal innovation in energy, water, housing and mobile money on the Zambian Copperbelt)

2014

PhD in African History, Leiden University, the Netherlands (published as Roads through Mwinilunga: A history of social change in northwest Zambia, Brill, 2019)

I have taught and designed a broad range of African history, contemporary history and economic history courses at Leiden University between 2011 and 2016

I am on the editorial board of the Journal for the History of Environment and Society: http://www.brepols.net/Pages/BrowseBySeries.aspx?TreeSeries=JHES

I am on the editorial board of Itinerario (focusing on Africa and environmental topics): https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/itinerario