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.
Lia Kent »
Dr Lia Kent is a Fellow in the School of Regulation and Global Governance, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.
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Campbell Macknight »
Campbell Macknight is an honorary professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University, and professor emeritus of the University of Tasmania. He has been interested in the past of South Sulawesi in Indonesia for more than 50 years and has published extensively on Bugis philology and the early history of the area. He is also known for his study of the trepang fishermen from Makassar who visited the north Australian coast in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Muhlis Hadrawi »
Muhlis Hadrawi is a graduate of Hasanuddin University, University of Indonesia and National University of Malaysia. He is currently head of the Department of Regional Literature in the Faculty of Cultural Sciences at Hasanuddin University. He has studied the early Malay contacts with Sulawesi and published on Bugis philology and cultural matters.
Mukhlis Paeni »
Mukhlis Paeni, an historian and anthropologist, is a graduate of Hasanuddin University and Gadjah Mada University. He has contributed in many ways to cultural affairs in South Sulawesi, in addition to his extensive publications. He was largely responsible for the manuscript microfilming project of the National Archives in Makassar, the restoration of the Somba Opu fortress in Makassar and inscribing La Galigo manuscripts on the UNESCO Memory of the World register. He has also served as Director General of the National Archives in Jakarta, as chair of the Association of Indonesian Historians and in many other public and professional roles. He is still active in the Oral Tradition Studies Postgraduate Program at the University of Indonesia.
Sean Ulm »
Sean Ulm is Distinguished Professor of Archaeology at James Cook University and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London, an Honorary Research Fellow of the Queensland Museum and a Fellow of the Cairns Institute. Sean’s research focuses on persistent problems in the archaeology of northern Australia and the western Pacific where understanding the relationships between environmental change and cultural change using advanced studies of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental sequences are central to constructions of the human past. His priority has been to develop new tools to investigate and articulate co-variability and co-development of human and natural systems. His work has been funded by the Australian Research Council, Australian Institute of Nuclear Sciences and Engineering, Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, Australian Learning and Teaching Council and French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique. His publications include more than 100 articles on the archaeology of Australia and 5 books. Sean has conducted research in Australia, Europe, Honduras, Chile, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. He is a former President of the Australian Archaeological Association Inc., is Editor of Australian Archaeology and Queensland Archaeological Research, and sits on the editorial boards of The Journal of Island and Coastal Archaeology and Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society.
Claire Cronin »
Dr Claire Cronin is a Sessional Lecturer in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.
Tamaki Mihic »
Tamaki Mihic is a Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the University of Sydney. Her research interests are in contemporary Japanese literature, translation studies and comparative literature. She is also a NAATI-certified Japanese to English translator.
Len Richardson »
Len Richardson was, in the early 1970s, a PhD student at The Australian National University (ANU) where his work on the labour movement in Wollongong during the Great Depression was supervised by Bob Gollan. He came to ANU from the Grey Valley district of New Zealand’s South Island and was educated at Marist Brothers in Greymouth and the University of Canterbury. He taught New Zealand and Australian history at the University of Canterbury and his research interests continue to focus on the Australasian labour movements.
Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak »
Anni Doyle Wawrzyńczak has lived and worked in most Australian cities and throughout Asia where her practice during the 1980s and 1990s included performance, filmmaking and community involvement. Over the last two decades in Canberra she has curated more than 40 exhibitions. She is the Australian lead and co-curator of the project Curating Canberra Brasilia: un/planned a/symmetries. How Local Art Made Australia’s National Capital is her first book.
ANU Press Music »
A music label and academic publisher to support excellent Australian music and research. We hope this can become a repository for great music that would otherwise be buried and forgotten – Kim Cunio, Head of ANU School of Music, Chair of ANU Press Music ANU Press Music is Australia’s first open
Robert Porter »
Robert Porter has worked in corporate roles, mainly in the mining sector. He is currently involved in researching and writing business histories.
