Associate Professor Thom Van Dooren
PhD ANU
ARC Future Fellow (2017-2021)
Member of Sydney Environment Institute
A14 - The Quadrangle
The University of Sydney
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Biographical details
Thom van Dooren is Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow (2017-2021) in the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies, and founding co-editor of the journal Environmental Humanities (Duke University Press). His research is based in the broad interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities, with particular grounding in environmental philosophy, cultural studies, and science and technology studies. His research and writing focuses on some of the many philosophical, ethical, cultural, and political issues that arise in the context of species extinctions and human entanglements with threatened species and places. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (2014), Making Worlds With Crows: A Multispecies Ethics (2018), and co-editor of Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death, and Generations (2017), all published by Columbia University Press.
He completed his BA (honours) at the Australian National University (2003), and his PhD in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, also at the ANU (2007).He then held a Research Councils of the UK Academic Fellowship at the University of Hull (UK) and a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at the University of Technology Sydney. From 2011-2017 he helped to establish and then worked with the Environmental Humanities group at the University of New South Wales. He took up his current position at the University of Sydney in 2018.
He has held visiting positions at the University of California at Santa Cruz (2005, 2010), the Environmental Humanities Laboratory at the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (2014), MIT (2018), the University of Hawai`i (2018) and been a Humboldt Research Fellow (Experienced Researchers) at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (2014, 2015, 2016).
Research interests
Thom’s research is situated in the broad interdisciplinary field of the environmental humanities. Particular topics of interest include: extinction studies; cultures and politics of biodiversity (esp. in Hawai`i and the Pacific); multispecies/animal/plant studies; feminist science studies; field philosophy; natureculture writing; storytelling; public humanities; extra-terrestrial ethics.
For further information see: www.thomvandooren.org
Teaching and supervision
From 2018-2021, Thom will be an ARC Future Fellow. As such, his teaching will be limited. Thom is available to supervise research students in any of the above listed areas.
Current research students
| Project title | Research student |
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| More-than-human participatory water governance | Hélène AHLBERGER LE DEUNFF |
| Imagining the Invisible City: remaking sustainability | Jamie WANG |
Current projects
I am currently engaged in two primary research projects:
1.) “Making worlds with crows”: This ARC-funded project focuses on changing human/crow relationships in the context of escalating processes of globalisation, biodiversity loss and climate change.
2.) “Extinction Stories: Inhabiting Landscapes of Loss”: This ARC-funded project focuses on the ways in which the loss of species, and efforts to prevent these losses, shape the contours of local people’s lives and the landscapes they inhabit in the Pacific, with a particular focus on Hawai`i.
Associations
- Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S)
- International Association for Environmental Philosophy (IAEP)
- Australian Animal Studies Association (AASA)
- Association for the Study of Literature, Environment and Culture – Australian/New Zealand (ASLEC-ANZ)
Awards and honours
- Australian Research Council Future Fellowship (2017-2021)
- Humboldt Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany (2014-2016)
- Delivered the Sir Keith Hancock Lecture to the 44th Symposium of the Australian Academy of the Humanities (2013)
- Invited Advisory Board member: Environmental Humanities Collaboratory, Linköping University, Sweden
- Editorial Board Member, Routledge Environmental Humanities book series
- Editorial Board Member, Sydney University Press Animal Publics book series
In the media
For a listing of my major contributions to media discussion and public scholarship, please see www.thomvandooren.org.
Significant Editorial Introductions
- Bastian, M. and T. van Dooren (2017) ‘The New Immortals: Immortality and Infinitude in the Anthropocene’Environmental Philosophy, 14.1
- Rose, D., T. van Dooren, M. Chrulew, S. Cooke, M. Kearnes and E. O’Gorman (2012)‘Thinking Through the Environment, Unsettling the Humanities’Environmental Humanities, 1
- Metcalf, J and T. van Dooren (2012) ‘Editorial Preface’ inTemporal Environments: Rethinking Time and Ecology, special issue ofEnvironmental Philosophy(Spring)
- Rose, D. and T. van Dooren (2011) “Introduction”Unloved Others: Death of the Disregarded in the Time of Extinctions, special issue ofAustralian Humanities Review, 50
Review Articles
- van Dooren, T. (2018) “Temporal promiscuities in the Chthulucene: A reflection on Donna Haraway’sStaying with the Trouble,”Dialogues in Human Geography, 8.1, pp. 91-101.
- van Dooren T. (2009): “Thinking with Dogs: A Review of Donna Haraway’s When Species Meet”Subjectivity, 28
- van Dooren T. (2007): “Sheep Futures: A Review of Sarah Franklin’s Dolly Mixtures,”Australian Humanities Review, 42
Translations of my work
French
- van Dooren, T. (2016) “Le blues des grues blanches: Violence du soin dans la préservation des espèces” Judith Chouraqui, Cyril Lecerf Maulpoix, Romain André and Grégoire Chamayou (trans.),Jef Klak, 30.
- van Dooren, T. (2016) “La partie des manchots” inRevolutions Animales, Karine Lou Matignon (ed.), Coédition ARTE éditions / Les Liens qui Libérent.
- van Dooren, T. (2016) “L’arche des morts-vivants, un espoir ?” inRevolutions Animales, Karine Lou Matignon (ed.), Coédition ARTE éditions / Les Liens qui Libérent.
Portuguese
- van Dooren, T., E. Kirksey and U. Münster (2016) “Estudos multiespécies: cultivando artes de atentividade” Susana Dias (trans.),ClimaCom, 3.7.
Selected grants
2017
- Extinction stories: Inhabiting landscapes of loss in the Anthropocene; van Dooren T; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Future Fellowships (FT).
2015
- Encountering Crows: Living with wildlife in a changing world; van Dooren T; Australian Research Council (ARC)/Discovery Projects (DP).
2014
- Encountering crows: world-making with hunters and scientists in Germany; van Dooren T; Alexander-von-Humboldt Foundation/Humboldt Research Fellowship.
Selected publications
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Extinction Studies: Stories of Time, Death and Generations (Columbia University Press, 2017)
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Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia University Press, 2014)
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Vulture (Reaktion Books, 2012)
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