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Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. His present research explores graphic codes in small scale communities: their origins, evolution, pragmatic principles and relationships to social organisation. He has previously worked as an etymologist of Aboriginal words in Australian English for the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and as a linguist with the National Commission on Indigenous People, Philippines.
Sébastien Lacrampe is a descriptive and documentary linguist specialising in Vanuatu languages. He has worked on several Central Vanuatu languages since 2006, and has written a grammar of the Lelepa language. His main interests are at the crossroads between grammar and language shift, and particularly how grammatical description can inform processes at work in language shift. He has taught a course in Melanesian Pidgin and worked on the Austkin project.
Richard Thackway is an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Geography, Planning and Environmental Management, University of Queensland; an Adjunct Fellow in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University; and Visiting Fellow at the UNSW Australian Defence Force Academy. His research aims to help others improve their decision-making about natural resources, by developing and implementing spatial and temporal decision-support tools, frameworks and information systems for assessing and reporting natural resource conditions associated with land use and land management. His recent research involves assessing ecological change and trends associated with the transformation of native vegetation condition and extent caused by the effects of land management practices and associated climate patterns.
Warren Shapiro is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. He has carried out fieldwork in north-east and central Arnhem Land. He has been writing on kinship, religion and the history of anthropology for more than half a century. Recently, he received the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.
Bina D’Costa is an Associate Professor at the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University.
Srinjoy Bose is European Union COFUND (Marie Sklowodska-Curie Action) Fellow at the School of Government & International Affairs, Durham University.
Kingsley Palmer is a consultant anthropologist specialising in the field of native title in Australia. Having worked in this area for more than 20 years, he has conducted extensive research in numerous areas of rural and remote Australia, prepared many expert reports and been called as an expert witness for cases brought before the Federal Court. He has published widely on the practice of anthropology within the native title context and on the anthropologist as expert. He was author of Noongar People, Noongar Land, published in 2016 (AIATSIS, Canberra, in conjunction with the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, Perth); this was an edited version of the expert report he wrote for the Single Noongar Claim.
Chris Gregory has been a member of the Anthropology Department at The Australian National University since 1983, and was a visiting professor of Political and Economic Anthropology at the University of Manchester from 2008–15. He has been conducting fieldwork on the economy and culture of rice cultivation in Bastar District, India, periodically since 1982. He lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for three years (1973–75) and Fiji for four years (2008–12).
Trung Dinh Dang completed his BA in Economics in Vietnam in 1996, obtained his MA in Southeast Asian Studies at National University of Singapore in 2002 and completed his PhD in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University (ANU), in 2008. Before undertaking his PhD, Trung was a lecturer in Development Economics at Tay Nguyen University of Vietnam. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and a visiting fellow at ANU from 2009 to 2016. He is currently a lecturer in Vietnamese at the Australian Defence Force School of Languages, Laverton, Victoria.
Professor Regina Ganter is a historian specialising in interactions between Indigenous, Asian and European peoples in Australia. She is the multi-award winning author of The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait (Melbourne University Press, 1994) and Mixed Relations (UWA Publishing, 2006), having published widely in the field of cross-cultural encounters and contributed to a number of broadcasts, museum exhibitions and curriculum materials.