Alessandro Antonello is a senior research fellow in history at Flinders University in Adelaide. He is an environmental historian working on questions of international environmental protection, knowledge, policy, and geopolitics in the second half of the twentieth century, currently concentrating on the world ocean and Antarctica. He completed his PhD at the Australian National University in 2014 and has previously held research positions at the University of Oregon and the University of Melbourne. His first book, The Greening of Antarctica: Assembling an International Environment, was published by Oxford University Press in 2019. He has published in leading journals, including Environmental History and Environmental Humanities.