Libby Robin is an environmental historian and curator-at-large, who has worked at the National Museum of Australia, Canberra and with museums in Copenhagen, Edinburgh, Munich and New York. She was advisor to the environmental history team at the National Museum of Estonia, Tartu in 2014, and an invited lecturer in an intensive museums graduate course in Stavanger, Norway in 2019. She is Emeritus Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society at the Australian National University, Canberra and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities (elected 2013).She holds a doctorate in history and philosophy of science from the University of Melbourne, undergraduate degrees in arts and science and a graduate diploma in education. She is author of over 100 chapters and journal articles in environmental history, museum practice and the history of ecology. Her 16 books include Curating the Future: Museums, Communities and Climate Change (Routledge 2017, edited with Jennifer Newell and Kirsten Wehner) The Environment: A History of the Idea (Johns Hopkins UP, 2018, with Paul Warde and Sverker Sörlin), How a Continent Created a Nation (NSW Premier’s Australian History Prize 2007) and The Flight of the Emu (MUP, Victorian Premier’s Literary Prize 2003). Her new work includes a book-in-progress that considers the role of museums in the Anthropocene.

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