Authors & editors
ANU Press has collaborated with a diverse range of authors and editors across a wide variety of academic disciplines. Browse the ANU Press collection by author or editor.
Jan Oosthoek »
Jan Oosthoek is an environmental historian based in Brisbane. For many years he has taught and researched at the Universities of Newcastle (UK) and Edinburgh. The research interests of Jan Oosthoek cover a wide range of topics within the field of Environmental history, including landscape history, the historical geography of forestry and land use and environmental globalization. In addition he is interested in the impact of environmental change on past human societies and how people responded to these changes. He has also served as vice president of the European Society for Environmental History (2005-2007) and is author of the leading environmental history website Environmental History Resources. Jan Oosthoek also produces a podcast entitled Exploring Environmental History.
Michelle Antoinette »
Michelle Antoinette is a researcher of modern and contemporary Asian art, currently affiliated with the Centre for Art History and Art Theory at The Australian National University (ANU). She was recently an Australian Research Council (ARC) Postdoctoral Fellow (2010–2013) and she has been convenor and lecturer at ANU for courses on Asian and Pacific art and museums. Her ARC project, ‘The Rise of New Cultural Networks in Asia in the Twenty-First Century’ (DP1096041), together with Caroline Turner, explored the emergence of new regional and international networks of contemporary Asian art and museums. Her ongoing research focuses on the contemporary art histories of South-East Asia on which she has published widely including her book, Reworlding Art History: Encounters with Contemporary Southeast Asian Art after 1990 (2014).
Will Sanders »
Will Sanders is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at The Australian National University.
Will joined CAEPR as a Research Fellow in 1993 and was appointed as Fellow in 1999 and Senior Fellow in 2007. His undergraduate training was in government, public administration, and political science, and his PhD was on the inclusion of Aboriginal people in the social security system. Will’s research interests cover the political and social aspects of Indigenous policy, as well the economic. He regularly works on Indigenous people’s participation in elections, on housing and social security policy issues, including the Community Development Employment Projects scheme, and on federal and intergovernmental aspects of Indigenous affairs policy.
Carmen Sarjeant »
Dr Carmen Sarjeant completed her PhD in Archaeology from The Australian National University in 2012. Her research concentrated on the ceramic material culture from southern Vietnam, and the development of Neolithic occupation in this region, and its connections to other regions within mainland Southeast Asia. Her research interests include material culture studies, comparative archaeology, archaeological theory, and archaeometry.
Jessica K Weir »
Dr Jessica Weir has published widely on water, native title and governance, and is the author of Murray River Country: An Ecological Dialogue with Traditional Owners (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009). Jessica’s work was recently included in Stephen Pincock’s Best Australian Science Writing 2011. In 2011 Jessica established the AIATSIS Centre for Land and Water Research, in the Indigenous Country and Governance Research Program at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
David Connery »
David Connery undertook his research for his Doctor of Philosophy at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. Prior to this he served in the Australian Army in regimental and staff postings including command of an air defence battery and an officer training regiment, postings to Army Headquarters and Strategic Policy Division, and an appointment at the Office of National Assessments. His other published work includes essays and monographs on future military capability, Australian national security planning, and Southeast Asian politics.
Martin Thomas »
Martin Thomas is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the School of History at The Australian National University and an Honorary Associate Professor in PARADISEC at the University of Sydney. His main interests are the perception of landscape, the history of cross-cultural encounter and inquiry, and the impact of technologies such as sound recording and photography that have transformed attitudes to space and time.
Martin is an oral-history interviewer for the National Library of Australia and has had long experience as a radio producer and broadcaster. His radio work began in New York in 1991 when interviews with homeless people became the basis for the ABC documentary Home Front Manhattan (1991)—a reflection on the First Gulf War. Since then he has made more than a dozen documentaries, including This is Jimmie Barker (2000), a study of the Aboriginal sound recordist, which was awarded the NSW Premier’s Audio/Visual History Prize.
