Authors & editors
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Porer Nombo »
Porer Nombo is Local Government representative (Komiti) for the villages of Reite, Sarangama and Marpungae in Ward 16 of Mot 1 District on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea, a position he has been asked to occupy since the early 1980s. Growing up in the village in the 1950s and 60s, he never learned to read or write but was educated about plants and healing, among other things, by his elders, and is recognised as the leading local authority on kastom (effective modes of action from past and present). In 2000, he gave a presentation to the Motupore Island Seminar on Intellectual and Cultural Property in Port Moresby organised by the University of Papua New Guinea, and in 2009 he visited the UK at the request of the British Museum to assist them in their work.
Christopher B. Yardley »
Chris Yardley worked as a salesman in the computer industry for 46 years, during 1961–2005. His career, following every opportunity afforded, resulted in him living and working in five countries during this time. He has travelled extensively in some thirty countries. He has a real interest in the political and cultures of these countries and how it determines the salesman’s approach to doing business. Prior to retirement he undertook making a record of the computer industry in which he was working coming to the conclusion that it had been the front-line salesmen who had created the computer and communications explosion we have seen since the 1980s.
Post retirement he has undertaken a Master of Science Communication at the Australian National University and followed that with a science communication study leading to a PhD.
David McDonald »
David McDonald BA, DipSocWk, MA, GradDipPoplnHlth is a social scientist with research interests including dialogue, knowledge integration and building evidence-based public policy. He has wide experience in research & evaluation, policy analysis and policy & program development, particularly in the alcohol and other drugs, criminal justice and related fields.
David is a Visiting Fellow at ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and the Director of the Canberra-based consultancy Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd. Earlier positions he has held include Senior Criminologist at the Australian Institute of Criminology, and Deputy Head of Research at the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Arif Zamhari »
Arif Zamhari is a lecturer in Islamic State University in Malang and Al-Hikam College in Malang. He is also active in an interfaith dialog project held by International Conference of Islamic Scholars (ICIS) in Jakarta.
Chris Aulich »
Chris Aulich is a Professor of Public Administration at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra. He joined the University after a decade in the ACT and Commonwealth public services. Since then he has worked extensively on tracing Australia’s policies of privatisation from Hawke-Keating through to John Howard’s government and has published extensively in academic journals, professional magazines and books on issues relating to both local government and to privatisation.
Chris has jointly edited four books, three of which mapped the main developments in the Howard and Rudd government periods. He has held visiting positions at St Andrews University and the University of Hong Kong and has extensive experience teaching courses in public administration in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Bhutan.
Mark Evans »
Professor Mark Evans is the Director for the ANZSOG Institute for Governance. This role draws on Mark’s considerable international experience in supporting and training senior civil servants and in evaluating public policy programs. The emphasis of his work at ANZSOG will be fourfold: the provision of the ACT with strategic training and research support; the delivery of an Executive MPA module in designing public policies; the development of short courses in conflict transformation; and, in the medium-term the development of an international MPA program.
Before taking this role, Mark was Head of the Department of Politics and Director of York MPA and professional training programs at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Between 1998 and 2009 Mark played the central strategic role in the development of the department’s graduate school and the creation of three successful interdisciplinary research centres – York MPA and professional training programmes, Politics, Economics and Philosophy and Post-war Reconstruction and Development.
Mark has also played an international role in supporting good administrative practices in public administration in developed and developing contexts as well as the reconstruction of public administration in war-torn societies. He has delivered training and managed evaluation projects on the behest of the World Bank, United Nations agencies, the European Union, the Consortium of Humanitarian Affairs in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the British Council and the West Asia and North Africa Forum, as well as government departments such as: the UK’s Cabinet Office and departments for International Development, Work and Pensions, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; China’s National School of Administration and Social and Economic Reform Commission and others.
His recent books include: Constitution-making and the Labour Party (2005); Post-war Reconstruction and Policy Transfer (2009); New Directions in the Study of Policy Transfer (2009) and Understanding Competition States (2009) and has been the editor of the international journal Policy Studies since 2005.
