{"type": {"key": "/type/author"}, "bio": "Tom Griffiths is a Professor of History in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University, Canberra, and Director of the Centre for Environmental History at ANU. His research, writing and teaching are in the fields of Australian social, cultural and environmental history, the comparative environmental history of settler societies, the writing of non-fiction, and the history of Antarctica. Tom\u2019s books and essays have won prizes in history, science, literature, politics and journalism. His most recent monograph, Slicing the Silence: Voyaging to Antarctica (UNSW Press and Harvard University Press, 2007), won the Queensland and NSW Premiers\u2019 awards for Non-Fiction and was the joint winner of the Prime Minister\u2019s Prize for Australian History in 2008.", "links": [{"title": "Australian National University faculty profile", "url": "https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/griffiths-tr", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}, {"title": "Australian National University emeritus profile", "url": "https://history.cass.anu.edu.au/people/emeritus-professor-tom-griffiths-0#acton-tabs-link--tabs-0-row_2-3", "type": {"key": "/type/link"}}], "photos": [8224938], "personal_name": "Griffiths, Tom", "birth_date": "1957", "key": "/authors/OL447681A", "alternate_names": ["Professor Thomas Griffiths"], "name": "Tom Griffiths", "latest_revision": 3, "revision": 3, "created": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2008-04-01T03:28:50.625462"}, "last_modified": {"type": "/type/datetime", "value": "2024-03-02T19:50:51.951731"}}