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Anna Cole was born in south west England to Anglo-Irish/Celtic parents. As a child she migrated with her parents and siblings to live on Nyungar land in Western Australia. She began learning about Indigenous history as a student at the University of Western Australia while involved in activism around a sacred Wagyl water source. Her previous edited collections include, Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History (with Victoria Haskins and Fiona Paisley, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005) and Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (with Nicholas Thomas and Bronwen Douglas, Duke University Press, 2005). Her co-written film documenting Indigenous debutante balls in urban Sydney, Dancing with the Prime Minister (November Films, 2010), was short-listed for a UN Media Peace Award. She has two young children and lives in the UK, where she teaches post-colonial history and literature at Brighton University.
Ann Jones is a broadcaster and a social historian with an interest in trade union internationalism and the idealisation of Latin America in the anglophone world.
After completing her first school certificate in rural Chile, her second in regional Australia and the requisite academic studies, Ann spent five years investigating Chile Solidarity around the world. The research has taken her to labour archives and offices across three continents, where she pored over meeting minutes and recorded oral history interviews.
Professor Michael J. Selgelid earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne; and an Academic Visitor in the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences at ANU. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Brocher Foundation. He serves on the Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and a book series in Practical Ethics and Public Policy for ANU Press. He is Co-Editor of the journal Monash Bioethics Review and Associate Editor of Journal of Medical Ethics.
Clifford Sather received his PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1971. His principal publications include The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of Southeastern Sabah (1997, Oxford UP) and Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An ethnographic study of Iban shamanic chants (2001, Tun Jugah Foundation & BRC). He is also co-editor (with James J. Fox) of Origins, Ancestors and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian ethnography (1996, Australian National University) and (with Timo Kaartinen) of Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society (2008, Finnish Literature Society). Dr. Sather taught and held research positions in Southeast Asia (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and the National University of Singapore), Australia (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University), Europe (University of Helsinki), and the United States (Vassar College, Reed College, and University of Oregon). He retired in 2005 as Professorial Fellow from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is currently editor of the Borneo Research Bulletin, the annual journal of the Borneo Research Council, a position he has held since 1995.
Kevin Windle is an Emeritus Fellow, formerly Associate Professor, in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at The Australian National University, where he lectured in Russian literature, language and translation studies. He has published numerous scholarly articles, including many on the early history of the Russian community in Australia, and a biography of Alexander Zuzenko. In 2014, he received the inaugural AALITRA Prize for literary translation; second prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition in 2015; and, in 2017, the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) Aurora Borealis Prize for the translation of non-fiction.
Satish Chand is Professor of Finance in the School of Business at the University of New South Wales Canberra. Satish is also an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University and the University of South Pacific, and an Associate of the National Research Institute in Papua New Guinea. His research interests include labour migration, land reform, entrepreneurship and employment in fragile states, and the challenges of development. For the past three years, Satish has been researching the nexus between peace and prosperity, drawing on the experiences of external peacekeeping in Bougainville (PNG), East Timor, Liberia, Mozambique, and the Solomon Islands. This research has ramifications for pacification strategies in fragile states.
Associate Professor Bruno David (ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is an archaeologist at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University. He has worked and published extensively on collaborative cultural history projects with Indigenous communities across northern Australia and along the southern lowlands of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the US. Together with co-editors Jean-Jacques Delannoy and Jean-Michel Geneste, he has pioneered ‘archaeomorphological’ approaches to rock art research, as developed in this volume. His latest book is Cave Art (Thames & Hudson, 2017).
Cameron Mitchell has a career background in Defence Intelligence. He has worked on a range of Defence related strategic issues, and deployed to Iraq as a Senior Intelligence Officer working in the Combined Intelligence Operation Centre in 2007. He holds an honours degree in history from the University of Sydney, and graduated with a Masters degree by research from the University of New South Wales. His academic focus includes Russian and Chinese military modernisation and defence reform. He has been published in Strategic Comments, through the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Matthew G. Allen is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University.
Brian Kennett is currently Distinguished Professor of Seismology at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University and was Director from September 2006 to January 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Seismology from the University of Cambridge in 1973. He was a Lindemann Fellow at IGPP, University of California, San Diego and then a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Australia in 1984, and was President of IASPEI from 1999-2003.
His research has covered a very wide range of topics in seismology, from reflection seismology to studies of the deep Earth and from theoretical to observational studies. He has received recognition through many medals and awards including the Gold Medal in Geophysics from the Royal Astronomical Society, the Gutenberg Medal from the European Geosciences Union, the Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London, and the Jaeger and Flinders Medals from the Australian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society (London).