Dr Libby Robin

Libby Robin

Dr Libby Robin is an historian of science and environmental ideas.

Libby is a Senior Research Fellow at the National Museum of Australia's Centre for Historical Research and a Senior Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University.

Libby has published widely in history, Australian studies, museum studies, environmental science and the ecological humanities. Her most recent book, How a Continent Created a Nation, won the New South Wales Premier's Prize for Australian History in 2007. Her history of ornithology in Australia, The Flight of the Emu, won the inaugural Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for Science Writing in 2003.

Hear Libby in a conversation with novelist Nick Drayson about history, fiction and the environment at our audio on demand page.

Libby also coordinates the Australasian Environmental History Network.

Phone: +61 2 6125 5016 or +61 2 6208 5373
Fax +61 2 6208 5130
Email libby.robin@anu.edu.au

History of environmental science, activism, politics and policy, especially in Australia; comparative and world environmental history; environmental sensibility and national identity; environment in museums; ecological humanities.

• Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, book with Robert Heinsohn, Australian National University and Leo Joseph, CSIRO, to be published by NMA Press.
• Producing Biodiversity: A History of Science in Australia's Desert Lands, with Deborah Rose, Australian National University. Australian Research Council Discovery Project 0665034, 2006-2010.
• Integrated History and future of People on Earth - IHOPE Australian chapter, part of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Program.
• World Congress on Environmental History 2009 - member of International Preparation Committee.
• History and Sustainability Project (UK) (see presentation 'The Big Here and the Long Now').

History of environmental science, activism, politics and policy, especially in Australia; comparative environmental history; environmental sensibility and national identity; environment in museums; history of Australian science.

Libby Robin, How a Continent Created a Nation, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2007.

Libby Robin, The Flight of the Emu: A Centenary History of Ornithology in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 2001.

Libby Robin, Defending the Little Desert: The Rise of Ecological Consciousness in Australia, Melbourne University Press, Carlton, 1998.

Mandy Martin, Libby Robin and Mike Smith, Strata: Deserts Past, Present and Future, M Martin, Mandurama, Canberra, 2006.

R Quentin Grafton, Libby Robin and Robert J Wasson (eds), Understanding the Environment: Bridging the Disciplinary Divides, UNSW Press, Sydney, 2005.

Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds), A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2005.

Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds), Ecology and Empire: Environmental History of Settler Societies, Keele University Press, Edinburgh, 1997.

Libby Robin, 'Advance Acacia Fair', in Melissa Harper and Richard White, Australian Symbols, Sydney UNSW Press/NMA Press (forthcoming 2009).

Libby Robin and Mike Smith, 'Australian Environmental History: Ten Years On', Environment and History, vol. 14 no. 2 (forthcoming May 2008).

Libby Robin, 'The Eco-humanities as literature: a new genre?', Australian Literary Studies (forthcoming May 2008).

Libby Robin, 'New science for sustainability in an ancient land', in Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde (eds), Spaces, Connections, Boundaries: Reconsidering Environmental History, Palgrave MacMillan, London and New York (forthcoming 2008).

Libby Robin and Mike Smith, 'Science in place and time: archaeology, ecology and environmental history', in Chris Dickman, Daniel Lunney and Shelley Burgin (eds), Animals of Arid Australia: Out on their Own?, Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales, Mosman, 2007, pp. 188-196.

Libby Robin, 'Ecology and identity: Australians caring for deserts', in David Callahan (ed.), Australia: Who Cares?, Australian Public Intellectual Network and European Association for the Study of Australia, Perth, 2007, pp. 85-105.

Libby Robin, 'Home and away: Australian sense of place', Australian Humanities Review, 2007, issue 41.

Libby Robin and Will Steffen, 'History for the Anthropocene', History Compass, August 2007, vol. 5, iss. 5, pp. 1694-1719.

Libby Robin, 'Weird and wonderful: the first objects of the National Historical Collection', reCollections, 2006, vol. 1, no. 1.

Libby Robin, 'Migrants and nomads', in Tim Sherratt, Tom Griffiths and Libby Robin (eds), A Change in the Weather: Climate and Culture in Australia, National Museum of Australia Press, Canberra, 2005, pp. 42-53.

Libby Robin, 'The platypus frontier: eggs, Aborigines and empire in nineteenth-century Queensland', in Deborah Rose and Richard Davis (eds), Dislocating the frontier: essaying the mystique of the Australian outback, ANU E Press, Canberra, 2005, pp. 99-120.

Libby Robin and Tom Griffiths, 'Environmental history in Australasia', Environment and History, 2004, vol. 10, no. 4, pp. 439-74.

Libby Robin, 'Collections and the nation: science, history and the National Museum of Australia', Historical Records of Australian Science, 2003, vol. 14, no. 3, pp. 251-89.

Libby Robin, 'Nationalising nature', Journal of Australian Studies, 2002, vol. 73, pp. 13-26.

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