Senior Fellow
(also Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia)
Environmental History, Museum studies, History of Biodiversity Sciences, Conservation in Arid Zone Australia, World History, History of Australian Science, Ecological Humanities
Phone: +61 2 6125 5016
Fax: + 61 (0)2 6125 0746
E-mail: libby.robin@anu.edu.au

Libby Robin has a joint appointment in the Fenner School and as Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia. She is an environmental historian with a PhD in the History of Science (Melb). She coordinates the Australasian Environmental History Network.

Professional Activities

• Editorial boards include Historical Records of Australian Science, Environment and History (UK), Australian Humanities Review and Transforming Cultures (India);
• National Committee for the History and Philosophy of Science (Australian Academy of Science)

Academic Highlights

• 2009 Whitley Medal for Landmark Zoological Publication for Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country
• 2007 NSW Premier's History Prize in Australian History for How a Continent Created a Nation;
• 2003 Victorian Premier's Literary Prize for Science Writing for The Flight of the Emu

Selected Publications

Robin­­, Libby, Robert Heinsohn and Leo Joseph (eds) Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country, Melbourne, CSIRO Publishing, 2009.

Libby Robin 'New science for sustainability in an ancient land', in Sverker Sörlin and Paul Warde (eds) Nature's End: History and the Environment, London and New York, Palgrave MacMillan 2009.

Robin, Libby 'The Eco-humanities as literature: a new genre?, Australian Literary Studies, 23(3), May 2008, 290-304.

Robin, Libby and Mike Smith, 'Australian Environmental History: Ten Years On', Environment and History, 14(2), May 2008, 1-4.

Libby Robin How a continent created a nation (UNSW Press, 2007). http://www.unswpress.com.au/isbn/0868408913.htm

Libby Robin and Will Steffen, 'History for the Anthropocene' History Compass 2007. http://www.blackwell-compass.com/subject/history/section_home?section=hico-world

Libby Robin, 'Weird and wonderful: The first objects of the National Historical Collection' reCollections 1(2) September 2006. http://recollections.nma.gov.au/issues/vol_1_no_2/papers/weird_and_wonderful/

Mandy Martin, Libby Robin and Mike Smith Strata: deserts past, present and future (Mandy Martin, 2005). http://fennerschool.anu.edu.au/publications/books/pdfs/strata.pdf