As Senior Editor, Anja guides the development of Humans and Nature Press Digital as well as co-edits submissions to this publication. She spearheads the Questions For a Resilient Future’s Cosmos series—a series focused on reimagining our inter-connections with off-Earth environments. As Land Liaison, Anja inter-connects stories rising from the land at the Center’s new Libertyville home with the Humans And Nature Press Digital publication.
Anja also writes and searches out stories that help us reimagine our relationship to each other and to planet Earth as a whole. These stories range from deeper philosophical concepts, to reflections of wider-ranging historical perspectives, to the personal story within local places.
The central exploration in all of Anja’s work is grounded in re-imagining our relationship with the other-than-human, by unmasking modes of thought that uphold our cultural detachment from our natural history; and by helping to create new stories, which bridge this perceived gap between humans and the whole community of life.
Anja received her Master of Arts degree in Geography and Environmental Studies from Northeastern Illinois University and her Bachelor of Science degree in Biochemistry from University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana.
CONTRIBUTIONS TO HUMANS AND NATURE PRESS DIGITAL:
- Three Perspectives on Buckthorn Relationship and Land Reciprocity
- Darkreconstruction
- Timefulness: A Geologist’s Story—Interview with Marcia Bjornerud
- Art in the Anthropocene
- Landscape Art? An Interview with Sandra Dal Poggetto
- An Ethical Journey into Deep Time
- Democracy and The Climate Crisis
- Pro-Aesthetic Language: Natural Treasures vs. Natural Resources
- A Language to Embody Place: Dynamic, Braided, Wild
- Being in Relationship, with Nature?
- Wild Places in Urban Centers
- Setting Ethics Free?
- A Philosophical Debate
- Morals and Evolutionary Biology
- Universal Morality?
- The Wild and Not-So-Wild City Creature Neighbors at, by, and in My House
- Re-wilding Our Urban Ethics and Politics?
- “Morals and Evolutionary Biology” Anja Claus on Medium
- “Universal Morality” Anja Claus on Medium