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The ANU Press Textbooks grant scheme seeks to support ANU academics in publishing digital textbooks through the ANU Press Textbook imprint. The ANU Textbooks grant scheme closely aligns with the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Enhancement Grants to support innovative and creative initiatives and
Thom van Dooren is a Senior Lecture in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales. Australia. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia University Press, 2014) and co-editor of the international, open access journal, Environmental Humanities.
Pip Deveson is a Research and Media Project Officer with the Digital Humanities Hub at The Australian National University Research School of Humanities. Over recent years, she has worked on a number of multi-media and film projects, most notably, the multi-media biography (on CD-ROM) of the renowned Yolngu artist, Narritjin Maymuru. She is currently working on two Australian Research Council funded projects: Contexts of Collection – a dialogic approach to understanding the making of the material record of Yolngu cultures; and Pintupi Dialogues – reconstructing memories of art, land and community through the visual record. Her involvement with both of these projects builds upon her work, over many years, with filmmaker Ian Dunlop.
Deveson began working with Dunlop after completing an anthropology degree at ANU. From 1981 to 1984 her role was that of research assistant on the Yirrkala Film Project, focussing on the effects of the NABALCO bauxite mine on the Yolngu Aboriginal community of northeast Arnhem Land. Following the birth of her three children, she returned to work with Dunlop in 1994, as editor/writer for the Yirrkala Video Project – an extension of the film project, funded by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Film Australia. In 1996, Deveson and Dunlop shared the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize for the film Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi. In 2007, she was awarded the National Archives Frederick Watson Fellowship to undertake further research on the Yirrkala Film collection. During that time she also worked on several educational websites featuring Yolngu cultural material: Ceremony – the Djungguwan of northeast Arnhem Land; and Living Knowledge – Indigenous knowledge in science education.
BA (Hons), University of Sydney, 1967; MA (Hons), University of Melbourne, 1970; PhD, Australian National University, 1981.
Honorary Professor in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, John researches and writes in the fields of genocide and massacre studies, cultural theory, the Enlightenment, monotheism and polytheism, intellectual history, historiography, diaspora, ethnic and cultural identity, and the history of Zionism and Israel-Palestine.
John is currently working on several projects. One is a book entitled Sheer Folly and Derangement: Disorienting Europe and the West. Another is a research project entitled “The Rebecca File: The Strange Afterlife of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe’s Rebecca in the Nineteenth Century”. Another is an intellectual autobiography, tentatively entitled Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi: A Memoir.
Having taught History at La Trobe University for 25 years, Bronwen took up a fellowship in Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in 1997. Her major research interest is the history of the global concept of race and its particular manifestations in Oceania (conceived broadly to include Australia and Island Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific Islands). This is the theme of the book she co-edited with Chris Ballard for ANU Press – Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940 (2008). She is at present completing a monograph called Indigenous Presence and the Science of Race: Savants, Voyagers, and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1840. This book examines the interplay of metropolitan ideas, regional experience and Indigenous agency in European descriptions, representations and classifications of people encountered in Oceania. She recently began a new project on ‘Naming Oceania: geography, raciology and local knowledge in the “fifth part of the world”, 1511-1920′. By tracing knowledge about places and their inhabitants to actual encounters, the project investigates the co-dependence of local and metropolitan modes of knowing and naming while also throwing new light on the complicity of racial geography and anthropology in 19th- and early 20th-century imperial competition and colonisation. She also has longstanding interests in the history of tattoo; the history of Melanesian Christianities; the intersections of Christianity, gender, and community in postcolonial Melanesia; and the colonial histories of New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Her major theoretical and methodical concern is the identification of traces of local agency in colonial and élite representations of actual encounters, including visual images and maps.
Michael Fabinyi is a research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. He is originally from Melbourne, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Anthropology in 2003. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology and Environment at The Australian National University in 2009. His research broadly focuses on the social and political aspects of marine resource management in the Asia-Pacific region, integrating environmental anthropology and political ecology. Much of his recent work has concerned the social dynamics of high-value commodity fisheries such as the trade in live reef fish, focusing on governance in source countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia, and consumption trends in China.
Greg’s interest in Indonesian politics and Islam was awakened as an undergraduate at Monash University and they have remained the focus of his academic and professional activity since then. His PhD thesis was a study of the traditionalist Muslim party, Nahdlatul Ulama. More recently, he has examined terrorism, transnational Islamist movements and religious commodification in Indonesia, as well as broader trends in contemporary Islamic politics in Southeast Asia.
Denise Fisher currently writes on France in the South Pacific, with a particular focus on contemporary New Caledonia. She is a Visiting Fellow with the Australian National University Centre for European Studies. A former senior Australian diplomat, Denise served as political and economic analyst in a number of post-colonial countries (Burma, Kenya, India, Malaysia) before an appointment as Counsellor (Political) in the Australian Embassy, Washington. She has served as Australia’s High Commissioner in Zimbabwe, concurrently accredited to Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique; and as Australia’s Consul-General in New Caledonia covering the French Pacific territories. Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2006, she has written France in the South Pacific: power and politics. Denise has a Masters in International Public Diplomacy from Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters of Philosophy at the Australian National University. In 2011 she was made Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit.
Christine Fernon is the Online Manager for the National Centre of Biography. She worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics before becoming a research editor at the Australian Dictionary if Biography in 1998. She was later the Dictionary’s bibliographer and assisted in creating the online version of the ADB. She now manages this site along with the NCB’s other biographical websites. She has also written on the history of Canberra, including A Different View: The National Library and Its Building Art (2004) and is the editor of the NCB’s newsletter, Biography Footnotes.
Jon Fraenkel is a Senior Research Fellow in the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. He formerly worked at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji from 1995-2007. He is author of The Manipulation of Custom; from uprising to intervention in the Solomon Islands (Victoria University Press & Pandanus Books, 2004) and recently co-edited The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji; A coup to end all coups?, ANU Press, 2009. His current research work focuses contemporary Pacific politics, economic history of Oceania, electoral systems in Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Nauru and women’s representation in the Pacific Islands. He is The Economist’s Pacific Island correspondent and regularly covers contemporary Pacific issues for other international media outlets.