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.
Joanne Leung »
Joanne Leung is a principal economist at the New Zealand Ministry of Transport and has been the Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Government Economics Network since November 2014. Joanne has over 15 years’ public service experience, including practical Cost-Benefit Analysis in the New Zealand Land Transport Safety Authority and New Zealand Ministry of Transport.
George Argyrous »
Dr George Argyrous is a Senior Lecturer at ANZSOG on secondment from the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, where he has taught political economy, research methods and statistics since 1992, publishing many articles on the use and abuse of research. He is also the author of the popular international text Statistics for Research, which is now in its third edition and has been translated into Chinese, and the editor of Evidence for policy and decision-making: a practical guide, published by UNSW Press.
Dean Ansell »
Dean Ansell is a postgraduate researcher at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. His PhD focuses on the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. His research also involves on-ground evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of ecological restoration projects in farmland in southeast Australia. He has more than 15 years experience working with government and non-government organisations on biodiversity conservation and natural resource management in Australia and internationally.
Fiona Gibson »
Fiona Gibson is Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Western Australia. She received her doctorate from the University of Western Australia in 2011. Fiona is currently working in the space of bushfire management, biodiversity, and water resources. Her research aim is to provide better advice to decision makers on effective policy design and the factors driving community adoption of such policies.
David Salt »
David Salt is the editor of Decision Point, the monthly research magazine of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions. Decision Point presents news and views on environmental decision-making, biodiversity, and conservation planning and monitoring. Prior to working on Decision Point, David created and produced The Helix magazine for CSIRO Education, Newton magazine for Australian Geographic, Materials Monthly for ANU Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials, and ScienceWise for ANU College of Science.
Hank Nelson »
Hank Nelson graduated from the University of Melbourne. He taught in government schools and at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before being appointed to the Administrative College in Port Moresby in 1966. In 1968 he joined the History Department of the University of Papua New Guinea, where he taught until he moved to The Australian National University in 1973. After initially joining the Research School of Social Sciences, he was appointed in 1975 to the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, where he held various positions before becoming a Professor in 1993. After he retired in 2002 he continued his association with ANU as Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and as Chair of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program. His books include Papua New Guinea: Black Unity or Black Chaos and Taim Bilong Masta: The Australian Involvement in Papua New Guinea. Hank wrote on a wide variety of topics and he and his work are remembered by students and colleagues in The Boy from Boort, published by ANU Press (2014).
Frank Frost »
Frank Frost has a BA Hons and PhD from the University of Sydney and has a long-standing interest in Australian foreign policy and Australia-Asia relations. His doctoral thesis was a study of the politics of the Australian military involvement in the Vietnam war from 1962 to 1972. Until February 2012 he worked as a research director and senior foreign affairs analyst in the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section of the Australian Parliamentary Library in Canberra, where he provided research and policy advice to Members and Senators and to committees of the Australian Parliament. He has also taught politics and international relations at the University of Sydney and been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and at the Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane.
Frank Frost’s publications include Australia's War in Vietnam (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987) and numerous articles and papers on ASEAN and Australia-ASEAN relations, including 'ASEAN and Regional Cooperation: Recent Developments and Australia’s Interests' (Canberra: Department of Parliamentary Services, 2013). He wrote Engaging the neighbours: Australia and ASEAN since 1974 as a Visiting Fellow from 2012 to 2015 in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
Peter J. Hempenstall »
Peter Hempenstall is Professor Emeritus of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Conjoint Professor with the University of Newcastle in Australia. Pacific Islanders under German Rule was his first book, researched in the archives of West and East Germany in the 1970s and in the Pacific Islands. He has written books on Pacific, Australian and New Zealand history, and is the author of three biographies, including The Lost Man: Wilhelm Solf in German History (with Paula Tanaka Mochida). His latest book (Truth’s Fool) is about the anthropologist Derek Freeman and his war with American anthropologists over Freeman’s criticism of Margaret Mead’s research on Samoan society. He lives in Newcastle, Australia.
Timothy J. Macnaught »
Timothy Macnaught was amongst the first graduates of Macquarie University and completed his doctorate, on which this monograph is based, at ANU in 1975. After teaching history at the University of Hawaii for five years, he returned to Australia to serve in senior positions in church secondary schools in Victoria. In 1997 he joined the Office of National Assessments (ONA) in Canberra as senior analyst for the Oceania Branch to prepare classified reports for the Prime Minister and senior ministers. He retired from ONA in 2015.
Daniel Marston »
Daniel Marston BA MA (McGill) DPhil (Oxon) FRHistS is Professor in Military Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. He previously held the Ike Skelton Distinguished Chair in the Art of War at the US Army Command and General Staff College. He has been a Visiting Fellow on multiple occasions with the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War at the University of Oxford. He has won and been runner-up for the Field Marshal Templer Medal in the UK in 2004 and 2014. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK.
Tamara Leahy »
Tamara Leahy is the Chief of Staff for the Military and Defence Studies Program (SDSC ANU) at the Australian Command and Staff College. In 2011, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Law (Honours) from The Australian National University, where she is currently attempting the Master of Strategic Studies through the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
J. Rob Bray »
J. Rob Bray was a Research Fellow at the Research School of Economics and is now a Research Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University.
