Cameron Muir is the author of The Broken Promise of Agricultural Progress: An Environmental History (Routledge 2014), which was shortlisted in the 2015 NSW Premier’s History Awards. His research interests include histories of place and emotions. He won the Griffith Review Emerging Writers’ Prize for non-fiction, was a finalist for the Eureka Prize for Science Journalism and was runner-up in the Bragg Prize for Science Writing. In 2013/14 he was a Fellow at the Rachel Carson Center in Munich.

He helped complete Tony McMichael’s posthumous book, Climate Change and the Health of Nations: Famines, Fevers and the Fate of Populations (OUP 2017) and is co-editor with Kirsten Wehner and Jenny Newell of Living with the Anthropocene: Love, Loss and Hope in the Face of Environmental Crisis (NewSouth, 2019). 

He was Curator of Stories on a project called ‘Localising the Anthropocene’ with the National Museum of Australia and Sydney Environment Institute. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the University of Western Australia (with Assoc. Prof. Andrea Gaynor) exploring ‘shadow places’ and histories of recovery and adaptation in the Australian Anthropocene. 

Twitter: @cimuir