Ruth Morgan

Membership:  2015

Member Bio

Ruth Morgan is an environmental historian and historian of science with a particular focus on Australia, the British Empire, and the Indian Ocean world. After completing her doctoral studies at The University of Western Australia in Perth, she joined the History Department at Monash University in Melbourne in mid-2012. She is currently Director of the ANU Centre for Environmental History.

In 2024, Ruth became Secretary for International Consortium of Environmental History Organizations, for which she has previously served as a board member.

Read more on her website: https://www.ruthamorgan.com/.

Projects

Publications

  • With Andrea Gaynor, Margaret Cook, Lionel Frost, Jenny Gregory, Ruth Morgan, Martin Shanahan, Peter Spearritt, Susan Avey, Nathan Etherington, Elizabeth Gralton, and Daniel Martin. “Drought, Mud, Filth, and Flood: Water Crises in Australian Cities, 1880s–2010s.” Environment & Society Portal, Virtual Exhibitions 2019, no. 3. Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society.
  • Running Out? Water in Western Australia. Crawley: UWA Publishing, 2015.
  • "Farming on the Fringe: Climate Variability in the Western Australian Wheatbelt." In Climate, Science and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand, edited by James Beattie, Emily O’Gorman, and Matthew Henry, 159–76. New York: Palgrave, 2014.
  • "Imagining a Greenhouse Future: Scientific and Literary Depictions of Climate Change in 1980s Australia," Australian Humanities Review 57 (2014): 43–60.
  • "Histories for an Uncertain Future: Environmental History and Climate Change," Australian Historical Studies 44 (2013): 350–60.
  • "Diagnosing the Dry: Historical Case Notes from South-West Western Australia, 1945–2007," Osiris 26 (2011): 89–108.

Address

Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society
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