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.
2019 CASS PhD Publishing Prize »
2019 prize to assist with publication of a CASS PhD thesis The CASS Humanities & Creative Arts ANU Press Editorial Board is offering a prize valued at $2,500 for the best completed and passed PhD thesis submitted in CASS since 2015. The prize money will be used to meet expenses associated with
Meet the Editor- Malcolm Allbrook from Australian Journal of Biography and History »
Learn about ANU Press' new journal Australian Journal of Biography and History, which includes articles on influential figures Miss Annie Hughston (1859–1943) and Jean Andruana Jimmy (1912–1991). +61 2 6125 7979 News article No Monday, 18 March, 2019- 15:00 Scholarly Information Services
Meet Kim Rubenstein, co-editor of The Court as Archive »
Meet Kim Rubenstein, co-editor of the new ANU Press book The Court as Archive. This collection offers a unique contribution to the conversations about what an archive might be, and addresses what it means for contemporary superior courts of record to not only have duties to documents as a matter of
Launch of ANU Historical Journal II »
After 32 years the ANU Historical Journal (1964 – 87) is returning in a second iteration. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, the first issue of the revived ANUHJ brings together the writing and research of several generations of Australian historians in a single volume. Together, the 21
Kylie Carman-Brown »
Kylie Carman-Brown studied history at Murdoch University and found her way into environmental history writing an Honours thesis about marine water pollution in Cockburn Sound. She worked in environmental planning for many years before returning to university to complete her PhD at The Australian National University.
Stewart Firth »
Stewart Firth is a Research Fellow at Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. He was Professor of Politics at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 1998–2004. He is chair of the Pacific Editorial Board for ANU Press, and he co-teaches an ANU undergraduate course on Pacific politics. His research focuses on the international relations of the Pacific Islands.
Vijay Naidu »
Vijay Naidu has worked for more than 40 years at the University of the South Pacific as tutor, lecturer, reader, professor, head of schools, dean, pro-vice chancellor and acting vice chancellor. For many years he was Professor and Director of Development Studies. He is active in a number of non-government organisations, and has served as consultant to government, non-government organisations and UN agencies.
Launch of 'True Biographies of Nations?' »
Emeritus Professor Tom Griffiths will launch ‘True Biographies of Nations?’ The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography, edited by Karen Fox. The book brings together practitioners from national biographical dictionary projects around the English‑speaking world to reflect on the
Peter Bellwood »
Peter Bellwood (PhD Cambridge 1980) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University in Canberra. His current research is focused on global patterns of human migration throughout human prehistory, but his many years of archaeological fieldwork have been concentrated in Southeast Asia and Oceania. His most recent books include First Islanders (Wiley Blackwell 2017); The Global Prehistory of Human Migration (ed., Wiley Blackwell 2015); First Migrants (Wiley Blackwell 2013); and 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange (co-edited with Eusebio Dizon, Terra Australis 40, 2013). Peter Bellwood was also the recipient of a festschrift volume, New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory (Philip J. Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck [eds]), published as Terra Australis 45 (2017).
Elizabeth Truswell »
Elizabeth Truswell has spent much of her working life as a geoscientist, with an Honours degree from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from Cambridge University. After postdoctoral study in the US, she worked as a palaeontologist and environmental geoscientist with Geoscience Australia. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1985, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia in 2009.
In 2000, she received an Honours in painting from The Australian National University and has held a number of solo exhibitions since then. Her works are held in Australia, the US, France and Italy. She has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University, dividing her time between ongoing scientific research and making art.
James Flexner »
James Flexner is senior lecturer in historical archaeology and heritage at the University of Sydney. James specialises in landscape archaeology and the historical archaeology of Oceania. He has done extensive archaeological fieldwork in the south of Vanuatu, as well as Hawai‘i and Tasmania.
