Research output per year
Research output per year
Personal profile
Biography
Director of the ANU Centre for Environmental History, Ruth is an environmental historian and historian of science with a particular focus on Australia, the British Empire, and the Indian Ocean world, living and working on the unceded lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples.
Her research has been generously supported by the Australian Research Council, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the Rachel Carson Center for Environment & Society.
She was previously based at Monash University (2012-2020), and completed her doctoral studies at the University of Western Australia.
Qualifications
BA, BEc, PhD (University of Western Australia); Graduate Certificate of Academic Practice (Monash)
Research Interests
- Environmental History
- History of Science
- Climate History
- Water History
- Environmental Humanities
Research student supervision
- Registered to supervise
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Climate Change and International History: Negotiating Science, Global Change, and Environmental Justice
Morgan, R. A., 1 Jan 2024, 1 ed. New York: Bloomsbury Publishing. 266 p.Research output: Book/Report › Book › peer-review
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Introduction
Beattie, J. & Morgan, R. A., 2024, In: International Review of Environmental History. 10, 1, p. 1-3 3 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Editorial › peer-review
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Public Health in a Transnational Context: Hong Kong and the Third Bubonic Plague Pandemic
Tang, Y. H. P., Frost, L., Morgan, R. & Gaynor, A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Journal of Urban History.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Sanitary Citizenship in the Settler Colonial City: Race, health, and hygiene in interwar urban Australia
Morgan, R., 7 Aug 2024, Critical approaches to the Australian blue humanities. Newlands, M. & Hansen, C. (eds.). Routledge Earthscan, p. 69-81 (Routledge Environmental Humanities).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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‘Propagandists for the Soil’: Gender, Erosion and the Murray Valley in the Mid-Twentieth Century
Morgan, R. A., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Australian Historical Studies.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Projects
- 5 Finished
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Contextualising the Climate Crisis: Climate change and the beginning of the crisis decades
25/06/24 → 31/12/24
Project: Research
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Understanding the water cultures of the Murray-Darling Basin
Jackson, S., Morgan, R., Head, L. & Holmes, K.
5/05/21 → 2/05/25
Project: Research
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Water and the Making of Urban Australia: a history since 1900
Gaynor, A., Morgan, R., Frost, L., Gregory, J., Shanahan, M. & Spearritt, P.
1/01/18 → 31/12/22
Project: Research
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Australindia: An environmental history of Australia, India and Empire
1/01/16 → 12/09/23
Project: Research