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Ashley Barnwell is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in sociological aspects of emotions, memory, and narrative, and the role of life writing, archives, and literature in sociological research. She is an ARC DECRA fellow working on the project ‘Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia’. This project aims to investigate the inherited family secrets, stories and memories that inform Australians’ understandings of colonial history. Ashley publishes across sociology, history and literary studies, and is co-author of the book Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Australian Literature (with Joseph Cummins, 2019). She is a settler descendant who was born on Birrpai Country. In an ongoing collaboration with Birrpai historian John Heath, she has written about local and family histories of Indigenous-settler relations in the journal Life Writing, and the book, Burrawan: The Desecration and Resurrection of Lake Innes (2023).
Margaret Jolly is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in Anthropology, Gender and Cultural Studies and Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific. She is an historical anthropologist who has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.
Ben Hillman is Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and a specialist in politics, public policy and public administration in China. Ben is the author or editor of several books on China, including Patronage and Power (2014), and Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang (2016). He is also Editor of The China Journal — the world’s number one-ranked journal in China Studies. In 2023 he is editor of the China Story Yearbook, which is published by ANU Press.
Chien-wen Kou is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has been serving as the Director of the Institute of International Relations in the same university since August 2017. His primary research interests include Chinese politics, political elites, and comparative communist studies. He has written or coedited Elites and Governance in China (2013), Choosing China’s Leaders (2014), The Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific (2022), and several other books in Chinese.
Lior Rosenberg is a political sociologist specialising in contemporary China. He is a teaching associate at the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include Chinese rural society, China’s public administration and the urbanisation of rural China.
Melissa Demian is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews. For over 20 years she has conducted research in rural and urban Papua New Guinea and published on subjects including village courts and property disputing, customary law, kinship and social organisation, the country’s colonial and legal history, and the intersection of gender and urbanisation. She is the author of, most recently, In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Julien Louys is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. His research has focused on examining the mammal fossil record at several scales, from phenotypes, whole organisms, to entire communities to provide the most holistic understanding of the interaction between species, including humans, and their environments. He recently completed an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on Sumatra’s role in ancient human movements and evolution.
The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic history journal of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. It is a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987. Contributors to
Raghbendra Jha (PhD, Columbia, FWIF) was Professor of Economics and Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He published widely in the areas of development economics, public economics, welfare economics and macroeconomics with a country specialisation in India. He taught at Columbia University and Williams College in the US, Queen’s University in Canada, University of Warwick in the UK, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
Michael Wood has over 40 years of experience working as an anthropologist in the Western Province of PNG. Much of Wood’s research in PNG has been concerned with the politics and policies of resource development, especially in the forestry sector.