Michelle Arrow »
Michelle Arrow is an Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University. She is the author of three books, including Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945 (2009) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia (2019). In 2014, Michelle won the NSW Premier’s Multimedia History Prize (with Catherine Freyne and Timothy Nicastri) for her radio feature ‘Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships’.
Angela Woollacott »
Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a former president of the Australian Historical Association. Her most recent book, Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (2015), was shortlisted for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards—University of Southern Queensland History Book Award. Her biography Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician who Changed Australia, which has been supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant, will be published by Allen & Unwin in August 2019.
Launch of 'Understanding Oceania' »
ANU–USP Launch of 'Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University' Programme MC: Michelle Tevita-Singh, Alumni Relations Coordinator 3.00pm Garlanding of ANU Vice Chancellor, Professor Brian Schmidt 3
Book Launch: Zhang Peili »
The launch of Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video (edited by Dr Olivier Krischer) features a launch address by Dr Caroline Turner, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts. In 2014, New York-based artist Lois Conner gifted one of pioneering Chinese artist Zhang
Helen Randerson »
Helen Randerson is a Sydney-based researcher whose interests have focused on inner-city areas as places of radical activity, including their industrial and trade union histories.
Devleena Ghosh »
Devleena Ghosh is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.
Victoria Stead »
Victoria Stead is an ARC DECRA senior research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. She is an anthropologist whose research explores local negotiations of postcolonial legacies and processes of change related to land, labour, memory and belonging in the Pacific as well as in rural Australia.
Jon Altman »
Jon Altman is currently a research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and emeritus professor with the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University, where he was the foundation director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) 1990–2010. He has a disciplinary background in economics and anthropology and has worked with Kuninjku-speaking people in West Arnhem Land, north Australia, since 1979.
David Peetz »
David Peetz is Professor of Employment Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and a co‑researcher at the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work) in Canada. He was recently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was once a manager in the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Government’s Department of Industrial Relations and has undertaken work for unions, employers, the International Labor Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and governments of both political persuasions.
Assessment in Legal Education »
This book series offers international views of assessment in legal education in Common Law jurisdictions. Five volumes in the series represent single jurisdictions or clusters of jurisdictions, with each volume containing: Information on assessment practices and cultures within a jurisdiction. A
Alison Bone »
Alison Bone is now retired and a Fellow of the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Trent University Law School. Prior to that she was a part-time Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her field of expertise is primarily assessment, in particular how it is designed and implemented. She was the author of Ensuring successful assessment: A guide for law lecturers (1999). She invented the concept of Law Teacher of the Year in the UK – now copied in other jurisdictions – which rewards law teachers who are excellent in their field.
Paul Maharg »
Paul Maharg is Distinguished Professor of Practice, Legal Education, at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Ontario; and Honorary Professor at The Australian National University College of Law, Canberra, where he was Director of the PEARL Centre (Profession, Education and Regulation in Law). Prior to this he held chairs at Nottingham Trent, Northumbria and Strathclyde University Law Schools. He has published widely in the field of legal education, particularly in international and interdisciplinary educational design, regulation and the use of technology-enhanced learning. He has undertaken consultancies for a range of bodies including law schools and regulators such as the Law Society of Scotland, the Law Society of Hong Kong, the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Law Society of Ireland. He is consultant editor of the European Journal of Law and Technology, and co-editor of two book series, Emerging Legal Education and Digital Games and Learning (both Routledge). He is a member of the BILETA (British and Irish Law Education Technology Association) Executive, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015), a National Teaching Fellow (2011) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Manufactures (2009). He is currently a Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University Faculty of Law and Chinese University of Hong Kong Law School.
Mathieu Leclerc »
Mathieu Leclerc is a lecturer in Pacific archaeology in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology and an honorary lecturer in the Department of Archaeology & Natural History at The Australian National University. His interests centre on the development and application of innovative analytical techniques to archaeological problems. His current research includes chemical and mineralogical analysis of pottery assemblages from Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, as well as a project on organic residue analysis of Lapita pottery.