Biography

Kristen Anthony studies environmental, oceanic, coastal, and cultural history with a special emphasis on animal histories and changes in marine biodiversity over time. She holds a Master’s in History from CSU Fullerton, and a BA from the University of Greenwich. 

Education

  • BA University of Greenwich, 7/2012
  • MA CSU – Fullerton
  • Other Employment

    • Assistant Curator for Special Projects, The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, 11/01/2021 – 08/01/2025
    • Education Associate, Laguna Art Museum, 07/01/2017 – 10/30/2021
  • Research Keywords

    Environmental history, ocean history, maritime history, history of climate change, animal history, visual history

  • Conference Presentations

    • “Art, Climate, Action: Stories from the Nineteenth Century” Sustainable C.H.A.N.G.E.S. Youth Summit , 2024-2025
    • “Climate Anxiety & Eco Grief,” Inside Out: Moods and Feelings in Environmental History American Society of Environmental History , 2024-2025
    • “From Fossils to Fossil Fuels: The History of Science on Display” Society of Nineteenth Century Americanists , 2023-2024
    • “Struggle and Abundance: Nineteenth Century Whaling and Visual Culture” American Society of Environmental History , 2023-2024
    • “The Doleful Shipwreck of Their Souls: Seafarers and the Sea in the Anglo-American Imagination, c.1620 – 1760” The Shattuck Colonial American History Symposium , 2023-2024

    Other Presentations

    • “Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate Crisis, Climate Impact Report”, Climate Impact Program Show & Tell, Los Angeles, CA, 2024-2025
    • Oceanography (GEOL 107): “The Man Eater Effect:” Sharks Real and Imagined in Anglophone Culture, 1770 – 1930, 2025-2026
  • Book Chapters

    • “The Promise of Smoke”. Storm Cloud: Picturing the Origins of Our Climate CrisisNew Haven, CT: Yale University Press.2024.

    Journal Article

    • (2020). “Vice, Virtue, and the Protection of Property: Morality in North America’s Colonial Legislation, c.1660-c.1740”. The Welebaethan: A Journal of History. Vol. 47
    • Lawrence B. DeGraff Outstanding Graduate Student Award, CSU, Fullerton, 2019-2020
    • Winner (Audience Choice), 3MT (3 Minute Thesis), Western Association of Graduate Schools, 2019-2020
  • Committees

    • Member, Gary B. Cohen Distinguished Lectureship in History, 2025-2026
  • Professional Memberships

    • History of Ocean Science and Technology, Consortium for History of Science, Technology, and Medicine, 01/01/2023 –
    • American Society for Environmental History, 01/01/2021 –