Luke Keogh is a curator and historian. He received his doctorate in environmental history from the University of Queensland, Australia. In 2012–2014, he worked in Munich as a curator of the special exhibition "Welcome to the Anthropocene: The Earth in Our Hands" created by the Deutsches Museum and the RCC. While curating this exhibition he encountered the Wardian case, which is the focus of his current research. Invented in 1829, these plant boxes are named after the surgeon and amateur naturalist Nathanial Bagshaw Ward who accidentally discovered that plants enclosed in airtight glass cases can survive for long periods without water. It revolutionized the movement of plants around the globe.

Keogh has received many awards and prizes for his work. In 2010, he was awarded the National Museum of Australia Prize for the History of Science for his essay on the pituri plant, an Australian Aboriginal resource. Recently, he won the 2015–2016 Sargent Award from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University.

Visit Luke's website here: https://www.lukekeogh.com/.