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Alexandra A.E. van der Geer is a Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Research Associate of Leiden University. Her main research focus is on the evolution, extinction, and biogeography of mammals on islands. Other areas of interest include introduced species, brain evolution, and ethnozoology of South Asia. Her books include Evolution of Island Mammals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) and Animals in Stone (Brill, 2008).
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Martin Gascoigne was Rosalie Gascoigne’s son and shared her interest in art. He studied history with Manning Clark at The Australian National University and afterwards worked primarily in the Department of Defence on intelligence matters and relations with the United States and South-East Asia.
Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018) was an Australian-based anthropologist who worked with Indigenous Australians and an internationally renowned scholar in environmental humanities, focusing on multi-species ethnography and extinction studies. Her research analysed the entwined issues of social and ecological justice, based on long-term relationships, especially with Indigenous people in the Victoria River region and more broadly in the Northern Territory. She worked with Indigenous Australians on many land claims. This book completes her envisaged trilogy, with Hidden Histories (1991) and Dingo Makes Us Human (1992), both widely acclaimed, respectively winning the Jessie Litchfield and Stanner prizes.
Historian Nicola ‘Niki’ Francis is a Pākehā New Zealander of English, German and Scottish origins. She has lived in the UK, Iraq, Germany, Belgium and Australia and now lives between the sea and the bush in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Prior to doing her PhD on which this biography is based, she worked for human rights and conservation NGOs, as parish minister and hospice chaplain.
Niki worked for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and contributed to it as an author, and for Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. In Canberra she was an active member of the Australian Women’s Archive Project and contributed multiple entries and essays to the online Australian Women’s Register.
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Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia — lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse
Debby Chan is a lecturer in the Australian Centre on China in the World and Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Her research interests concern China’s economic statecraft and public diplomacy. Her work explains economic setbacks to Belt and Road projects in the host countries. Debby obtained her doctorate in politics from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She was previously a visiting fellow at the Department of Public and International Affairs at the City University of Hong Kong and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at HKU.
Tamara Jacka is an Emeritus Professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. A feminist social anthropologist, her main research interests are in gender, rural–urban migration and social change in contemporary China. She is the author of Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (2006), which won the Francis L.K. Hsu prize for best book in East Asian Anthropology. More recent publications include Women, Gender and Rural Development in China (co‑edited with Sally Sargeson, 2011) and Contemporary China: Society and Social Change (co-authored with Andrew B. Kipnis and Sally Sargeson, 2013).
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