Christine Winter »
Christine Winter is Research Fellow, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South (REGS) at Sydney University, Visiting Fellow at the College of the Asia Pacific, Australian National University, and Associate Senior Fellow, HPRC, University of Queensland.
Her transnational historical research connects the Pacific with Europe and Australasia. She has published widely on National Socialism in Oceania, transnational politics of humanitarianism during WWII, and Germans in the Pacific. Most recently she has published a monograph on the politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission at the End of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich (Looking after One’s Own, Peter Lang Verlag 2012), and co-edited a volume on Australasian social scientists and the impact WWII had on their scholarship and disciplines (Scholars at War, ANU E-Press, 2012). She is presently working on a project on the legacies of the German colonial empire in the Global South: German Mixed-Race Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandated Territories: Scientific theories, politics and identity transformation.
Christine studied Theology and Comparative Religion in Germany, and received her PhD in history from ANU in 2005. In 2010 she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Queensland. Most recently, in 2012 she was International Visiting Fellow, Research Group Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin.
Seumas Miller »
Seumas Miller is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) at Charles Sturt University (Canberra) and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology (The Hague). He is the foundation director of CAPPE (2000-2007), Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU 1994-9 and Professor of Philosophy at The Australian National University (2003-11). He is the author or co-author of over 150 academic articles and 15 books, including Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators (Blackwell, 2014), Security and Privacy (lead author John Kleinig) (ANU Press, 2012), Moral Foundations of Social Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy (Blackwell, 2009), Corruption and Anti-corruption (Prentice Hall, 2005), Ethical Issues in Policing (Ashgate, 2005), and Social Action: A Teleological Account (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Lynette Russell »
Lynette Russell is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash University, Melbourne. She has published extensively on history and colonialism, cross-cultural encounters and frontier relations.
Leigh Boucher »
Leigh Boucher is a Lecturer in History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published research on liberalism, race and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Victoria.
Richard Blewett »
Richard Blewett, an Aussie by birth, left for Africa and UK in the 1970s. He graduated 1st class Hons in Geology from Swansea University (Wales) in 1985. Following a year in industry in South Africa, he completed a PhD in structural geology from Leicester University in the UK (1989). During this time he worked in the French Alps, Canadian Appalachians, British Caledonides and Nepalese Himalaya.
Richard joined Geoscience Australia in 1990, and has worked in North Queensland, the Pilbara, Sultanate of Oman, the Yilgarn, Gawler–Curnamona, Arunta and Mugraves. Richard was the Chief Editor of Shaping a nation: A geology of Australia, which was a joint GA–ANU Press publication for the Brisbane 2012 International Geological Congress. He is interested in the management of science and research and has an MBA from Deakin University (2001).
He is presently the Group Leader of Regional Geology and Mineral Systems in the Minerals and Natural Hazards Division at Geoscience Australia.
Thomas Reuter »
Prof Thomas Reuter is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, located at the Asia Institute of The University of Melbourne. After obtaining his PhD from ANU in 1997, he taught at Heidelberg University, held post-doctoral and QElI Fellowships at Melbourne, and a Research Fellowship at Monash University. He was President of the Australian Anthropological Association (2002-2005) and is the chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, and an executive member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Research has focused on Indonesian ethnology (Bali, Java, Kalimantan), New Social Movements, Religion, Political Anthropology, Social Organization, Status, Globalisation and General Theory. Thomas has authored more than fifty articles and the following seven books: Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. Honolulu: Hawaii UP, 2002. The House of Our Ancestors: Precedence and Dualism in Highland Balinese Society. Leiden (Netherlands): KITLV Press, 2002. Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge, 2003. Budaya dan Masyarakat di Pegunungan Bali. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor, 2005. Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian world. Canberra: ANU Press, 2006. Global Trends in Religion, and the Reaffirmation of Hindu Identity in Bali. Clayton: Monash Asia Institute Press, 2008. The Return to Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, Caulfield: MAI Press, 2010.
