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Luise Hercus (née Schwarzschild) was born in Munich in 1926 and was educated in England from 1939. She was a Fellow of St Anne’s College, Oxford, having studied both Modern Languages and Oriental Studies. In 1962 she began working independently on salvage work in Aboriginal Languages, studying languages that were on the brink of extinction. She has continued this work ever since with help from the ARC and AIATSIS. She was Senior Lecturer and then Reader in Sanskrit at The Australian National University from 1969 to 1991. Since then she has been Visiting Fellow in the Department of Linguistics, School of Language Studies, ANU, writing up grammars, dictionaries and traditional texts, and continuing fieldwork mainly in the north of South Australia and adjacent areas of New South Wales and Queensland.
Frances Morphy is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at The Australian National University. Frances Morphy’s research interests include the anthropological demography of Australian Aboriginal populations, population structure and dynamics in remote Aboriginal Australia, and the representation of Aboriginal people in the national census. Frances Morphy is also interested in anthropology and linguistics of the Yolngu-speaking peoples of north east Arnhem Land, and social, cultural and economic aspects of the encapsulation of Aboriginal Australians within the Australian state, in particular the homelands movement, land rights and native title, the governance of Aboriginal community organisations, the impact of colonisation on Indigenous social systems and languages, and problems of cross-cultural ‘translation’.
Ron Duncan is Professor Emeritus, Crawford School of Economics and Government, The Australian National University (ANU). During the period 2003 to 2007 he was Foundation Executive Director, Pacific Institute of Advanced Studies in Development and Governance, University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji. Prior to that he was Executive Director of the National Centre for Development Studies at ANU (9 years) and Director of the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management at ANU (now the Crawford School) for 2 years.
Ron’s career has also spanned work with the New South Wales Department of Agriculture, the Australian Government’s Industries Assistance Commission, and the World Bank (14 years).
Ron is Editor of the Asian-Pacific Economic Literature journal published by Wiley-Blackwell.
Ron is an economist with special interests in agricultural, trade, and competition policies, management of natural resources, and economic development in developing countries. His primary developing country interests are China and Vietnam and countries of the South Pacific.
In 2003, Ron was awarded a Centenary Medal for Services to Australian Society through Economics; and in 2006 he was made a Distinguished Fellow of the Australian Agricultural and Resource Economics Society.
Bernadette Hince is a historian and dictionary writer who researches the language and history of the polar regions. Her association with Antarctica began 20 years ago. She is now writing a historical dictionary of Arctic English, which follows The Antarctic Dictionary, and is a visiting fellow at the Australian National Dictionary Centre in Canberra.
Pianist Arnan Wiesel is a former head of keyboard at The Australian National University’s School of Music in Canberra. With Alice Giles he devised the Antarctica and Music celebration at the School of Music to commemorate the centenary of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition of 1911–14.
Rupert Summerson, an honorary research fellow in the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, is a scientist and musician who researches wilderness and aesthetic values in Antarctica. He has had a long association with Antarctica, spending three winters there.
Anna Kenny is a consultant anthropologist who has been based in Alice Springs for 25 years and was an Australian Research Council postdoctoral fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University between 2012 and 2016. She has conducted field research with Indigenous people in the Northern Territory since 1991, as well as in Queensland and Western Australia, and has written many connection reports for native title claims that have supported successful native title determinations. She is the author of a book on Carl Strehlow’s ethnography, The Aranda’s Pepa: An Introduction to Carl Strehlow’s Masterpiece Die Aranda- und Loritja-Stämme in Zentral-Australien (1907–1920) and co-edited with Nic Peterson German Ethnography in Australia. Currently, she is working on several native title claims and a monograph on T.G.H. Strehlow’s anthropology called Shadows of a Father.
Bettina Arndt trained as a clinical psychologist before becoming well known as one of Australia’s first sex therapists. As editor of Forum magazine, she taught medical students, doctors and other professionals and worked in the media educating the public about this fascinating subject.
She then moved on to writing about broader social issues, working as a columnist and feature writer for leading newspapers and magazines. As a respected social commentator she was invited onto government advisory committees covering issues from family law to childcare and ageing.
In 2010 she published the best-selling book, The Sex Diaries, based on research involving couples keeping diaries showing how they negotiate their sex supply. The sequel – What Men Want – was published in late 2010. She is currently enjoying speaking about her new research to audiences across Australia and overseas.
Peter Drake graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1962. Heinz Arndt supervised his PhD studies at The Australian National University which were completed in 1966. In his career as an academic economist Peter became expert on monetary systems and financial development, working on Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Pacific island economies. His books include Financial Development in Malaya and Singapore (1969); Money, Finance and Development (1980); Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia (2004). Peter was Professor of Economics, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of New England, Armidale, before becoming the founding Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University in 1991. In 2003 he was appointed a Member of The Order of Australia in recognition of his contributions to university leadership, the study of economics and the delivery of overseas aid.
Howard Morphy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University.
Prior to returning to ANU in 1997, he held the chair in Anthropology at University College London. Before that he spent ten years as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. He is an anthropologist of art and visual anthropologist.
He has written extensively on Australian Aboriginal art with a monograph of Yolngu Art, Ancestral Connections (Chicago 1991), Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998) and most recently Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories (Berg, 2007). He has also produced a pioneering multimedia biography The Art of Narritjin Maymuru with Pip Deveson and Katie Hayne (ANU Press 2005). He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop of Film Australia and has curated many exhibitions including Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia. With Frances Morphy he helped prepare the Blue Mud Bay Native Title Claim which as a result of the 2008 High Court judgement recognised Indigenous ownership of the waters over the intertidal zone under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act.
His involvement in e-research and in the development of museum exhibitions reflects his determination to make humanities research as accessible as possible to wider publics and to close the distance between the research process and research outcomes.