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Peter Baume is a physician and was a Liberal senator for New South Wales from 1974 to 1991, during which time he served as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Health and Minister for Education. Upon retiring from parliament he has been Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Chancellor of The Australian National University and Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Foundation Chair at the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
Hyaeweol Choi is the ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Director of the Korea Institute at The Australian National University. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, culture, religion and diaspora. She is author of New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook (Routledge 2013) and Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (University of California Press, 2009). She is currently working on a project, reexamining the modern history of women in Korea from a transnational perspective by focusing on the dynamic flow of the ideas, discourses and people across national boundaries that have triggered new gender images and bodily practices.
Atholl Anderson is a pre-historian in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History at ANU, who has undertaken extensive projects extending across the Pacific Ocean from Southeast Asia to South America and from equatorial to sub-polar regions, in addition to a current project on the human settlement of islands in the Indian Ocean. He has excavated numerous sites of early human colonisation and undertaken analyses, especially of radiocarbon chronologies, which demonstrate that patterns of migration and settlement were more episodic, less directed and generally younger than previously thought. This conclusion has led him to propose radically different explanations of Polynesian and other Indo-Pacific voyaging.
Brian Rappert is a Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can and are made about the adoption and regulation of technologies; this particularly in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. His books include Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity, Technology & Security (ed), Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits; and Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences (ANU Press). More recently he has been interested in the social, ethical, and epistemological issues associated with researching and writing about secrets, as in his book titled Experimental Secrets.
Dr Samuel Furphy is a Research Fellow in the National Centre of Biography, School of History, The Australian National University. His scholarly interests include Australian colonial history, British imperial history, Aboriginal history, and biography. Sam’s recent book – Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History – is a biography of a nineteenth century pastoralist, public servant, ethnologist, and Aboriginal administrator, whose written works were influential in the Yorta Yorta native title case. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards in 2013.
Sam is a currently a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council project “Serving Our Country: A History of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the Defence of Australia.” In 2014 he will commence work on a new project as an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow: “A Due Observance of Justice? Protectors of Aborigines in Britain’s Australasian Colonies, 1837-1857.”
Before joining the National Centre of Biography, Sam worked as a professional historian, writing several commissioned histories including Dimmeys of Richmond (2007) and Australian of the Year Awards: A Fiftieth Anniversary History (2010).
Oskar Spate (1911- 2000) was born and educated in England where he completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1937 on the development of London. After the Second World War he combined lecturing in England with writing a regional geography of the Indian sub-continent.
In 1951 he took up the post of Foundation Professor of Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies at The Australian National University, a position he held until 1967. From 1967 to 1972 he was Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, and in 1972 moved to its Department of Pacific History.
Throughout his career, Oskar Spate published a wide diversity of papers and essays on such subjects as the geography of Europe, South Asia and Australia and the exploration of Australia and the Pacific. Upon his retirement in 1976, he devoted most of his energies to researching and writing his three-volume history The Pacific since Magellan.
Peter Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.
Christine Stewart graduated BA (Hons I) from Sydney University in 1966, where she studied Indonesian & Malayan Studies and Anthropology. She first came to PNG in 1968, and gained an LLB from the University of Papua New Guinea in 1976. She has worked in the Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission, drafting legislation including the original drafts for management of domestic violence, and the Department of Justice and Attorney-General. She spend more than two years in Nauru, drafting legislation there, and subsequently took up consultancy work, the main feature of which was the drafting of the PNG HIV/AIDS Management and Prevention Act 2003 (the ‘HAMP Act’) and work on environment management. She was awarded her PhD from ANU in July 2012 for her thesis ‘Pamuk na Poofta: criminalising consensual sex in Papua New Guinea’, just as her first major publication, the volume Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea, co-edited with Margaret Jolly and published by ANU Press, was launched.
Yasmine Musharbash has been undertaking research with Warlpiri people at Yuendumu and in wider central Australia since the mid-1990s. She has an MA from Freie Universität Berlin (1997) and a PhD (2003) from The Australian National University. From 2004 to 2008, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Western Australia and now is a lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Yuendumu Everyday. Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009) and co-editor of Mortality, Mourning, and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia (with K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson and V. Burbank, Ashgate, 2008) and You’ve Got to be Joking! Anthropological Perspectives on Humour and Laughter (with J. Carty, Anthropological Forum Special Issue, 2008).
Dr. Milton Cameron is a Canberra-based writer, heritage consultant and artist. A former practising architect, he has designed buildings in Australia, England and New Zealand, and has lectured at the University of Canberra. Milton has been admitted to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture), University of New South Wales, Master of Philosophy (Visual Arts), The Australian National University, and Bachelor of Architecture, University of Auckland. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.