Martin’s publications include The Artificial Horizon: Imagining the Blue Mountains (2003), winner of the Gleebooks Prize for Literary and Cultural Criticism in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards, and (as editor) Culture in Translation: The Anthropological Legacy of R. H. Mathews (2007). He is a leading authority on Mathews’ pioneering contribution to cross-cultural research in Australia and is author of a biographical study, The Many Worlds of R. H. Mathews (2011).
Martin’s current research is on the history and legacy of the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land. This involves archival research and ongoing fieldwork in Arnhem Land. In 2008 he was awarded a Smithsonian Institution Fellowship to study Arnhem Land collections and archives in Washington, DC. He is part of a team (including Linda Barwick and Allan Marett) that is studying the history and impacts of the Expedition, funded as a five-year Discovery Project by the Australian Research Council.
James Weiner »
James F. Weiner is a visiting fellow with the Crawford School of Public Policy and a consultant anthropologist based in Canberra, Australia. He has spent over three years in Papua New Guinea with the Foi people of the Southern Highlands Province, whose language he speaks. He has written four books on the Foi, including The Empty Place (1991), a study of the cultural relationship of the Foi to their land and territory, and has edited and co-edited three others including Mountain Papuans and the volumes Emplaced Myth and Mining and Indigenous Lifeworlds in Australia and Papua New Guinea, both with Alan Rumsey. He is the co-editor with Katie Glaskin of Customary Land Tenure and Registration in Australia and Papua New Guinea: Anthropological Perspectives (ANU E Press, 2007).
Ann McCulloch »
Associate Professor Ann McCulloch, PhD, teaches Literary studies at Deakin University, Melbourne, Australia. Her most recent book was Dance of the Nomad: A Study of the Selected Notebooks of A. D. Hope. She is the director and writer of a documentary series on Hope and many articles on his life and work. Ann McCulloch’s book on the works of Patrick White and Nietzsche heralded her original interest in tragedy and theory. She has written and produced twelve theatrical productions including two plays The Odyssey Enflamed and Let Gypsies Lie. Ann McCulloch is Executive Editor of the online journal Double Dialogues and co-convener of associated international conferences. As Coordinator of ‘Creative Discursive Strategies Net-work’ her current interests focus on how the Arts serve as ‘problem solvers’ in relation to social issues and has published widely on ‘Depression and its Expression’ and environmental issues. Ann McCulloch is currently working on four books with Ron Goodrich, John Forrest and Paul Monaghan respectively: ‘Nietzsche and Australian Writers’; ‘The Writing Workshops of Christina Stead’; ‘Poetry and Painting: The interface between Text and Images’ and ‘The Anatomy of Poetics’.
Evert A. Lindquist »
Dr Evert A. Lindquist is Professor and Director of the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada and Editor of Canadian Public Administration.
Sam Vincent »
Sam Vincent is commissioning editor at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Yung Chul Park »
Yung Chul Park is a professor of economics at Korea University. He is also a member of the National Economic Advisory Council. He was an ambassador for International Economy and Trade for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade from 2001 to 2002 and also chairman of the board, the Korea Exchange Bank in Seoul, 1999-2001. He previously served as the chief economic adviser to President Doo Hwan Chun of Korea, as president of the Korea Development Institute, as president of the Korea Institute Finance, and as a member of the Bank of Korea's Monetary Board. He was director of the Institute of Economic Research at Korea University, taught at Harvard University and Boston University as a visiting professor and worked for the International Monetary Fund. After completing undergraduate work at Seoul National University, he received his PhD from the University of Minnesota. From June to December of 1998, he managed the merger of Korea's two largest commercial banks as chairman of the CBK-Hanil Bank Merger Committee.
Takatoshi Ito »
Takatoshi Ito is a professor at the Graduate School of Economics at the University of Tokyo. He has taught at Hitotsubashi University, University of Minnesota and Harvard University. He also held the position of Senior Advisor in the Research Department, International Monetary Fund from 1994 to 1997 and Deputy Vice Minister for International Affairs at the Ministry of Finance, Japan from 1999 to 2001). He is an author of many books including The Japanese Economy (MIT Press, 1992), The Political Economy of the Japanese Monetary Policy and Financial Policy and Central Banking in Japan (both with T. Cargill and M. Hutchison).
