- Associate Professor in Environmental History, University of Tasmania
Alessandro Antonello is associate professor in environmental history at the University of Tasmania in Hobart. He is an environmental historian working on questions of international environmental protection, knowledge, policy, and geopolitics in the second half of the twentieth century, currently concentrating on the world ocean and Antarctica. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2014 and has previously held positions at Flinders University, the University of Melbourne, and the University of Oregon. His first book, The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He has published in leading journals, including Environmental History and Environmental Humanities.
Experience
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2025–presentAssociate Professor in Environmental History, University of Tasmania
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2020–2024Senior Research Fellow, Flinders University
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2019–2019ARC Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
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2016–2019McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Melbourne
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2014–2016Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oregon
Education
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2014Australian National University, PhD in History
Publications
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2019The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment, Oxford University Press
Grants and Contracts
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2025Our Blue Backyard: A History of Australian Cities and Marine Environments
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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2023Cities and Their Coastal Environments: Exploring an Urban Blue Humanities
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- British Academy
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2021Antipodean Geology: A Modern History of Southern Hemisphere Earth
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
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2019An international environmental history of the ‘World Ocean’, 1950s-2000s
- Role:
- CI
- Funding Source:
- Australian Research Council
Professional Memberships
- Australian Historical Association
- Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network
Research Areas
- Historical Studies (2103)
Contact Alessandro for
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- Speaking request
- Consulting / Advising
- Research collaboration
- Research supervision
- Location: Hobart, Australia
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