Don Niles »
Don Niles is Acting Director and Senior Ethnomusicologist of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. He is interested in research and publication on all types of music and dance in Papua New Guinea, including traditional, popular, and Christian forms. The author/editor of numerous books, articles, and audiovisual publications on various aspects of music, dance, and archiving, Don also edits the Institute’s music monograph series (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics) and journal (Kulele: Occasional Papers in Pacific Music and Dance). He is a vice president of the International Council for Traditional Music and former editor of their journal, the Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Alistair Noble »
Alistair Noble is an Australian-born pianist, composer and musicologist. He has performed extensively in recital around Australia, and made many broadcasts for the national (ABC) radio. As a chamber musician he has worked many fine performers, and as a piano duo performs regularly with his brother Colin Noble. He was a founding member of the ensemble Lachrymae Musarum (Sydney) and of the Newling Ensemble (Armidale). His compositions have been performed, recorded and broadcast in Australia and North America.
Alistair holds a PhD in composition and musicology, and is currently Head of Theory and a lecturer in Musicology at The Australian National University’s School of Music. Alistair’s primary research area is mid-20th century music, with a special focus on the work of Morton Feldman, Stefan Wolpe and Edgard Varèse.
Fadzilah Majid Cooke »
Fadzilah Majid Cooke is Associate Professor in Environmental Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) an appointment she has held since 2003. At UMS she was Head of the Ethnography and Development Research Unit from 2005 until 2008. Before joining UMS, from 1995 to 1997, she was a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. From 1998 to 2002, she won two fellowships, a postdoctoral at RMIT and a research fellowship at The Australian National University (2000 to 2001). She has undertaken research and published in the area of agricultural development, environmental change, customary land and the politics of civil society for close to 15 years starting with her PhD work at Griffith University. She has published nationally and in Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Gary P. Morriss »
Gary Morriss was born in Singleton, Australia in 1951. He obtained a B.Math. with first class honours in mathematics/physics at Newcastle University in 1976 and gained his Ph.D. in statistical mechanics from Melbourne University in 1980. After postdoctoral appointments at Cornell and ANU, he became a Research Fellow and later Senior Research Fellow at ANU. In 1989 he was appointed as Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales. He is now a Professor in theoretical physics and serves as Undergraduate Director in the School of Physics. His research interests are statistical mechanics and dynamical systems.
Kirsty Gillespie »
is senior curator (anthropology) at the Museum of Tropical Queensland and a member of staff at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. She received her PhD from The Australian National University in 2008 for research into the music of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Kirsty is the author of Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (ANU E Press, 2010) amongst other publications. Since 2007 Kirsty has worked with the people of the Lihir Island Group, PNG, on a cultural heritage programme as they experience large-scale gold mining. In 2013 she co-curated the exhibition Musical Landscapes of Lihir at the University of Queensland (UQ) Anthropology Museum. Kirsty is also an honorary fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ.
P.G. Toner »
Peter Toner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a social anthropologist and ethnomusicologist who has conducted research and written on the relationship of music to sociality, ritual, and place in northern Australia; on digital audio, memory, and archival institutions; and on folk music and the invention of tradition in Atlantic Canada.
Bob Breen »
Bob Breen’s experience in first-hand research on international and regional peace support operations began in Somalia in 1993 and continued in Rwanda, the Middle East, Mozambique, Bougainville and East Timor periodically until 2002 when he began a PhD program at ANU, graduating in 2006. In 2007 he visited Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a review of Australian military force projection. In 2008 he published Struggling for Self Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s. In the same year he also co-authored a monograph for the Land Warfare Studies Centre, The world looking over their shoulders: Australian Strategic Corporals on Operations in Somalia and East Timor. He published two studies for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on meeting security challenges in the South Pacific and strengthening civil-military collaboration for responding to overseas emergencies in 2009 .
Currently, he is writing a volume of the official history of Australian peacekeeping in the South Pacific 1980-2006 and completing a manuscript on the Adaptive Army initiative 2007-2010.
Ryan Walter »
Dr Ryan Walter, author of A Critical History of the Economy, researches the relationship between politics and economic knowledge. He lectures in political theory at the School of Political Science and International Studies, University of Queensland.
