Jarrod Hore

Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian of settler colonial landscape photography, nature writing, and geology. Since 2019 he has been working at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, and is currently a Scientia Lecturer and Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program. 

Research

Jarrod’s research has been published in the Journal of World History, the Pacific Historical Review, and Australian Historical Studies and he is the co-editor Gondwanaland: Modern Histories of an Ancient Supercontinent (Pittsburgh, 2026). As a Koch Fellow he will be working on a project about South African diamonds, scarcity, and abundance in modern world history.

Publications

Jarrod's first book, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism (University of California Press), was published in 2022 and awarded the Australian Historical Association’s Marilyn Lake Prize for Transnational History in 2023. His second book, Deep Earth: How Colonial Geologists Rewrote Our Planet’s Story (Polity, 2027), tells the tale of how three generations of colonial geologists became expert mediums of a changing planet by searching the globe for minerals and resources.