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.
Anthony J Regan »
Anthony Regan is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra. His main field of research is the law and politics of constitutions, conflict and reconciliation, and he has worked in Papua New Guinea, Uganda, East Timor and Solomon Islands. He was an advisor to the Bougainville Parties in the Bougainville peace process, 1997 to 2005.
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi »
A Haroon Akram-Lodhi teaches rural development economics at the Institute of Social Studes, The Hague, The Netherlands and has written on and lived in Fiji.
Gavan Breen »
Gavan Breen began his working life as a metallurgist, but switched to linguistics in his early thirties to become involved in the salvage of dying Australian languages. He has spent many years recording and analysing almost-extinct (now extinct) languages in western Queensland and adjacent parts of inland Australia. He has worked with the School of Australian Linguistics, training native speakers of Australian languages in vernacular literacy, basic linguistics and other skills relevant to teaching and literature production in bilingual education, translation and interpreting, lexicography and other language-related work. He has also done substantial work on Arrernte and other living languages of Central Australia, especially in phonology, the interrelationship of kinship and grammar, and compilation of dictionaries.
Philip Taylor »
Philip Taylor is Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU), and Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. He has been conducting research in the Mekong Delta since the early 1990s. He has authored and edited numerous books and scholarly articles on history, religion, ethnicity, economy, and environment in Vietnam. His latest book, The Khmer Lands of Vietnam, was co-published in 2014 by NUS Press, NIAS Press, and University of Hawaii Press. At ANU, he supervises PhD students working on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Along with ANU Vietnam studies colleagues, he has been involved with organising the Vietnam Update series since 2003.
Stephanie Lawson »
Stephanie Lawson is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney; Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg; and Visiting Professor at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University. Among her many publications is the award-winning The failure of democratic politics in Fiji.
Tamatoa Bambridge »
Tamatoa Bambridge is a research director at the French CNRS. Trained as an anthopologist, he works on land and sea tenure in Eastern Polynesia. His major focus of interest is on the interaction between state law and local norms about resource management, traditional knowledge, and marine and land tenure.
Åsa Ferrier »
Åsa Ferrier is an Australian archaeologist with a special interest in Aboriginal–European contact history and Aboriginal archaeology of north Queensland’s tropical rainforest and savannah regions. Her research typically integrates a diverse range of data sources: archaeological evidence recovered from Aboriginal occupation sites, historical documents, survey and vegetation maps of early ethnographers, settlers and explorers, complemented with Indigenous bio-cultural knowledge. Åsa is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, and currently a collaborator on several research projects in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Dr Kirstie Close-Barry »
Dr Kirstie Close-Barry has worked as a historian in Melbourne universities since 2006. Her research has taken her from the United States of America, to Far North Queensland and out into the Pacific. Along the way she earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts, and examined colonialism in her home country, Australia. Realising that her family’s history was tangled with colonialism in the Pacific, she then decided, in her doctorate, to confront the policies they adopted while working for the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia. She continues to draw attention to Australia’s colonial past in the Pacific through her teaching and research in Australia, and the Pacific Adventist University in Papua New Guinea. Dr Close‑Barry has accepted an invitation to join State, Society & Governance in Melanesia at The Australian National University as a visiting researcher.
Brett Bennett »
Brett Bennett is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg and an Associate in the Centre for Environmental History at The Australian National University.
Fred Kruger »
Fred Kruger is a Research Associate in the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State. During his career, Kruger has served in a variety of research and executive positions, including the Officer in Charge at the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Station, Director of the South African Forestry Research Institute, Director of Forestek (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), and as a consultant and educator.
Geremie R Barmé »
Geremie R Barmé is an historian, editor and translator who has published widely on late-imperial and modern China. He is the Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
Jeremy Goldkorn »
Jeremy Goldkorn is a writer and new media entrepreneur and founder of Danwei.com, the digital research collaborator of China in the World. He relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2015 after twenty years of living and working in Beijing.
Geoffrey Lancaster »
Geoffrey Lancaster has been at the forefront of the historically inspired performance movement for 40 years. He was the first Australian to win a major international keyboard competition, receiving first prize in the 23rd Festival van Vlaanderen International Mozart Fortepiano Competition, Brugge.
He has appeared to acclaim as keyboardist and conductor with such orchestras as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Cologne Gürzenich, Ensemble 415, Concerto Copenhagen, Tafelmusik, and every major Australian orchestra. Former Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players and Chief Conductor of La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, he has lectured at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and other significant Early Music schools.
