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Debra McDougall is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, author of Engaging with strangers: Love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands (2016) and co-editor of Christian politics in Oceania (2013). Her current research is focused on a remarkable vernacular language movement, the Kulu Language Institute of Ranongga, and she is interested in other grassroots challenges to socio-economic, political and epistemological inequality in Oceania.
Fluid Matter(s) is the first ANU Press title published using Shorthand. The rich and evocative design has captured the attention of researchers across the globe with over 20,000 downloads since its release in August 2020. Co-editors Natalie Kohle and Shigehisa Kuriyama discuss how programs like
Vindicating the need for open-access peer-reviewed resources, ANU Press has enjoyed a record-breaking year with over 4.1m downloads at the end of the third quarter. We’ve summarised some of the key highlights from this year for you to share with your friends and colleagues. Download PDF (1.8MB) +61
ANU is a world leader in the advancement of Indigenous scholarship, and enjoys a long-standing commitment to Indigenous reconciliation. Our collection includes over 50 titles dedicated to Indigenous culture, including the popular Aboriginal History Journal, which contains studies of Aboriginal and
Asia-Pacific Linguistics (A-PL) publishes scholarly research relating to the languages of Asia, the Pacific and Australia, with a particular focus on little described languages. This includes language description and grammatical analysis, language documentation, language typology and linguistic
Since 1962 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been prepared by its staff in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. It provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of significant and representative men and women of this country, who
Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History at The Australian National University (ANU). Her work includes Breadwinning (2000) a history of women and the state, Kin (2005) a collective biography of a working-class family which won the 2006 ARANZ Ian Wards Prize and was short-listed for the 2007 Ernest Scott Prize, and, most recently, general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 18 (2012). She is the co-ordinator of the Masters of Biographical Research and Writing at the ANU. She was on the judging panel of the Magarey Medal for Biography (2008), the selection panel for the Australian Prime Ministers Centre research and scholarship program (2008-2011), the National Biography Award (2012) and is a member of the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate’s Advisory Board.
Terence Wesley-Smith is a Professor in the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and Principle Investigator of a National Resource Center Grant (Pacific Islands) from the US Department of Education. He served as center director 2010–18, and editor of The Contemporary Pacific 2008–15. His publications include Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) and China in Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order? (Berghahn Books 2010).
Excerpt from Barbara Pocock’s review of David Peetz’s Realities and Future of Work Labour History • Number 119 • November 2020 The pandemic experience reveals what many workers know: formal rights at work are not available to many Australians. This includes those who work every day and for years at
Helen Bromhead is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, undertaking a research project on climate and extreme weather in Australian public discourse. She is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, The Australian National University. She is the author of Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives (John Benjamins, 2018) and The Reign of Truth and Faith: Epistemic Expressions in 16th and 17th Century English (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009).