Professor Martin Thomas

Martin Thomas is a cultural historian who specialises in Australian, Aboriginal and trans-national history. He has published in the areas of environmental history, landscape studies, cross-cultural encounter, expeditions and exploration, history of anthropology, and on the impact of sound recording and photography. He has written numerous visual art reviews and catalogue essays and also works as an oral-history interviewer for the National Library of Australia. He has had long experience as a broadcaster and maker of radio documentaries. His recent teaching at ANU includes courses on exploration, photography and public history.