Our team
Alessandro Antonello
Flinders University, AustraliaAlessandro Antonello is a senior research fellow in history at Flinders University, Adelaide. He is the author of The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment (Oxford University Press, 2019) and numerous other articles and book chapters on the environmental and international history of the Antarctic and other global environmental themes, including oceans and the cryosphere, in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. He currently holds an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellowship for a project on the international environmental history of the world ocean since 1945.
Alison Bashford
University of New South WalesAlison Bashford FBA is Laureate Professor of History at the University of New South Wales. She is chief investigator on ‘Gondwanaland and Antipodal Histories’ (AHRC) and ‘Antipodean Geology: A Modern History of Southern Hemisphere Earth (ARC). She is editor most recently of New Earth Histories (University of Chicago Press, forthcoming, with Adam Bobbette and Emily Kern) and author of An Intimate History of Evolution (University of Chicago Press, 2022) https://abashford.com/
Pratik Chakrabati
University of HoustonPratik Chakrabati is professor of history at the University of Houston. He is chief investigator of Gondwanaland and Antipodal Histories (AHRC), and author most recently of Inscriptions of Nature: Geology and the Naturalization of Antiquity (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2020).
Jarrod Hore
University of New South WalesJarrod Hore is Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program at UNSW Sydney, and postdoctoral research fellow. He is author of Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism (University of California Press, 2022).
Gregory Cushman
Kansas UniversityGregory Cushman is Associate Professor of International Environmental History at Kansas University and author of Guano and the Opening of the Pacific World: A Global Ecological History (Cambridge University Press, 2013).
Saul Dubow
University of CambridgeSaul Dubow is Smuts Professor of Commonwealth History at the University of Cambridge, and author most recently of The Scientific Imagination in South Africa 1700 to the Present (Cambridge University Press, 2021), with William Beinart.
Bodhisattva Kar
University of Cape TownBodhisattva Kar is senior lecturer in history at the University of Cape Town. He is editor most recently of New Cultural Histories of India: Materiality and Practices (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 2013), with Partha Chatterjee and Tapati Guha-Thakurta.
Australian Steering Group
Suzanne Hand
University of New South WalesSuzanne Hand is emeritus professor in the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental sciences at UNSW. Her research interests include palaeontology, paleogeography, paleoecology, and biogeography and she has published widely on fossil mammals, Cenozoic ecologies, and continuing climate and environmental change throughout Australia, New Zealand, and Oceania. Between 2017 and 2020 she directed the PANGEA Research Centre, focusing on palaeontology, geobiology and earth archives.
Libby Robin
Australian National UniversityLibby Robin is emeritus professor in the history of science and environmental history at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University. Across a long career Libby has established herself as a globally significant voice in environmental history and the environmental humanities. Among her most recent work is the path-breaking book (with Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin) The Environment: A History of the Idea (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2018). She has also worked in and with museums, including the National Museum of Australia.
Lynette Russell
Monash UniversityLynette Russell AM is Laureate Professor of Indigenous Studies at Monash University and director of the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. She currently holds an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship for the project “Global Encounters & First Nations People”. Her work in Australian and global Indigenous histories has been path-breaking, and her publications have covered a wide array of subjects, from the early Australian whaling and sealing industries, colonial histories, Aboriginal natural knowledges, and museums and material cultures.
Simon Ville
University of WollongongSimon Ville is professor of economics and business history at the University of Wollongong and is one of Australia’s pre-eminent economic historians. Simon’s work has ranged widely across Australia’s economic and business history, and his research has also recently covered the commercial history of museum specimens and their global trade in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. In the 2022–23 US academic year he will be the Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Chair in Australian Studies at Harvard University.
Sabin Zahirovic
University of SydneySabin Zahirovic is a Robinson Fellow, and DECRA Fellow 2021–24, in the School of Geosciences at the University of Sydney. His research focusses on the plate-mantle system, especially in the Tethyan tectonic domain, including the India-Eurasia collision, Southeast Asian tectonics, the North-West Australian Shelf and New Guinea. He completed his PhD at the University of Sydney in 2015 with a thesis titled “Post-Pangea global plate kinematics and geodynamic implications for Southeast Asia”. Sabin was appointed to the Deep Carbon Observatory’s Executive Committee in mid-2019, and has been on the Geological Society of Australia’s NSW committee since 2017.