Annika Bowman

In the Wake of Dead Ice: Glacial Remains in Iceland

Annika is a DPhil student interested in how people live with, make sense of, and respond to environmental loss. Her doctoral research examines glacial retreat in the U.S. Cascade Range. Drawing on cultural geography and the environmental humanities, she uses interviews, participant observation, and creative methods to explore how disappearing glaciers are studied, experienced, and remembered, and how relationships with ice change as it recedes.

Previously, her master’s research investigated competitive birding culture in the United States. There, she analyzed engagements with threatened avian environments, exploring both what it means to attune to birds and broader environments and what it means to “win” in a time marred by species loss. Annika holds an MSc (Distinction) in Nature, Society and Environmental Governance from Oxford and a BA (magna cum laude) in Environmental Studies from Dartmouth College.

Contact her at annika.bowman@ouce.ox.ac.uk 
 

Awards and Funding

• ESRC Grand Union Overseas Fieldwork Grant, University of Oxford (2025)
• ESRC Grand Union Doctoral Training Partnership Award, University of Oxford (2024–2028)
• Mortimer May Studentship, Hertford College, University of Oxford (2024)
• Examiners’ Prize for Best Dissertation, University of Oxford (2024)
• Donella Meadows Prize, Dartmouth College (2021)
• William C. Spengemann Award in Writing, Dartmouth College (2021)
• Citations for Academic Excellence in Creative Writing, Dartmouth College (2020, 2021)

• Bowman, A. (2026) Fissures: A Choose-Your-Own-Adventure Story. Roadsides, 15: 51-65.
• Bowman, A. (2025) Draught. In, Zhang, V. and Anderson, B. (eds.) The Promise of Cultural Geography, Cultural Geography (Un)limited Editions, p. 65.