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.
Kingsley Palmer »
Kingsley Palmer is a consultant anthropologist specialising in the field of native title in Australia. Having worked in this area for more than 20 years, he has conducted extensive research in numerous areas of rural and remote Australia, prepared many expert reports and been called as an expert witness for cases brought before the Federal Court. He has published widely on the practice of anthropology within the native title context and on the anthropologist as expert. He was author of Noongar People, Noongar Land, published in 2016 (AIATSIS, Canberra, in conjunction with the South West Aboriginal Land and Sea Council, Perth); this was an edited version of the expert report he wrote for the Single Noongar Claim.
Chris Gregory »
Chris Gregory has been a member of the Anthropology Department at The Australian National University since 1983, and was a visiting professor of Political and Economic Anthropology at the University of Manchester from 2008–15. He has been conducting fieldwork on the economy and culture of rice cultivation in Bastar District, India, periodically since 1982. He lived and worked in Papua New Guinea for three years (1973–75) and Fiji for four years (2008–12).
Trung Dang »
Trung Dinh Dang completed his BA in Economics in Vietnam in 1996, obtained his MA in Southeast Asian Studies at National University of Singapore in 2002 and completed his PhD in Political Science at the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University (ANU), in 2008. Before undertaking his PhD, Trung was a lecturer in Development Economics at Tay Nguyen University of Vietnam. After his PhD, he worked as a postdoctoral fellow and a visiting fellow at ANU from 2009 to 2016. He is currently a lecturer in Vietnamese at the Australian Defence Force School of Languages, Laverton, Victoria.
Regina Ganter »
Professor Regina Ganter is a historian specialising in interactions between Indigenous, Asian and European peoples in Australia. She is the multi-award winning author of The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait (Melbourne University Press, 1994) and Mixed Relations (UWA Publishing, 2006), having published widely in the field of cross-cultural encounters and contributed to a number of broadcasts, museum exhibitions and curriculum materials.
Heather A. Horst »
Heather A. Horst is a Professor in the Department of Media in Communications at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses upon understanding how digital media, technology and other forms of material culture mediate relationships, communication, learning, mobility and our sense of being human. Her co‑authored and co-edited books include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (Berg, 2006); Digital Anthropology (Berg, 2012); and Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice (Sage, 2016).
Rachel Standfield »
Rachel Standfield is a Lecturer at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. She is a historian of Indigenous societies and race relations histories in Australia and New Zealand. Her work explores cross-cultural encounters and the agency of Indigenous peoples as they encountered Europeans on their country, as well as exploring the ways those encounters are encoded in colonial sources and national histories.
John R. Wagner »
John R. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Okanagan.
Jerry K. Jacka »
Jerry K. Jacka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder.
Stephen Loy »
Dr Stephen Loy is lecturer in music at the ANU School of Music, and has convened courses in music theory and aural skills, critical and historical musicology, and popular music studies. He has published on the music of Louis Andriessen and Led Zeppelin.
Julie Rickwood »
Dr Julie Rickwood is a music and performance researcher and practitioner based in Canberra, Australia. Located at The Australian National University, her research has concentrated on popular music and community choirs exploring intersections with music making such as cross-cultural exchange and common ground, gender, identity, place, heritage and the environment.
Samantha Bennett »
Samantha Bennett is a sound recordist, guitarist and Associate Professor in music at The Australian National University. She is the author of two monographs, Modern Records, Maverick Methods and Peepshow, a 33 1/3 series edition (both Bloomsbury Academic). Samantha’s journal articles are published in Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and IASPM@journal.
Alexander Massov »
Alexander Massov is Head of the History Department at St Petersburg State Maritime Technical University and Professorial Chair of the Pacific Research Master’s Program at St Petersburg State University. He specialises in the history of Russian–Australian relations and is the author of numerous articles and monographs in this field. He is co‑author and co-editor of Encounters under the Southern Cross: Two Centuries of Russian-Australian Relations 1807–2007 (2007), and co-editor of From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’ Tales of Australia 1807–1912 (2016).
Marina Pollard »
Marina Pollard is the author of numerous articles on the Russian consuls in Australia. Before settling in Australia in 1990, she was employed by the Geography Department of Moscow State University. She has since worked at the Geographic Information System centre at Griffith University. Her historical research on early consular relations between Russia and Australia led to the publication, with Alexander Massov, of The Russian Consular Service in Australia 1857–1917 (2014).
M.F. Braby »
Associate Professor Michael Braby is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at The Australian National University and a Visiting Scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection. He is recognised internationally for his research on the biodiversity of butterflies—particularly their taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, conservation biology and ecology.
D.C. Franklin »
Dr Donald Franklin is an ecologist and natural historian who has lived and worked in the Australian Monsoon Tropics for more than two decades, being based in Darwin for much of that time, but now living in far north Queensland.
D.E. Bisa »
Ms Deborah Bisa lived in the Northern Territory for 22 years and during that time developed strong connections to the local environment and culture through her study, work, volunteering efforts and publishing achievements. Between 2012 and 2017, she was the collections and facility manager at the Northern Territory Herbarium.
M.R. Williams »
Dr Matthew Williams is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions in Western Australia. He has studied the biology, ecology and taxonomy of Western Australia’s butterflies and day-flying moths for more than 30 years, is actively involved in their conservation and has undertaken several major field expeditions in the Kimberley.
A.A.E. Williams »
Mr Andrew Williams is a Research Associate at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions in Western Australia, having worked for the department in research and nature conservation for the past 37 years. He has conducted three major Lepidoptera field expeditions to the Kimberley, and currently undertakes research on threatened sun-moths and butterflies.
C.L. Bishop »
Dr Carly Bishop is a landscape ecologist with a focus on the application of ecological concepts to biodiversity conservation. She has a particular interest and experience in the integration of quantitative science and spatial data into environmental planning and policy.
R.A.M. Coppen »
Ms Rebecca Coppen is an ecologist with expertise in invertebrate zoology and conducting botanical and Lepidoptera field surveys. Her research interests include the conservation of wetlands, their associated flora and fauna, particularly invertebrates, and the conservation of threatened butterflies and day-flying moths.
Andrey Damaledo »
Andrey Damaledo is a research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from The Australian National University (2016) and an MA in Advanced Development Studies from the University of Queensland (2009), both as an Australian Award scholar. He was the recipient of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Allison Sudradjat Prize. He was also awarded the Ann Bates Prize 2017 for producing the most outstanding PhD thesis on Indonesian studies at ANU. His research focuses on migration, conflict and reconciliation, border issues, development planning and public policy. He is now embarking on a new research to investigate the notions of transnationalism and mobilities in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.
Richard Chopping »
Richard Chopping is a Team Leader in the Deep Earth Imaging Future Science platform of CSIRO.
Susan Corbett »
Susan Corbett is an Associate Professor at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she teaches intellectual property and innovation, e-commerce law and contract law to business students. Susan is a founder member and President of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA).
Jessica Lai »
Jessica Lai is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She researches in intellectual property, especially patent law and the protection of traditional knowledge. Dr Lai is the General Secretary of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA).
Patrik Oskarsson »
Patrik Oskarsson was awarded a PhD in the field of international development by the University of East Anglia in 2011. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Rural and Urban Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. His research focuses on Indian resource politics, environmental governance and industrial development. Much of this work has been carried out in collaboration with civil society groups in India.