Andrea Gaynor is Professor of History at The University of Western Australia. Primarily an environmental historian, she pursues various questions relating to the historical relationships between people and places in diverse Australian contexts. She has published on topics as diverse as landscape art and feral cats, and her books include Harvest of the Suburbs: An environmental history of growing food in Australian cities (UWA Press, 2006). At present she is working with researchers from La Trobe University on an environmental history of the southern mallee lands of Australia, and a new project on nature and modernity in Australia.