Richard Grove
| Richard H. Grove | |
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| Born | 1955 Cambridge, England |
| Citizenship | British |
| Fields | Environmental history |
| Institutions | Australian National University, University of Sussex |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge |
| Thesis | Conservation and colonial expansion: a study of the evolution of environmental attitudes and conservation policies on St Helena, Mauritius and in India, 1660–1860 (1988) |
| Known for | Green Imperialism (1995) |
| Spouse | Vinita Damodaran |
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Richard Hugh Grove (b 1955, Cambridge, UK) is a British historian, and one of the contemporary founders of environmental history as an academic field. His prizewinning book, Green Imperialism: Colonial Expansion, Tropical Island Edens and the Origins of Environmentalism 1600–1860 (1995), is widely praised for its exhaustive account of colonial environmental impacts and environmental thinking back to the 17th century.
Grove is the son of Cambridge climatologists Alfred Thomas Grove and Jean Mary Grove, née Clark, and is married to historian Vinita Damodaran of University of Sussex. His interdisciplinary training includes a BA in Geography from Oxford University (1979), MSc in Conservation biology from University College London (1980) and a PhD in History from the University of Cambridge (1988).
Grove was a Fellow of Clare Hall, and College Lecturer at Churchill College, University of Cambridge (1988–1990 and 1991–1992). He also held visiting appointments at the Institute of Advanced Studies of the Australian National University in Canberra and the Program in Agrarian Studies at Yale University. He spent a year at the Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars in Washington DC in the 1990s.
Grove became Professor and founded the Centre for World Environmental History at the University of Sussex in May 2002. He received a five-year research appointment at the Australian National University in 2006, funded by an ARC Discovery fellowship, but was unable to complete it. In 2006, Grove suffered a very serious car accident in Cooma, Australia, on his way back from the Manning Clark property "Ness" on the far south coast of New South Wales, and has been severely incapacitated since that time.
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