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Thom van Dooren is an Associate Professor (continuing) and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the University of Sydney’s Department of Gender and Cultural Studies and Sydney Environment Institute. He also holds a joint appointment as Professor II at the University of Oslo’s Oslo School of Environmental Humanities. His research bridges philosophy, cultural studies, and environmental science, focusing on species extinctions, ethical entanglements with threatened species, and the cultural dimensions of ecological loss.
Van Dooren completed his BA (Honours) and PhD at the Australian National University’s Fenner School of Environment and Society. He co-founded the Environmental Humanities journal and played a pivotal role in establishing Australia’s first Environmental Humanities undergraduate program at the University of New South Wales. His visiting positions include the University of California, Santa Cruz; MIT; and the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.
Research Interests: Van Dooren’s work explores extinction’s philosophical, ethical, and cultural implications, emphasizing stories of species decline and multispecies coexistence. His books, such as Flight Ways (2014) and The Wake of Crows (2019), blend ethnographic fieldwork with philosophical inquiry, challenging anthropocentric narratives in conservation.
Awards: He has received an ARC Future Fellowship (2017–2021), an ARC Discovery Project Grant (2015–2017), and a Humboldt Research Fellowship (2014–2016). His work has been translated into multiple languages, including French and Japanese.
Labs/Teams: He collaborates with interdisciplinary groups, including the Sydney Environment Institute and the Oslo School of Environmental Humanities, to advance critical perspectives on environmental crises and multispecies justice.
