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Benjamin Penny is a professor of Chinese history and religion in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His research examines religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China as well as in medieval times; Taiwanese religion and society, and expatriate society in the treaty ports in the nineteenth century.
Brian McGowran is a retired academic at the University of Adelaide, where he acquired his bachelor of science, doctor of philosophy and doctor of science degrees. As a micropalaeontologist, he consulted to the minerals and fuels exploration industry and was head of the Palaeontology Laboratory at the Geological Survey of South Australia. He has had visiting appointments at Princeton University, the Geological Survey of Austria and the University of Vienna. As an academic biogeohistorian he perches sometimes precariously between the ‘physical’ and the ‘biological’ disciplines and traditions. One outcome was the book Biostratigraphy: Microfossils in Geological Time (2005). Another was publishing studies of his heroes Martin Glaessner, Reg Sprigg and Charles Darwin, each of whom saw himself as both a geologist and a biologist.
Dr Kate Laing received her PhD in 2017 from La Trobe University. She has taught Australian history and politics at various universities and has worked as a research assistant at the University of Technology Sydney and a project officer at The Australian National University.
Felicity Jensz is a historian of British and German colonial history who focuses on interactions between Christian missionaries and Indigenous people, the education of non-European peoples, and cultural memories of colonialism. Since 2008 she has been employed by the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics, at the University of Münster, in Germany. She is the author of German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848–1908: Influential Strangers and Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910, as well as the co-editor of five collections and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts, focusing on the Devī Māhātmya, the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and the Sanskrit epics. He is the author of The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth and The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and hosts the New Books in Indian Religions podcast.
McComas Taylor teaches at The Australian National University, in Canberra. His research combines contemporary critical theory and Sanskrit narrative literature, primarily in examining questions of knowledge and power: How does discourse shape knowledge, and how does knowledge then feed back into discourse? What makes Sanskrit texts powerful and authoritative? He has published books on the discourse of social division in the Pañcatantra and the contemporary oral performance of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. He has recently published a translation, The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes, with an accompanying audiobook, both available from ANU Press.
Hon S. Chan, PhD, is the president of the HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College, Hong Kong. His research interests relate mainly to China’s cadre personnel system and civil service system, and to its use of performance management.
Tsai-tsu Su, PhD, is a professor and director at the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, National Taiwan University. She has worked with various government agencies in Taiwan and was the president of the Taiwanese Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs.
Alastair Greig is an emeritus fellow in sociology at The Australian National University. He previously edited and contributed new chapters to the reissue of Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, published by ANU Press in 2015. He is also the author of The Australian Way of Life (2013) and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (1995), as well as the co-author of Challenging Global Inequality (2007) and Inequality in Australia (2003). He has received numerous national and local teaching and community awards.
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