Nancy Cushing is Associate Professor in History at the University of Newcastle. An environmental historian whose interests range from coal mining to human-other animal relations, she was co-editor of Animals Count: How Population Size Matters in Animal-Human Relations (Routledge 2018), author of A History of Crime in Australia (Routledge 2023) and hopes to see a New History of Australia in 15 Animals out later this year (Bloombury).
