Iain McCalman is a historian with a strong sense of how narrative transforms us. His most recent book is Delia Akeley and the Monkey: A Human-Animal Story of Captivity, Patriarchy and Nature (2022).
Previous books include Darwin’s Armada (2009) and The Reef— A Passionate History (2013), both highly-acclaimed and prizewinning. Formerly Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Sydney Environment Institute at the University of Sydney, he is currently a Fellow and former President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, and a Fellow of three other Australian learned academies. He is also a Professor Emeritus at the Australian National University and a Professor in the Australian Catholic University’s Research Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences.