Alan Rumsey »
Alan Rumsey first came to Australia in 1975 as a University of Chicago PhD student to study language and its relation to other aspects of social life among the Ngarinyin people in the Kimberley district of Western Australia. During 1978-95 he lectured in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. While continuing his work with Aboriginal people in the Kimberleys, since 1981 Rumsey has done his main research in the Ku Waru region in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, partly in collaboration with Francesca Merlan. Their work there has included projects on language and politics, verbal art, and child language socialization. In 1996 Rumsey joined the Anthropology Department in what is now the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, where he is a Professor and former Head of Department. In 2004 Rumsey was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. During 2010-11 he served as President of the Australian Anthropological Society. He is currently heading a major, ARC funded comparative project on Children’s language learning and the development of intersubjectivity, with special focus on Ku Waru children’s interactions with adults and other children . Key publications include ‘Wording, meaning and linguistic ideology’ (American Anthropologist 90: 91:346-61, 1990); Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Francesca Merlan, 1991); ‘Agency, personhood and the ‘I’ of discourse in the Pacific and beyond’ (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6:101-115, 2000); Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands (ANU Press, co-edited with Don Niles, 2011); and ‘Intersubjectivity, deception, and the “opacity of other minds”: perspectives from Highland New Guinea and beyond’ (Language and Communication 33:326-43, 2013).
Richard Eves »
Richard Eves is an anthropologist who has published widely on issues of social change in Papua New Guinea. He is currently a Senior Fellow at State Society and Governance in Melanesia at The Australian National University. In 2008, with Leslie Butt, he co-edited the ground-breaking volume Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia (2008), a collection of anthropological papers on how the epidemic is being understood and responded to in Melanesia. Most of his recent work deals with contemporary issues in Melanesia, straddling the boundaries between anthropology, development and international health, with a particular focus on gender, violence and the AIDS epidemic.
Alison M. Behie »
Alison M Behie is a Lecturer in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology in Biological Anthropology at The Australian National University. Her chief research foci include primate behaviour and conservation, and the impact of nutrition on stress and disease in non-human primates. Moreover, she is also studying the effects of habitat disturbance, including environmental disasters on humans and non-human primates. Alison runs a primate behavior and conservation field school in Cambodia each year.
Annemarie Devereux »
Annemarie Devereux is an international and public lawyer with particular expertise in the fields of international law, constitutional law and human rights. Her particular familiarity with Timor-Leste comes from her work as a legal adviser with the human rights component of three peacekeeping missions in Timor-Leste, working on rule of law issues. This included observing and assisting the constitutional process of 2001–2002. She has also worked with the United Nations in other contexts (including with the Security Council’s CTED, OHCHR, and a variety of International Commissions of Inquiry), as well as with the Australian Government’s Attorney-General’s Department. Alongside her legal practice, she has continued to research and teach in the areas of international law and public law.
Richard Tanter »
Richard Tanter has worked on security and environmental issues as a teacher, researcher, policy analyst, and advocate in Australia, the United States, Japan, Korea and Indonesia since the 1970s. He is currently Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and Professorial Fellow (Honorary) in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. At Melbourne University he teaches on nuclear weapons, and on East and Southeast Asian issues.
Richard has been researching a range of technical and strategic issues related to US and Australian intelligence and military facilities in Australia, including the 2012 study The “Joint Facilities” revisited – Desmond Ball, democratic debate on security, and the human interest, and he is currently completing a study of Pine Gap, North West Cape, and Geraldton, and other major facilities in Australia. With Desmond Ball, he is completing a major research study of Japanese electronic intelligence organization, part of which, The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Defence Capabilities, was recently published by ANU Press. In recent work at the Nautilus Institute he has been working mainly on questions of East Asian nuclear deterrence and the North East Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal.
Richard is a frequent commentator on international affairs in newspapers, radio and television, quoted in the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Asahi Shimbun, Australian Financial Review, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Tempo, Jakarta Post, ABC, BBC, VOA, Al Jazeera, Straits Times and Pravda.