Robert is also the author of Paul Hasluck: A Political Biography (UWA Press, 1993) and Below the Sands: The Companies that Formed Iluka Resources (UWA Publishing, 2017). Robert holds a BA (Hons), MSc (Econ) and PhD. He lives in Melbourne.
Denghua Zhang »
Denghua Zhang is a research fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University (ANU). He has been working on the Asia-Pacific region, especially the Pacific, for 18 years. Prior to joining ANU, he worked as a diplomat for 10 years. His research focuses largely on Chinese foreign policy, foreign aid and China in the Pacific. He has published extensively, including recently with journals such as The Pacific Review, Third World Quarterly, The Round Table and Asian Journal of Political Science.
Jane Golley »
Jane Golley is an economist focused on a range of Chinese transition and development issues. She is the Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW).
Linda Jaivin »
Linda Jaivin is the author of eleven books — including the China memoir The Monkey and the Dragon — an essayist, translator, co-editor with Geremie R. Barmé of the anthology of translation New Ghosts Old Dreams: Chinese Rebel Voices, and editorial consultant at the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU.
Meili Niu »
Meili Niu is Professor in the School of Government, Sun Yat-sen University, and the Deputy Director of the Center for Chinese Public Administration Research.
Shujiro Urata »
Shujiro Urata is Professor of Economics at the Graduate School Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University; Faculty Fellow at the Research Institute of Economy, Trade and Industry (RIETI); Specially Appointed Fellow at the Japan Centre for Economic Research (JCER); Senior Research Advisor, Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA); and Visiting Researcher, Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI). Professor Urata received his bachelor’s degree in economics from Keio University, and his master’s and PhD in economics from Stanford University. He is a former Research Associate at the Brookings Institution and an Economist at the World Bank.
Juliana de Nooy »
Juliana de Nooy completed a doctorate at the Université de Paris 7 and is a Senior Lecturer in French in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, Australia. Her research focuses on questions of identity and difference in both cultural studies and language learning. She is the author of Derrida, Kristeva, and the Dividing Line (Taylor & Francis, 1998), Twins in Contemporary Literature and Culture (Palgrave, 2005), and (with Barbara Hanna) Learning Language and Culture via Public Internet Discussion Forums (Palgrave, 2009).
Alessandro Rippa »
Alessandro Rippa is an anthropologist working on infrastructure development and cross-border trade in Yunnan and Xinjiang. He is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, where he is part of the China Made project funded by the Henry Luce Foundation. He is one of the editors of the Routledge Handbook of Asian Borderlands (Routledge 2018).
Andrea Enrico Pia »
Andrea E. Pia is a Fellow in the Anthropology of China at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research examines Yunannese street-level officials and rural residents as they push the boundaries of cooperation and antagonism over the task of maintaining access to water in the Chinese periphery.
2020 CASS PhD Publishing Prize »
2020 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 $3,000 for the best completed and passed PhD thesis submitted in CASS since 2016. The prize money will be used to meet expenses associated with
Russell Barlow »
Russell Barlow is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. He holds a PhD in Linguistics from the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (2018).
Tessa Morris-Suzuki »
Tessa Morris-Suzuki is Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University, a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities, and recipient of the 2013 Fukuoka Prize (Academic) for contributions to Asian studies. From 2013 to 2018, she held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship. Her books include Re-inventing Japan: Time, Space, Nation (1997); The Past Within Us: Media, Memory, History (2005); Exodus to North Korea: Shadows from Japan’s Cold War (2007); and Japan’s Living Politics: Grassroots Action and the Crises of Democracy (2020).
Natalie Köhle »
Natalie Köhle is a historian of medicine, culture and the body, with a special interest in the comparative history of bodily fluids. She is working on a book about the history of humours in China and their ties to Āyurvedic and Greco-Islamic medical traditions, and on a project on the history of donkey hide gelatine. She is currently a research assistant professor in the Department of History at Hong Kong Baptist University.
Shigehisa Kuriyama »
Shigehisa Kuriyama is Reischauer Institute Professor of Cultural History at Harvard University. His recent publications include, No Pain No Gain and the History of Presence, Representations 146, no. 1 (2019): 91–111.