Iva Peša is an assistant professor in contemporary history at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where she teaches African and environmental history and coordinates the master’s program Un/sustainable Societies. Her research has focused on the social and environmental history of Zambia and the Democratic Republic of Congo. Her previous research project explored the environmental history of the Copperbelt, a highly industrialized copper mining area. This project examined narratives about pollution and environmental transformation through archives and oral history. She is currently developing a new research project that looks at environmental change on the South African Witwatersrand, the Zambian Copperbelt, and the Nigerian Niger Delta comparatively, using literary and musical sources in addition to oral history and ethnographic methods.