George Nelson »
George Nelson is an Aboriginal Elder of both Yorta Yorta and Dja Dja Wurrung Nations and has been a keeper of his family stories for seventy-three years. George had a broken education as a child and finally had the opportunity of returning to study at the age of fifty-six, completing a degree in Aboriginal Administration in Adelaide. George also commenced a postgraduate thesis, and took a special interest in further researching the life of his Grampa Thomas Shadrach James, an Indian from Mauritius who was responsible for educating both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people on Maloga and Cummeragunga missions over a period of forty-one years. George himself has a highly successful professional running career, on the Australian Professional athletics circuit.
Robynne Nelson »
Robynne Nelson has extensive experience working in Aboriginal communities around Australia, and has managed her own consultancy company Healing the Spirit Pty Ltd, working around Victoria and into New South Wales, supporting Aboriginal organisations and communities in community development, policy development, and cultural competency training across various communities and organisations. She also provides alternative and traditional healing therapies to those in need. Her business had been put on the backburner for seven years whilst completing her father’s research into Grampa Thomas Shadrach James and his family history in Australia, Mauritius and India, writing Dharmalan Dana on behalf of her father, and the completion of the amazing body of work with her father.
Trevor Wilson »
Trevor Wilson retired in August 2003 after more than thirty-six years as a member of the Australian foreign service, the last fifteen as a member of the Senior Executive Service, after serving as Australian Ambassador to Myanmar (2000-03). Since October 2003 he has been a Visiting Fellow on Myanmar/Burma at the Department of Political and Social Change, School of International, Political and Strategic Studies, The Australian National University.
Since 2004, Trevor Wilson has been co-convener of the Myanmar/Burma Update conference series at ANU. He has (co)-edited four volumes of the conference papers, Myanmar’s Long Road to National Reconciliation (ISEAS 2006); and, with Monique Skidmore, Myanmar: the state, community and the environment (Asia Pacific Press, 2007); and Dictatorship, disorder and decline in Myanmar (ANU Press, 2008); and with Monique Skidmore and Nick Cheesman, Ruling Myanmar From Cyclone Nargis to National Elections (ISEAS 2010) based on the 2009 Myanmar/Burma Update. With David Kinley, he co-authored a case study of Australia’s human rights training in Myanmar ‘Engaging a pariah: Human rights training in Burma/Myanmar’ (Human Rights Quarterly, Vol. 29 No. 2, May 2007). He has written numerous opinion pieces and given many interviews about the situation in Myanmar/Burma.
Peter Baume »
Peter Baume is a physician and was a Liberal senator for New South Wales from 1974 to 1991, during which time he served as Minister for Aboriginal Affairs, Minister for Health and Minister for Education. Upon retiring from parliament he has been Professor of Community Medicine at the University of New South Wales, Chancellor of The Australian National University and Commissioner of the Australian Law Reform Commission and Foundation Chair at the Australian Sports Anti-Doping Authority.
Hyaeweol Choi »
Hyaeweol Choi is the ANU-Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies and Director of the Korea Institute at The Australian National University. Her research interests are in the areas of gender, culture, religion and diaspora. She is author of New Women in Colonial Korea: A Sourcebook (Routledge 2013) and Gender and Mission Encounters in Korea: New Women, Old Ways (University of California Press, 2009). She is currently working on a project, reexamining the modern history of women in Korea from a transnational perspective by focusing on the dynamic flow of the ideas, discourses and people across national boundaries that have triggered new gender images and bodily practices.
Atholl Anderson »
Atholl Anderson is a pre-historian in the Department of Archaeology and Natural History at ANU, who has undertaken extensive projects extending across the Pacific Ocean from Southeast Asia to South America and from equatorial to sub-polar regions, in addition to a current project on the human settlement of islands in the Indian Ocean. He has excavated numerous sites of early human colonisation and undertaken analyses, especially of radiocarbon chronologies, which demonstrate that patterns of migration and settlement were more episodic, less directed and generally younger than previously thought. This conclusion has led him to propose radically different explanations of Polynesian and other Indo-Pacific voyaging.