In 2006 Dr Lancaster was Australian of the Year for the Australian Capital Territory. His other honours include ARIA and Gramophone awards for some of his more than fifty recordings, the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship, HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship, Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Order of Arts and Letters and the Order of Australia.
Bruce Hamon »
Bruce Hamon was born in Sydney in 1917, but spent his childhood and primary school years at Bawley Point. His secondary schooling was at St Patrick’s College, Goulburn. Bruce then studied science and engineering at Sydney University. He joined the CSIRO in 1941, and remained with them until retiring in 1979. Initially he worked on electrical standards, but in 1957 he transferred to the Division of Fisheries (later the Division of Oceanography) at Cronulla, where his interests were ocean currents, tides and mean sea levels. Bruce’s other interests were fishing, canoeing, bushwalking, birdwatching and woodwork. He passed away in 2014.
Fadwa Al-Yaman »
Fadwa Al-Yaman is Group Head, Social and Indigenous Group at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Michelle Gourley »
Michelle Gourley is Unit Head, Indigenous Data Analysis and Reporting Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
R.J. Lawrence »
John Lawrence was born in 1931 and was educated in Adelaide. Later, as a Rhodes Scholar in Magdalen College, Oxford, he completed a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After a period of employment in the social work section of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, he studied at The Australian National University and received his PhD. In 1961, he was appointed to the University of Sydney in the first Australian academic post in social administration. In 1964, he became a member of the Federal Council of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Noah Riseman »
Noah Riseman is an Associate Professor in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He is the author of Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War and co-author of the book Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945.
Sandra Tarte »
Sandra Tarte is Head of the School of Government, Development and International Affairs at the University of the South Pacific. She specialises in the international politics of the Pacific Islands region and her publications include Japan’s Aid Diplomacy and the Pacific Islands (1998).
Australian Centre on China in the World »
The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is a research institution established to enhance the existing capabilities of The Australian National University (ANU). It aims to be an integrated, world-leading institution for Chinese Studies and the understanding of China, or what has been
Nicolas Peterson »
Nicolas Peterson is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University. His main areas of research have been with Yolngu people in northeast Arnhem Land and Warlpiri people in the Tanami desert. His research interests include economic anthropology, social change, land and marine tenure, fourth world people and the state, the anthropology of photography and the history of the discipline in Australia. Some publications in this latter area include, Studying Man and Man’s Nature: The History of Institutionalisation of Aboriginal Anthropology (Australian Aboriginal Institute of Studies, 1990); Donald Thomson: The Man and Scholar (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2005) edited with Bruce Rigsby; and The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections (Melbourne University Press, 2008) edited with Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby.
Fred Myers »
Fred Myers is the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Myers has written frequently on questions of place and personhood, on Western Desert painting, and more generally on culture, objects and identity as they are understood within Indigenous communities and circulated through different regimes of value. His books include Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines (1986), Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (2002) and edited volumes The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Anthropology and Art (co-edited with George Marcus, 1995) and The Empire of Things (2001). His current project involves the repatriation and ‘re-documentation’ of film footage from 1974 with the two current Pintupi communities.
Matt Tomlinson »
Matt Tomlinson is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. He has conducted research in Fiji, New Zealand and Sāmoa on the topics of language, politics, ritual and Christianity. He is author of In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (2009) and Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (2014), and he has co-edited volumes including The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity(with Matthew Engelke, 2006) and Christian Politics in Oceania (with Debra McDougall, 2013).
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan »
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research interests include Indigenous theory and methodology, cultural politics in Hawai‘i and the Pacific, colonialism, nationalism, and gender and masculinities. He is author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i (2008). He is also co-editor, with Tēvita O. Ka‘ili and Rochelle Tuitagava‘a Fonotī, of the first collaborative publication of Indigenous anthropologists in Oceania (in Pacific Studies), and with Paul Lyons of a collection on Native Pacific currents in American Studies (in American Quarterly).
Allison Cadzow »
Allison Cadzow is a Research Associate on ‘Serving Our Country: A History of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Defence of Australia’, an ARC-funded Linkage project based at The Australian National University. Allison is co-author of Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney’s Georges River (UNSW Press, 2009) with Professor Heather Goodall (shortlisted for the 2010 NSW Premier’s History Awards). She co-edited Nelson Aboriginal Studies (Nelson Cengage, 2012) with Professor John Maynard. Her PhD, completed at the University of Technology, Sydney (2002), examined non-Aboriginal Australian women’s involvement in expeditions of the 1840s to 1940s.