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Personal profile
Biography
Associate Professor Emily O’Gorman’s research is situated within environmental history, more-than-human geography, and the interdisciplinary environmental humanities, and is primarily concerned with contested knowledges within broader cultural framings of authority, expertise, and landscapes. She holds a PhD from the Australian National University and is currently an Associate Professor at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her research has been supported by nationally competitive research grants as well as a Carson Writing Fellowship at the Rachel Carson Center, LMU, Munich from 2014-15. She is the author of Flood Country: An Environmental History of the Murray-Darling Basin (2012) and Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human Histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin (2021; Joint Winner AANZEHN Environmental History Book Prize 2023; Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner – 06. Ecology & Environment 2022; Finalist 2023 ALSE Creative Writing Book Award), and co-editor of Climate, Science, and Colonization: Histories from Australia and New Zealand (2014, with James Beattie and Matthew Henry) and Eco-Cultural Networks and the British Empire: New Views on Environmental History (2015, with Beattie and Edward Melillo). She co-leads the Environmental Humanities research group at Macquarie University, was a founding Associate Editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (2012-2014) and a founding co-editor of the Living Lexicon in that journal (2014-2020).
Teaching
I have convented units on environment and society, environmental justice in the Anthropocene, and theory and methods in research. I have also made significant teaching contributions in units on environmental and planning decision making, research methods, and the environmental humanities.
Research student supervision
I am currently taking on new PhD and Master of Research students in the following research areas: more-than-human geography; more-than-human histories; environmental history; environmental humanities; multispecies studies; river and wetlands histories and futures; histories of conservation.
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, Australian National University
Award Date: 11 Dec 2009
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Contested knowledge and more-than-human histories of wetlands Murray-Darling Basin, 1800 to the present
22/01/18 → …
Project: Research
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UC Led: Winanga-li Gunimaa Gali: Incorporating Cultural Values into Environmental Flows
Duncan, P., Moggridge, B., Wilson, J., Thompson, R., Lloyd, K., O'Gorman, E. & Suchet-Pearson, S.
1/01/24 → 30/07/24
Project: Research
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NSW Environmental Trust: Enabling Healthier Gomeroi/Kamilaroi Country through On-Country Classrooms
O'Gorman, E., Suchet-Pearson, S., McLean, J., Miller, F., Lloyd, K., Thompson, R. & Moggridge, B.
1/07/21 → 1/07/23
Project: Research
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Histories in, of and for More-than-Human worlds
O'Gorman, E. & Gaynor, A., 2024, The Routledge international handbook of More-than-Human studies. Franklin, A. (ed.). London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, p. 308-321 14 p.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter › peer-review
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Govind, P., Houston, D., Lim, M., McGregor, A., O'Gorman, E., Suchet-Pearson, S. & Symons, J., Jul 2024, In: Environmental Humanities. 16, 2, p. 426-432 7 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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The Routledge handbook of environmental history
O'Gorman, E. (ed.), San Martín, W. (ed.), Carey, M. (ed.) & Swart, S. (ed.), 2024, London ; New York: Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group. 478 p. (Routledge International Handbooks)Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book/Anthology › peer-review
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Legal pluralism on Dyarubbin: Country-as-Lore/Law in Western Sydney, Australia
Darug Ngurra, Dadd, L., Norman-Dadd, C., Narwal, H., Glass, P., Suchet-Pearson, S., O'Gorman, E., Houston, D., Graham, M., Scott, R. & Lemire, J., 2023, In: Geohumanities. 9, 2, p. 355-379 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Wayilwan women caring for Country: dynamic knowledges, decolonising historical methodologies, and colonial explorer journals
Flakelar, D. C. & O'Gorman, E., 2023, In: Journal of Australian Studies. 47, 1, p. 160-180 21 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
1 Citation (Scopus)
Prizes
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2022 Nautilus Book Awards Silver Winner – 06. Ecology & Environment
O'Gorman, Emily (Recipient), 2022
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2022 Research Excellence Prize. Faculty of Arts, Macquarie University
O'Gorman, Emily (Recipient), 2022
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Finalist 2023 ASLE Creative Writing Book Award
O'Gorman, Emily (Recipient), 2023
Prize: Other distinction
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World Congress of Environmental History Program Committee (External organisation)
Emily O'Gorman (Member)
2022 → 2024Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand Environmental History Network (External organisation)
Emily O'Gorman (Chair)
2021 → …Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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Executive Committee, Australian Historical Association (External organisation)
Emily O'Gorman (Member)
2020 → 2022Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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RCC Perspectives: Transformations in Environment and Society (Journal)
Christof Mauch (Editor), Ruth Morgan (Editor) & Emily O'Gorman (Editor)
2017Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
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Environmental Humanities (Journal)
Emily O'Gorman (Editor)
2014 → 2019Activity: Peer-review and editorial of research outputs › Editorial work
Press/Media
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Reimagining NSW: going beyond ‘wilderness’ and finding fresh ways to relate to our environment
Emily O'Gorman, Matthew Kearnes, Sandra Suchet-Pearson, Tanya Latty, Pascal Scherrer & Hannah E. Power
3/08/16
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Public Engagement Activities