Brian Rappert »
Brian Rappert is a Professor of Science, Technology and Public Affairs in the Department of Sociology and Philosophy at the University of Exeter. His long term interest has been the examination of how choices can and are made about the adoption and regulation of technologies; this particularly in conditions of uncertainty and disagreement. His books include Controlling the Weapons of War: Politics, Persuasion, and the Prohibition of Inhumanity, Technology & Security (ed), Biotechnology, Security and the Search for Limits; and Education and Ethics in the Life Sciences (ANU Press). More recently he has been interested in the social, ethical, and epistemological issues associated with researching and writing about secrets, as in his book titled Experimental Secrets.
Samuel Furphy »
Dr Samuel Furphy is a Research Fellow in the National Centre of Biography, School of History, The Australian National University. His scholarly interests include Australian colonial history, British imperial history, Aboriginal history, and biography. Sam’s recent book – Edward M. Curr and the Tide of History – is a biography of a nineteenth century pastoralist, public servant, ethnologist, and Aboriginal administrator, whose written works were influential in the Yorta Yorta native title case. It was shortlisted for the Victorian Community History Awards in 2013.
Sam is a currently a Chief Investigator on the Australian Research Council project “Serving Our Country: A History of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People in the Defence of Australia.” In 2014 he will commence work on a new project as an ARC Discovery Early Career Research Fellow: “A Due Observance of Justice? Protectors of Aborigines in Britain’s Australasian Colonies, 1837-1857.”
Before joining the National Centre of Biography, Sam worked as a professional historian, writing several commissioned histories including Dimmeys of Richmond (2007) and Australian of the Year Awards: A Fiftieth Anniversary History (2010).
O.H.K. Spate »
Oskar Spate (1911- 2000) was born and educated in England where he completed a doctorate at the University of Cambridge in 1937 on the development of London. After the Second World War he combined lecturing in England with writing a regional geography of the Indian sub-continent.
In 1951 he took up the post of Foundation Professor of Geography in the Research School of Pacific Studies at The Australian National University, a position he held until 1967. From 1967 to 1972 he was Director of the Research School of Pacific Studies, ANU, and in 1972 moved to its Department of Pacific History.
Throughout his career, Oskar Spate published a wide diversity of papers and essays on such subjects as the geography of Europe, South Asia and Australia and the exploration of Australia and the Pacific. Upon his retirement in 1976, he devoted most of his energies to researching and writing his three-volume history The Pacific since Magellan.
Peter Chen »
Peter Chen is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.
Christine Stewart »
Christine Stewart graduated BA (Hons I) from Sydney University in 1966, where she studied Indonesian & Malayan Studies and Anthropology. She first came to PNG in 1968, and gained an LLB from the University of Papua New Guinea in 1976. She has worked in the Papua New Guinea Law Reform Commission, drafting legislation including the original drafts for management of domestic violence, and the Department of Justice and Attorney-General. She spend more than two years in Nauru, drafting legislation there, and subsequently took up consultancy work, the main feature of which was the drafting of the PNG HIV/AIDS Management and Prevention Act 2003 (the ‘HAMP Act’) and work on environment management. She was awarded her PhD from ANU in July 2012 for her thesis ‘Pamuk na Poofta: criminalising consensual sex in Papua New Guinea’, just as her first major publication, the volume Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea, co-edited with Margaret Jolly and published by ANU Press, was launched.
Yasmine Musharbash »
Yasmine Musharbash has been undertaking research with Warlpiri people at Yuendumu and in wider central Australia since the mid-1990s. She has an MA from Freie Universität Berlin (1997) and a PhD (2003) from The Australian National University. From 2004 to 2008, she was a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Western Australia and now is a lecturer in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. She is the author of Yuendumu Everyday. Contemporary Life in Remote Aboriginal Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2009) and co-editor of Mortality, Mourning, and Mortuary Practices in Indigenous Australia (with K. Glaskin, M. Tonkinson and V. Burbank, Ashgate, 2008) and You’ve Got to be Joking! Anthropological Perspectives on Humour and Laughter (with J. Carty, Anthropological Forum Special Issue, 2008).