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.

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal »

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal  is an annual journal that publishes articles, essays and reviews in all areas of feminist and gender history (not limited to any particular region or time period). In addition to publishing research articles on diverse aspects of gender history,  Lilith  is also

Shirley Leitch »

Shirley Leitch is a professorial fellow at the ANU Australian Studies Institute. Her research interests include social media, science–society engagement, and political communication. Previous publications include Rethinking Social Media and Extremism (2022), co-edited with Paul Pickering.

Sally Wheeler »

Sally Wheeler is vice-chancellor of Birkbeck, University of London, and an honorary professor of Law at The Australian National University. Her research interests are corporate behaviour and contractual relationships.

Mark Hilborne »

Dr Mark Hilborne is a senior lecturer in the Defence Studies Department, King's College London, based at the UK Defence Academy. His research focuses on space and strategic stability. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge and has recently published on space surveillance, UK space policy, and China’s space program. In 2014, Dr Hilborne set up the Space Security Research Group to further the understanding of the space domain.

Deane-Peter Baker »

Dr Deane-Peter Baker is Professor of Ethics in the School of Humanities and Social Science at UNSW Canberra and Director of the Military Ethics Research Lab and Innovation Network (MERLIN). He is also a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the King’s College London Centre for Military Ethics. He co-authored the first full-length treatment of the ethics of special operations, The Ethics of Special Ops: Raids, Recoveries, Reconnaissance, and Rebels (2023). Dr Baker was selected by Australia's Special Operations Command to design and develop the command's ethics education and training response.

Madeleine Regan »

Madeleine Regan has undertaken oral history projects with migrant communities, educational organisations, family businesses and local government in South Australia. ‘I buy this piece of ground here’ documents an oral history project that arose from Madeleine’s personal interest and the engagement of the community, and became a major research project lasting almost two decades. Madeleine holds a PhD from Flinders University, Adelaide, and Adjunct Academic status in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University.

Stephen Howes »

Dr Stephen Howes is professor of economics and director of the Development Policy Centre, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University (ANU).

Martin Davies »

Dr Martin Davies is professor of economics at the Washington and Lee University, and has been a visiting lecturer at the University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG) since 2016.

Rohan Fox »

Rohan Fox was a research officer at the Development Policy Centre, ANU, from 2016 to 2021 and a visiting lecturer in the Economics Division, School of Business and Public Policy at UPNG in 2015 and 2020.

Maholopa Laveil »

Maholopa Laveil is a lecturer in the Economics Division, School of Business and Public Policy at UPNG.

Manoj K. Pandey »

Dr Manoj K. Pandey was a lecturer at the Development Policy Centre, ANU, and a visiting lecturer in the Economics Division, School of Business and Public Policy at UPNG from 2016 to 2022.

Kelly Samof »

Kelly Samof was a lecturer in the Economics Division, School of Business and Public Policy at UPNG from 2019 to 2024.

Dek Joe Sum »

Dek Joe Sum was ANU–UPNG partnership coordinator and a visiting lecturer in the Economics Division, School of Business and Public Policy at UPNG from 2018 to 2021.

Sadiah Boonstra »

Sadiah Boonstra is a historian and curator based in Jakarta, and CEO and Founder of CultureLab Consultancy Indonesia.

Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones »

Bronwyn Anne Beech Jones teaches gender and Southeast Asian history at the University of Melbourne.

Katharine McGregor »

Katharine McGregor is Professor of Southeast Asian History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, University of Melbourne.

Ken M.P. Setiawan »

Ken M.P. Setiawan is Senior Lecturer in Indonesian Studies at the Asia Institute, University of Melbourne.

Abdul Wahid »

Abdul Wahid is a lecturer in the Department of History, Universitas Gadjah Mada, Indonesia.

Willem Church »

Willem Church is an anthropologist and researcher in the BirthRites Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig. His research bridges socio-cultural and evolutionary anthropology, examining how social groups reproduce and constitute themselves in relation to cultural identity and collective action. Combining ethnography with computational modelling, he explores the micro-level dynamics of social (re)organisation and its population-level consequences. He completed his doctorate at the University of Lucerne, for which he received the Hank Nelson Memorial Prize and the Frobenius Research Promotion Prize.

Deirdre Howard-Wagner »

Deirdre Howard-Wagner is a sociologist, socio-legal scholar, POLIS@ANU Social Policy, Participation and Inclusion Program Lead, and former Director of Research and Associate Professor at the Centre for Indigenous Policy Research at The Australian National University. Her research focuses on historical and contemporary racial projects in Indigenous policy contexts, Closing the Gap policy, Indigenous care, Indigenous justice, urban Indigenous development, and self-determination.

Staff »

ANU Press comprises a small but dedicated team, working from Menzies Library on The Australian National University’s Acton campus. Its core staff are supported by the ANU Press Advisory Committee and the discipline-specific Editorial Boards. Staff Nathan – Press Manager The Press Manager oversees

Australian Federal Election »

The Australian Federal Election series, which began with the election of 1987, has since the election of 2010 been published by the ANU Press. In this series, leading scholars identify and analyse the changing nature of Australian federal election campaigns. These publications have become an

Sonia Khosa »

Dr Sonia Khosa is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialising in regulatory frameworks and cross-border financial governance. Before her academic career, she served as Assistant General Manager (Law) at the SEBI, where she played a key role in enforcement, regulatory policy and international cooperation. Her work in SEBI’s Office of the Chair and International Affairs involved active engagement with global regulators such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, as well as with IOSCO. Drawing on her experience at the intersection of law, policy and international finance, Dr. Khosa brings unique insight into the dynamics of regulatory collaboration.

Garth Pratten »

Garth Pratten is an Associate Professor specialising in the history of command and military operations in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. He was a member of the team led by Professor David Horner that produced the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations.

Miwa Hirono »

Dr Miwa Hirono is an associate dean at the College of Global Liberal Arts and a professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. Prior to her current appointment, she held a Research Councils UK (RCUK) Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, and taught at The Australian National University, where she was awarded a PhD in International Relations, the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She was also a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.