Member Bio
Eunice Blavascunas is a cultural anthropologist and research associate at College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine, where she researches land and conservation conflicts in relation to parks and protected areas. After receiving her PhD in cultural anthropology from the University of California Santa Cruz in 2008, she went on to become a social science teaching fellow at the University of Washington's Program on the Environment (2008–2010), held a postdoctoral appointment at Miami University’s Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies (2011), and worked as a Research Associate at the Schoodic Education and Research Center Institute in Winter Harbor, Maine (2012–2013). At the Rachel Carson Center she will be writing her forthcoming book Of Forests and Time: Reworking Communist and Peasant Pasts in the Bialowieza Forest, an ethnographic and historical account Europe’s last lowland old growth forest, which sits on the border between Poland and Belarus.