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Laura McLauchlan is a sociocultural anthropologist based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her work focuses on the interpersonal, particularly on connection across difference (and the limits of such openness), within environmental and social movements. With expertise in feminist more-than-human ethnography, as well as training in relational neurobiological approaches, her work attends to the interplay of material, biological and cultural aspects of how, when and why we open to one another.
With her non-fiction work employing narrative, illustration, as well as attention to embodied aspects of interpersonal relations, Dregs: Love and Monsters in Small Town New Zealand is her first publication to venture into the realms of the fictional, giving space to the unspoken and unconscious aspects of the region that grew her up.
Wilco van den Heuvel studied general linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and accomplished a PhD thesis on the Biak language in 2006. Following a few years in which he focused on Romani linguistics, he participated in a project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam investigating the Awyu-Dumut languages, which led to a number of articles and a publication on the Aghu language in 2016. Nowadays, the author combines teaching Dutch as a second language with research on Papuan and Austronesian languages.
Paul Memmott is a trans-disciplinary researcher (architect/anthropologist) and the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Collaborative at the University of Queensland. His field of research encompasses the cross-cultural study of Indigenous peoples with their natural and built environments, including Aboriginal housing and settlement design, access to institutional architecture, Indigenous constructs of place and cultural landscapes, vernacular architecture, native title, social planning in Indigenous communities, homelessness and family violence.
Maria Nugent is an historian with the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History at The Australian National University. Her work spans colonial history and post-colonial memory. Her recent publications include Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds (2018, co-edited with Sarah Carter) and Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums (2021, co-edited with Gaye Sculthorpe and Howard Morphy).
Michael Aird is the director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum and an Australian Research Council (ARC) research fellow. He has worked in Aboriginal arts and cultural heritage since 1985, maintaining an interest in documenting aspects of urban Aboriginal history and culture.
Chantal Knowles is a museum professional who has worked in the United Kingdom, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and has developed permanent galleries at National Museums Scotland and the Queensland Museum. She is Head of Human History at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. Her research focuses on the role of objects and collections in creating and sustaining historical narratives.
Jonathan Richards is a professional historian who mostly works in the Queensland State Archives (QSA) undertaking research for academics, community groups, and government and Indigenous people throughout the state, especially northern Queensland. He is a specialist researcher in records about death, frontier violence and the experiences of Indigenous people under Queensland’s criminal justice system.
The Law editorial board of ANU Press welcomes thoughtful full-length monographs and edited collections (around 80,000–100,000 words), as well as shortform books (around 30,000–40,000 words), in all areas of law and legal studies. We welcome proposals from scholars based anywhere in the world. We
The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) is a professional association of academics working within the Australian university sector. Its mission is to promote the value of tertiary language studies and to foster a strong research and publication culture within the
Lilith: A Feminist History Journal is an annual journal that publishes articles, essays and reviews in all areas of feminist and gender history (not limited to any particular region or time period). In addition to publishing research articles on diverse aspects of gender history, Lilith is also