EP #349 - 09.30.2021 - Environmental History in COVID Times

Today I talk about environmental history and activism during the COVID pandemic with Andrea Gaynor, Katie Holmes, and Ruth Morgan.

Prof Andrea Gaynor is an environmental historian and ARC Future Fellow at the University of Western Australia, where she is researching histories of urban wild nature. She is vice-president of the European Society for Environmental History and a convenor of the Beeliar Group of Professors for Environmental Responsibility.

Prof Katie Holmes is an environmental historian teaching at La Trobe University in Melbourne and is Director of the Centre for the Study of the Inland. She writes on agricultural history and is currently working on two separate projects, one on drought and one on water. She also works in gender and oral history. 

https://scholars.latrobe.edu.au/kbholmes

Dr Ruth Morgan teaches at the Australian National University, where she is the Director of the Centre for Environmental History. She is writing an international history of climate change, under contract with Bloomsbury, and she is a Lead Author in Working Group II of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s Sixth Assessment Report.

https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/morgan-r