Person

Maroske, Sara (1961 - )

Born
5 March 1961
Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia
Occupation
Science historian

Summary

Sara Maroske has published and taught extensively in the history of botany, natural history and environmental history. She has been co-editor Historical records of Australian Science since 2015, having been Book review editor for the journal 2010-2014. Maroske is an Editor of the 'The correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project', and an Honorary Associate at the Royal Botanic Gardens Melbourne. Current projects include biographies of Ferdinand von Mueller and Sophie Ducker.

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Chronology

1982
Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Melbourne
1989 - 1999
Career position - Researcher, Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller Project
2005
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of Melbourne
2010 - 2014
Career position - Book review editor, Historical Records of Australian Science
2015 -
Career position - Co-editor, Historical Records of Australian Science
2022 -
Career position - Member, Editorial Advisory Committee, Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation

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Published resources

Book Sections

  • Gascoigne, John and Maroske, Sara, 'Colonial Science and Technology' in The Cambridge History of Australia, vol. 1, Indigenous and Colonial Australia, Bashford, Alison and Macintyre, Stuart, eds (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013), pp. 438-86. Details
  • Gillbank, L.; and Maroske, S., 'Behind the botany of the Horn Expedition: Ferdinand Mueller's documentation of the larapintine flora' in Exploring central Australia: society, the environment and the 1894 Horn Expedition, Morton, S. R. and Mulvaney, D. J., eds (Chipping Norton, N.S.W.: Surrey Beatty & Sons, 1996), pp. 209-21. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'The Whole Great Continent as a Present: Nineteenth-century Australian Women Workers in Science' in On the Edge of Discovery: Australian Women in Science, Farley Kelly, ed. (Melbourne: Text Publishing Company, 1993), pp. 13-34. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Germans at the Melbourne Botanic Garden and Herbarium, 1853-96' in Baron von Mueller's German Melbourne, Ellen I. Mitchell, ed. (Bundoora, Victoria: La Trobe University, 2000), pp. 24-34. Details

Conference Papers

  • Maroske, Sara, 'Regardfully Yours Ferd. von Mueller', in Recovering Science: Strategies and Models for the Past, Present and Future: Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Melbourne, October 1992 edited by Tim Sherratt, Lisa Jooste and Rosanne Clayton (Canberra: Australian Science Archives Project, 1995), pp. 35-38.. Details

Edited Books

  • Home, R. W.; Lucas, A. M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D. M.; and Voigt, J. H. eds, Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 2, 1860-1875, vol. 2 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2002), 865 pp. Details
  • Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; and Voigt, J.H. eds, Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 1, 1840-1859, vol. 1 (Berne: Peter Lang Verlag, 1998), 850 pp. Details
  • Home, R. W.; Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara, Sinkora, D.M.; Voigt, J.H.; and Wells, M. eds, Regardfully Yours: Selected Correspondence of Ferdinand von Mueller, Volume 3, 1876-1896, vol. 3 (Bern: Peter Lang, 2006), 909 pp. Details

