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Hannah Heath is a PhD candidate on the five-year research project “(Dis)Empowered Communities: A Comparative Study of Decommissioning Nuclear Sites,” which investigates the impact of nuclear decommissioning on local communities. She holds a BA in history from University of Groningen and an MA in environmental humanities from Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her MA thesis, she explored the role of mine waste in civil rights protest in the township of Soweto near Johannesburg, South Africa.
Her primary research interests revolve around the field of resource extraction and energy production and harnessing. She focuses on how marginalizing processes, such as colonialism, institutional racism, and capitalism, have shaped energy industries and how they continue to affect people, nonhuman animals, and the environment.