Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian of settler colonial landscapes, nature writing, and geology. He is a Scientia Lecturer in the School of Humanities & Languages and Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney. His work on earthquake geology, wilderness photography, early environmentalism, and the logistics of the natural history trade has been published in the Pacific Historical...view more
Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian of settler colonial landscapes, nature writing, and geology. He is a Scientia Lecturer in the School of Humanities & Languages and Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program, University of New South Wales, Sydney. His work on earthquake geology, wilderness photography, early environmentalism, and the logistics of the natural history trade has been published in the Pacific Historical Review, Australian Historical Studies and the Journal of World History. His award-winning first book, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism was published by University of California Press in 2022.
My Awards
Marilyn Lake Prize for the best book in Australian Transnational History. Australian Historical Association, 2023.
Donna Coates Prize for the best first book to investigate Australia, Canada, and/or Aotearoa New Zealand. Australian, Canadian, and New Zealand Studies Network, 2022.
Shortlisted for the New South Wales Premier's History Awards (General Category), 2023.
Shortlisted for the WK Hancock Prize for the beast first book in any field of history. Australian Historical Association, 2024.
My Research Supervision
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Areas of supervision
I am interested in supervising honours and HDR candidates in the following fields: environmental history; the history of science; colonial history; transnational history; Australian history; the history of the American West; and the history of photography. I am happy to work with prospective candidates throughout the scholarship application process.
My Teaching
I currently teach regularly in the field of American history, convening A House Divided: The Making of Modern America (ARTS2150). This unit provides a comprehensive grounding in American history from the colonial era to the present, and focuses particularly on the peculiar 20th-century US histories of class, race, religion and global engagement. Over the course of the Term we explore how and why the world's oldest liberal democracy has become such a vital and fraught force in the contemporary world.
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