Journal Articles

  • Archer, B.; Maroske, S., 'Sarah Brooks - Plant Collector for Ferdinand Mueller', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 188-194. Details
  • Brown-May, A.; and Maroske, S., 'Breaking into the quietude: re-reading the personal life of Ferdinand von Mueller', Public History Review, 3 (1994), 36-63. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M.; Maroske, Sara, 'Relief from Duties of Minor Importance - the Removal of Baron von Mueller from the Directorship of the Royal Botanic Gardens', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1) (1996), 103-127. Details
  • Cohn, Helen M.; Maroske, Sara, 'Royal Botanic Gardens, Melbourne: a Select Annotated Bibiliography', Victorian Historical Journal, 67 (1) (1996), 167-174. Details
  • Dowe, J. L.; May, T. W.; Maroske, S.; and Smith, L. T., 'The Wehl family of South Australia and their botanical connections with "Dear Uncle" Baron Ferdinand von Mueller', Swainsona, 34 (1) (2020), 1-79. Details
  • Dowe, John Leslie and Maroske, Sara, '"These princely plants": Ferdinand Mueller and the naming of Australasian plants', Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (1) (2016), 13-27, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR15014. Details
  • Dowe, John Leslie; and Maroske, Sara, 'John Dallachy (1804 -71): collecting botanical specimens in Rockingham Bay', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (2) (2020), 101-17. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19013. Details
  • Dowe, John Leslie; and Maroske, Sara, 'John Dallachy (1804-71): from gardener to botanical collector', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (2) (2020), 87-100. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19012. Details
  • Dowe, John, Maroske, Sara and May, Tom, 'Flowers and fungi: illustrations by Ferdinand von Mueller's nieces', Australian garden history, 32 (April) (2020), 12-5. Details
  • Gillbank, Linden and Maroske, Sara, 'Fourteen plants and a fungus: Ferdinand Mueller's taxonomic imprint on the flora of the Buffalo Range', The Victorian naturalist, 115 (1998), 188-91. Details
  • Heathcote, J.; and Maroske, S., 'Drifting sands and Marram grass on the south-west coast of Victoria in the last century', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 10-5. Details
  • Home, R. W.; and Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand von Mueller and the French Consuls', Explorations: a Bulletin Devoted to the Study of Franco-Australian Links, 18 (June 1995; issued December 1997) (1995), 3-50. Details
  • Home, R. W.; Maroske, Sara; Lucas, A. M.; and Lucas, P. J., 'Why Explore Antarctica?: Australian Discussions in the 1880s', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 38 (1992), 386-413. Details
  • Lucas, A.M.; Lucas, Paula, Darragh, T. A.; and Maroske, S., 'Colonial pride and metropolitan expectations: the British Museum and Melbourne's meteorites', British Journal for the History of Science, 27 (1994), 65-87. Details
  • Lucas, A.M.; Maroske, Sara; and Brown-May, Andrew, 'Bringing Science to the Public: Ferdinand von Mueller and Botanical Education in Victorian Victoria', Annals of Science, 63 (1) (2006), 25-57. Details
  • Maroske, S., 'Planting the Melbourne General Cemetery: the contribution of Ferdinand von Mueller', Australian garden history, 2 (5) (1991), 3-7. Details
  • Maroske, S., 'The queen of aquatics: Victoria amazonica', Australian garden history, 3 (5) (1992), 3-6. Details
  • Maroske, S.; and Brown-May, A., 'Horticultural embellishments: public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Garden, 1870', Australian garden history, 4 (4) (1993), 8-14. Details
  • Maroske, S.; and May, A., 'Public conferment from the Melbourne Botanic Gardens, 1870', Australian Garden History, 4 (4) (1993), 8-14. Details
  • Maroske, S.; Sinkora, D.; and Cohn, Helen M., 'Ferdinand von Mueller's library', Botanic magazine, 4 (1992), 17-23. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand Mueller anniversary', Muelleria, 8 (3) (1995), 395-8. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'The Private Life of a Public Figure: Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, 1825-1896', Historical Records of Australian Science, 11 (3) (1997), 335-344, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR9971130335. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'The fate of the Cranbourne meteorites', The Victorian naturalist, 118 (2001), 305-8. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Sophie Ducker's Contribution to the History of Botany', Australian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 120 (2004), 20-25. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand Mueller and the Shape of Nature: Nineteenth-Century Systems of Plant Classification', Historical Records of Australian Science, 17 (2) (2006), 147-168, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR06010. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Educational Exsiccatae: Ferdinand von Mueller's Botanical Lessons in Colonial Victoria', reCollections: Journal of the National Museum of Australia, 2 (2007), 37-47. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Australian and Indian Plants: Making Connexions in Nineteenth-Century Botany', Historical Records of Australian Science, 23 (2) (2012), 107-29, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR12013. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, '"A Taste for Botanic Science": Ferdinand Mueller's Female Collectors and the History of Australian Botany', Muelleria, 32 (2014), 72-91. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Doris Martha Sinkora (1927 - 2017) - herbarium curator, phycologist, historian of botany', Australasian Systematic Botany Society Newsletter, 174 (2018), 33-6. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, 'Hugh Bryan Spencer Womersley 1922 - 2011', Historical Records of Australian Science, 30 (2) (2019), 178-90, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19003. Details
  • Maroske, Sara and Cohn, Helen M., 'Such Ingenious Birds: Ferdinand Mueller and William Swainson in Victoria', Muelleria, 7 (4) (1992), 529-553. Details
  • Maroske, Sara and Darragh, Thomas A., 'F. Mueller, "The Murray-scrub, sketched botanically", 1850: a Humboldtian description of Mallee vegetation', Historical Records of Australian Science, 27 (1) (2016), 41-6, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16012. Details
  • Maroske, Sara and Vaughan, Alison, 'Ferdinand Mueller's Female Plant Collectors: a Biographical Register', Muelleria, 32 (2014), 92-172. Details
  • Maroske, Sara, Robin, Libby and McCarthy, Gavan, 'Building the history of Australian science: five projects of Professor R. W. Home (1980 - present)', Historical Records of Australian Science, 28 (1) (2017), 1-11, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR16018. Details
  • Maroske, Sara; and May, Tom, 'The publications of Sophie Ducker', Australian Systematic Botany Society newsletter, 120 (2004), 22-5. Details
  • Maroske, Sara; and May, Tom W., 'Naming names: the first women taxonomists in mycology', Studies in mycology, 89 (2017), 63-84. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.simyco.2017.12.001. Details
  • Maroske, Sara; May, Tom W.; Taylor, Angela; Vaughan, Alison; and Lucas, A. M., 'On the threshold of mycology: Flora Martin née Campbell (1845 - 1923)', Muelleria, 36 (2018), 51-73. https://www.rbg.vic.gov.au/documents/Muelleria_Vol_36_-_pp51-73_Maroske_-_Flora_Martin_nee_Campbell.pdf. Details
  • May, T. W.; Maroske, S.; and Sinkora, D. M., ''The mycologist, the Baron, his fungi hunters and the mystery artist', Botanic magazine, 6 (1995), 36-9. Details
  • May, T.; and Maroske, S., 'Ferdinand von Mueller, Exhibitioner Extraordinaire', The Victorian naturalist, 113 (1996), 143-145. Details
  • Rae, Ian D.; and Maroske, Sara, 'Ferdinand von Mueller's phytochemical laboratory', Historical Records of Australian Science, 31 (1) (2020), 26-38, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR19010. Details
  • Rae, Ian D.; and Maroske, Sara, 'Practising chemistry in the British Empire: George Christian Hoffmann (1837 - 1917) the Geological Survey of Canada', Scientia canadensis, 43 (1) (2021), 95-110. https://doi.org/10.7202/1078927ar. Details

