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Professor Peter Dean is the University of Western Australia’s first Chair of Defence Studies and the inaugural director of the University of Western Australia Defence and Security Institute. He has previously worked at The Australian National University and was the founding editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series. He has authored a number of books including MacArthur’s Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942–45 and The Architect of Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, and edited books on Australia in the Second World War, Australia’s Defence policy and the ANZUS alliance.
Dr Tristan Moss is a senior lecturer at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. He is also a Fulbright Scholar and winner of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, working on a history of Australian space policy. He has previously worked at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and the Australian War Memorial. He is the author of Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75, and co-editor of Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity Away from the Battlefields.
Dr Stephen Howes is Professor of Economics and Director of the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
Dr Lekshmi N. Pillai is Professor of Accounting and Executive Dean, School of Business and Public Policy, University of Papua New Guinea.
Dr Jittipat Poonkham (PhD, Aberystwyth University; MPhil, Oxford University) is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of International Studies Program in the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University. He is the co-editor of International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand: Theory and Sub-fields (Routledge, 2019).
Dr Karen Fox is a senior research fellow in the National Centre of Biography and a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History, The Australian National University. A historian of Australia and New Zealand, she has taught Australian and imperial history and biography at ANU. She is fascinated by the question of how a life comes to be acclaimed as significant, or to be celebrated, and how these processes have differed in different places and times, as well as by the changing ways Australians and New Zealanders have understood their place in the world.
Honae Cuffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Newcastle, and has worked in both the academic and public history sector. Honae has published widely on issues of history, contemporary policy and academic research practices. The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's
Darren Byler is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Brij Lal, who died on Christmas Day 2021, was an enormously prolific historian of the Pacific Islands, especially of his birthplace Fiji. The 18 ANU Press titles below – variously written, edited or contributed to by Professor Lal – constitute a fraction of his published output. Not only was he an outstanding academic and journalist, commenting perceptively and knowledgeably on every Fiji election since 1982, as well as on the shifting waves of Fiji politics, he also acted as one of the three commissioners who drew up a draft of the new Fiji constitution in 1997 and, in addition, wrote about the global Indian diaspora, especially in the West Indies. Considered persona non grata in Fiji in recent years, he wore his expulsion as a tribute to his dedication to liberal democracy, and greatly valued his Australian citizenship.
Dr Daniel J Fleming is Group Manager – Ethics and Formation for St Vincent’s Health Australia. He holds a PhD in moral philosophy, and is widely published in moral philosophy, theological ethics, moral education and health care ethics.