Elizabeth Anne de Quetteville (Libby) Robin is a Historian of Science and the Environment who has published extensively on an international level. She is the author of The Flight of the Emu (2001), Defending the Little Desert (1998) and many other publications, for which she has received several awards.
Robin was a Senior Fellow (ANU) and Senior Research Fellow (NMA) at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, and was subsequently appointed Professor there.
She has also been a Guest Professor at the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden (2011-2014).
1994
1994
Career position - Lecturer, School of Environmental Planning - University of Melbourne
1995
1996
Career position - Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Politics Department, La Trobe University, Bundoora
1997
1998
Career position - Australian Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow, Humanities Research Centre, Australian National University, Canberra
1998
1999
Career position - Curator, People and the Environment Section, National Museum of Australia, Canberra.
1999
2006
Career position - Fellow (from 1999-2002 Research Fellow) Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies, Institute of Advanced Studies, Australian National University, Canberra
2002
2002
Award - Crosbie Morrison Memorial Lecturer, Nature and Nation, Museum Victoria
2003
2003
Award - Winner, Victorian Premier's Literary Awards, inaugural biennial Science Writing Prize (2003) for Flight of the Emu
2007
2007
Award - Winner, New South Wales' Premier's History Awards, Australian History Prize for How a Continent Created a Nation
2007
2011
Career position - Senior Fellow, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra
2007
2013
Career position - Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Historical Research, National Museum of Australia, Canberra
2009
2009
Award - Winner, Whitley Medal for Landmark Zoological Publication (Royal Zoological Society of New South Wales) for Boom and Bust: Bird Stories for a Dry Country
2010
2015
Career position - Joint Editor, Historical Records of Australian science
2011
2014
Career position - Guest Professor, Division of History of Science and Technology, Faculty of Architecture and Building, KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Kungliga Tekniska högskolan), Stockholm, Sweden
2012
2012
Career position - Professor, Fenner School of Environment and Society, Australian National University, Canberra
2021
2021
Award - Dyason Lecturer; Australasian Association for the History, Philosophy and Social Studies of Science and Society