Brendan Brady »
Brendan Brady is Project Manager/ Senior Data Analyst, Functioning and Disability Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Le Anh Pham »
Le Anh Pham is Project Manager, Health Performance Framework Report Project at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Emma Williams »
Emma Williams is a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University.
Marc F. Oxenham »
Marc F Oxenham is an Associate Professor in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology in Biological Anthropology & Archaeology at The Australian National University. He is currently an Australian Future Fellow with a research focus on human biological responses to major changes in subsistence, technology and mobility in the ancient Southeast Asian past. Marc is also a consulting forensic anthropologist and archaeologist who has worked extensively with Unrecovered War Casualties – Army (UWCA) over the last several years.
Mario Daniel Martín »
Dr Mario Daniel Martín is an Associate Professor in Spanish in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at The Australian National University. He has published academic work related to literature, the practice of creative writing, the use of technology in language teaching, the history of language teaching in Australia, and the sociolinguistics situation of the Spanish‐speaking community in Australia. He led the ANU Spanish program to a prestigious 2012 national Award for a Program that Enhances Learning (Australian Awards for University Teaching).
Louise Jansen »
Dr Louise Jansen is a lecturer and researcher in German and Applied Linguistics at ANU. As a passionate teacher of German, Dr Jansen spearheaded the case study of retention in L&C programs at ANU, on which this monograph is based. She conducts theory-driven data-based research in second language acquisition with a focus on explanations of second language development within the framework of Processability Theory.
Elizabeth Beckmann »
Dr Elizabeth A. Beckmann is an Australian National Teaching Fellow with research interests in academic development, professional recognition of university teachers, and teaching innovations. Based at The Australian National University Centre for Higher Education, Learning and Teaching, she has won multiple institutional and national teaching awards, and leads the ANU Educational Fellowship Scheme.
Marivic Wyndham »
Dr Marivic Wyndham is Senior Lecturer, School of International Studies, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. With her co-author Peter Read she has published several articles on contemporary Cuban and Chilean societies, all set in the field of place studies and focusing on the themes of custodianship of place and the politics of memorialisation.
Melinda Hinkson »
Melinda Hinkson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, and visiting fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University. Among her recent publications is Remembering the Future: Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014).
Stephen Boyden »
Stephen Boyden graduated in Veterinary Science in London in 1947. From 1949 to 1965 he carried out research in immunology in Cambridge, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and Canberra. From 1965 until his retirement he pioneered work on human ecology and biohistory at The Australian National University (ANU) and in UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. In the 1970s he initiated and directed the Hong Kong Human Ecology Program, which was the first comprehensive study of the ecology of a city. After retirement (1991) he established and worked with the Nature and Society Forum — a community-based organisation concerned with the well-being of humankind and the environment. He has authored and co-authored many books and articles on biohistory and urban ecology. At present he is Emeritus Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU.
Sudrishti Reich »
Sudrishti Reich is a senior lecturer in the Migration Law Program of ANU College of Law, The Australian National University. She has a long-standing interest and expertise in migration law, and practised as a registered migration agent and solicitor in the field since 1997. From 1997 to 2002, Sudrishti was the principal solicitor of the specialist community legal centre Immigration Advice and Rights Centre in Sydney. She is author of two editions of the immigration law practitioners’ bible: The Immigration Kit. Since leaving legal practice, Sudrishti has focused on teaching and developing courses in Australian migration law, and pursuing research interests in migration law and professional identity of migration agents. She teaches and develops courses within the Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law, and the Master of Laws in Migration Law. Sudrishti is General Editor of Immigration Review, published by LexisNexis.
Dorota Gozdecka »
Dorota Anna Gozdecka completed her PhD in legal theory in 2009 at the University of Helsinki, and has recently obtained the title of docent (adjunct professor) of jurisprudence from the same university. Her primary research area focuses on legal theoretical aspects related to the accommodation of cultural diversity. Her recent publications — such as Identity, Subjectivity and the Access to the Community of Rights, a special issue of Social Identities (2015), the monograph Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice (2015), and the edited volume Europe at the Edge of Pluralism — explore, in particular, questions of otherness created by contemporary legal regimes. Issues related to the recognition of difference and the place of the other have recently led her to shift her research focus to the area of law and humanities, and to explore the relationship between law and image in the area of migration law. Dorota has previously held research fellowships at the UC Berkeley Institute for European Studies (2013), ANU Centre for European Studies (2012–13), and the European University Institute (2008). She has won prestigious research grants, such as the University of Helsinki three-year grant for an international research project ‘Law and the Other’, which she is currently leading.
Marianne Dickie »
Marianne Dickie is a senior academic at the Migration Law Program in ANU College of Law. She is passionate about migration law and practice, having worked extensively in the migration field since 1993. Marianne remains determined to improve the legal support system for all migrants by providing future migration agents and legal practitioners the best possible education. Marianne managed the Migration Law Program from 2007–15 as convenor, sub-dean and director. Marianne also understands the importance of grassroots work in this legal space. In 2007, she established a pro bono migration advice clinic that provides support previously unavailable or unaffordable to migrants in the ACT. Her commitment to human rights was recognised in 2012 when she was a finalist for the ACT Australian of the Year. Marianne is a general editor of Immigration Review, published by LexisNexis, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a registered migration agent, holds a master’s degree in higher education, and is currently completing a doctorate of professional studies focusing on migration agents. She continues to research and write in her two areas of passion: education and migration.