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Muhlis Hadrawi is a graduate of Hasanuddin University, University of Indonesia and National University of Malaysia. He is currently head of the Department of Regional Literature in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at Hasanuddin University. He has studied the early Malay contacts with Sulawesi and published on Bugis philology and cultural matters.
Mukhlis Paeni, an historian and anthropologist, is a graduate of Hasanuddin University and Gadjah Mada University. He has contributed in many ways to cultural affairs in South Sulawesi, in addition to his extensive publications. He was largely responsible for the manuscript microfilming project of the National Archives in Makassar, the restoration of the Somba Opu fortress in Makassar and inscribing La Galigo manuscripts on the UNESCO Memory of the World register. He has also served as Director General of the National Archives in Jakarta, as chair of the Association of Indonesian Historians and in many other public and professional roles. He is still active in the Oral Tradition Studies Postgraduate Program at the University of Indonesia.
Sean Ulm is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at James Cook University and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Queensland Museum and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute. Sean’s research focuses on persistent problems in the archaeology of northern Australia and the western Pacific where understanding the relationships between environmental change and cultural change using advanced studies of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sequences are central to constructions of the human past. His priority has been to develop new tools to investigate and articulate co-variability and co-development of human and natural systems. His work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Learning and Teaching Council and French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His publications include more than 100 articles on the archaeology of Australia and 5 books. Sean has conducted research in Australia, Europe, Honduras, Chile, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. He is a former President of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc., is Editor of Australian Archaeology and Queensland Archaeological Research, and sits on the editorial boards of The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology and Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.
Dr Claire Cronin is a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.
Tamaki Mihic is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are in contemporary Japanese literature, translation studies and comparative literature. She is also a NAATI-certified Japanese to English translator.
Len Richardson was, in the early 1970s, a PhD student at The Australian National University (ANU) where his work on the labour movement in Wollongong during the Great Depression was supervised by Bob Gollan. He came to ANU from the Grey Valley district of New Zealand’s South Island and was educated at Marist Brothers in Greymouth and the University of Canterbury. He taught New Zealand and Australian history at the University of Canterbury and his research interests continue to focus on the Australasian labour movements.
Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak has lived and worked in most Australian cities and throughout Asia where her practice during the 1980s and 1990s included performance, filmmaking and community involvement. Over the last two decades in Canberra she has curated more than 40 exhibitions. She is the Australian lead and co-curator of the project Curating Canberra Brasilia: un/planned a/symmetries. How Local Art Made Australia’s National Capital is her first book.
A music label and academic publisher to support excellent Australian music and research. We hope this can become a repository for great music that would otherwise be buried and forgotten – Kim Cunio, Head of ANU School of Music, Chair of ANU Press Music ANU Press Music is Australia’s first open
Robert Porter has worked in corporate roles, mainly in the mining sector. He is currently involved in researching and writing business histories.
Robert is also the author of Paul Hasluck: A Political Biography (UWA Press, 1993) and Below the Sands: The Companies that Formed Iluka Resources (UWA Publishing, 2017). Robert holds a BA (Hons), MSc (Econ) and PhD. He lives in Melbourne.
Denghua Zhang is a research fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University (ANU). He has been working on the Asia-Pacific region, especially the Pacific, for 18 years. Prior to joining ANU, he worked as a diplomat for 10 years. His research focuses largely on Chinese foreign policy, foreign aid and China in the Pacific. He has published extensively, including recently with journals such as The Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, The Round Table and Asian Journal of Political Science.