Catherine Rigby

Catherine Elizabeth Rigby (born 1960 in Canberra, Australia) is a scholar in the interdisciplinary field of environmental humanities. Early life Kate Rigby was born and grew up largely in Canberra, where she attended St John's Primary School, Red Hill Primary School, and the Canberra Church of England Girls' Grammar School, graduating as Dux of the School in 1977. She undertook tertiary studies at the University of Melbourne (BA Hons, 1982, and MA, 1986) and Monash University (PhD, 1990). In addition, she spent a year at the University of Freiburg on a DAAD postgraduate scholarship (1982–83) and a year at the University of Paderborn on an Alexander von Humboldt postdoctoral fellowship, where she was mentored by Germany's first Professor of Women's Studies, Gisela Ecker (1994).