Newspaper Articles

Resources

Reviews

  • Vallance, T. G., Moore, D.T., and Groves, E. W., Nature's Investigator: the Diary of Robert Brown in Australia, 1801-1805, Australian Biological Resources Study, Canberra, 2001, 666 pp.
    Maroske, Sara, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (2), (2002), 219-221. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR02011. Details
  • Gilbert, Lionel, The Little Giant: the Life & Work of Joseph Henry Maiden, 1859-1925, Kardoorair Press, Armidale, NSW, 2001, 429 pp.
    Maroske, Sara, Historical Records of Australian Science, 14 (3), (2003), 365-368. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR03901. Details
  • Fara, Patricia, Sex, Botany & Empire: the Story of Carl Linnaeus and Joseph Banks (2003)
    Maroske, Sara, Historical Records of Australian Science, 15 (2), (2004), 290-291. https://doi.org/10.1071/HR04007. Details
  • Payne, Pauline, The diplomatic gardener: Richard Schomburgk, explorer and botanic gardens director (2007)
    Maroske, Sara, Australian Garden History, 19 (4), (2008), 17-9. Details
  • Keogh, Luke, The Wardian case: how a simple box changed the world (2020)
    Maroske, Sara, Historical Records of Australian Science, 33 (1), (2022), 75, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR22902. Details
  • Carey, Jane, Taking to the field: a history of Australian women in science (2023)
    Maroske, Sara, Historical Records of Australian Science, 34 (2), (2023), 162-4, https://doi.org/10.1071/HR23014. Details
  • Darragh, Thomas A., Engravers and lithographers in colonial Victoria: a directory (2023)
    Maroske, Sara, Historical records of Australian science, 35 (1), (2024), 61-2. Details

Theses

  • Maroske, Sara, 'Science by Correspondence: Ferdinand Mueller and Botany in Nineteenth Century Australia', PhD thesis, University of Melbourne, 2005, 238 pp. Details

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