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.
Tim Denham »
Tim Denham undertook multidisciplinary investigations of early plant exploitation and cultivation at Kuk Swamp for his PhD research at ANU from 1997 to 2004. In particular, he introduced to the project recent advances in archaeobotany, allowing the identification of basic food crops of the New Guinea/Pacific region like yams, taro and bananas. He was also an advocate of more integrated site sampling procedures.
Pamela Swadling »
Pamela Swadling worked as an archaeologist in PNG initially at UPNG, then at the Institute of PNG Studies. From 1978 to 1999, she was Curator of Prehistory at the National Museum. With Director Soroi Eoe and Jack Golson, she put Kuk on its long journey to becoming a World Heritage Site. She also initiated a series of draft booklets about the findings at Kuk, out of which there began to emerge in the early 2000s the Kuk book that we have today.
John Muke »
John Muke is the first Papua New Guinean to be awarded a PhD in archaeology. He returned home with it from University of Cambridge in early 1993 to a lectureship in the Department of Anthropology at UPNG. Born and raised in the Minj area of the middle Wahgi Valley, less than 50 km east of Mount Hagen, he played an important role in negotiating on behalf of the project at crucial phases in its history—when the Kuk Station was closed down at the end of 1990, and when some years later the locals repossessed the station land. He also worked closely with Tim Denham on the nomination of Kuk as a World Heritage Site.
Robbie Robertson »
Robbie Robertson is a former Professor of Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific (Suva), and Professor and Head of Arts & Social Sciences at James Cook University. He is currently Professor and Dean of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities at Swinburne University of Technology. He has also taught at La Trobe University, The Australian National University and the University of Otago.
He has published widely on Fiji and globalisation, his most recent work being ‘Globalization thinking and the Past’, in Tamar Hodos (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (2017).
Anna-Karina Hermkens »
Anna-Karina Hermkens is an academic (lecturer, writer and researcher) who specialises in cultural anthropology, ethnographic art, museum collections and gender studies. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196). She is currently working at the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, and is a visiting research fellow in Professor Nicholas Thomas’s Pacific Presences Project, at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Anna-Karina’s aim is to explore and establish an ‘anthropology-in-art’ practice which fuses academic theory and research on gender and art with her ceramics and painting.
Katherine Lepani »
Katherine Lepani is an anthropologist with a research focus on gender and health. She lives in Papua New Guinea and is currently working as gender equity specialist for the PNG Governance Facility, a joint initiative between the Governments of PNG and Australia. She was recently a senior research associate with Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196), 2010–2015. Lepani’s book Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands (2012), based on her PhD thesis, is the first full-length ethnography that examines the interface between global and local understandings of gender, sexuality and HIV in a Melanesian cultural context.
Hilde Coffé »
Hilde Coffé is an Associate Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on public opinion, political behaviour and political representation. She has written numerous articles that have been published in leading political science and sociology journals, and has been a visiting fellow at different institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, the University of Sydney and the Åbo Akademi University.
Nic Maclellan »
Nic Maclellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific islands. As a broadcaster and correspondent, he has contributed to Islands Business magazine, Radio Australia, The Guardian, Inside Story, The Contemporary Pacific and other regional media and journals.
He has written widely on the environment, development, decolonisation and demilitarisation in the Pacific, and was awarded the 2015 ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Sector’ award by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID).
He is co-author of other books on Pacific affairs, including La France dans le Pacifique: de Bougainville à Moruroa (Editions La Découverte, Paris), After Moruroa: France in the South Pacific (Ocean Press, New York and Melbourne) and Kirisimasi (PCRC, Suva).
ANU Press Archive 1965–1991 »
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John G. Reid »
John G. Reid is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Senior Fellow of the Gorsebrook Research Institute. He is a former co‑editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, and is the author of Viola Florence Barnes, 1885–1979: A Historian’s Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Mel Gurtov »
Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Oregon, USA. He has written numerous books and articles on East Asia and US foreign policy and security issues. He is Senior Editor of Asian Perspective.
Peter Van Ness »
Peter Van Ness is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations, The Australian National University. He has published books on Chinese support for revolution during the Maoist period, market reforms in socialist societies, the human rights debate in Asia, and Asian responses to the Bush Doctrine.
Pierre-Yves Le Meur »
Pierre-Yves Le Meur is a Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
Cameron Moore »
Cameron Moore is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong. He is also an Associate Professor at The Australian National University. He wrote this book while a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, NSW. He has previously been the Academic Master of Robb College at UNE. His publications include the book ADF on the Beat: A Legal Analysis of Offshore Enforcement by the ADF (2004) and other articles and chapters on the Australian Defence Force and maritime security. Between 1996 and 2003, Cameron was a Royal Australian Navy Legal Officer. His legal experience includes service at sea as well as advising at the strategic level on a number of ADF deployments, ongoing fisheries and border protection operations and the Tampa incident. Cameron is still an active Navy reservist. He had a brief deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. He completed a PhD thesis through The Australian National University in 2015 on the Australian Defence Force and the Executive Power.
Michel Naepels »
Michel Naepels is Director of Studies (Full Professor) at the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Director of Research (Senior Researcher) at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is developing a political anthropology of violence and its deferred effects, based on fieldwork in New Caledonia and Katanga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Maggie Brady »
Dr Maggie Brady is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University, where she was formerly an ARC Research Fellow. A social anthropologist who has worked with Aboriginal people in many different regions of Australia, she has long-term research interests in Indigenous alcohol and other drug use, alcohol policy, and the social history of drinking and temperance. She has produced diverse publications on these topics for both academic and community-based audiences, including Heavy metal: the social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press,1992), The grog book: strengthening Indigenous community action on alcohol (Dept of Human Services and Health,1998), and First taste: how Indigenous Australians learned about grog (Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation, 2008).
Katherine A. Daniell »
Dr Katherine A. Daniell, BEng(Civil)(Hons)/BA (Adel.), PhD (ANU/AgroParisTech) MIEAust, is a Senior Lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Her work focuses on collaborative approaches to policy and action for sustainable development. She has worked in Europe and the Asia-Pacific on projects related to water governance, risk management, sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, research-policy collaboration and international science, technology and innovation cooperation. Katherine has previously held appointments in the ANU Centre for Policy Innovation, the HC Coombs Policy Forum, the ANU Centre for European Studies and IRSTEA in Montpellier, France.
Adrian Kay »
Professor Adrian Kay, MA (Oxon), PhD (Nottingham), has worked in a series of senior roles at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He has previously held academic appointments in the UK and at Griffith University, Queensland. Prior to an academic career, Adrian was a member of the UK Government’s European Fast Stream for several years and spent a year working for the European Commission in Brussels. His major research interests are in the broad areas of comparative and transnational public policy, with a particular empirical focus on health.
Miranda Stewart »
Miranda Stewart is Professor and Director of the Tax and Transfer Policy Institute at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, and Professor at the University of Melbourne Law School. Miranda researches across a wide range of tax and fiscal law and policy issues, with a focus on economic development for individuals and business, system resilience and social justice.
Jean-Jacques Delannoy »
Professor Jean-Jacques Delannoy (ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is a geomorphologist and founding Director of EDYTEM, an interdisciplinary research centre at the Université Savoie Mont Blanc (France). He has undertaken field research in Australia, France, Papua New Guinea, Russia, South Africa and Spain. He is lead geomorphologist in the Chauvet Cave (France) research project, and has developed co-ordinated 3-D laser modelling methods to inform geomorphological-archaeological approaches to rock art research. His latest book is the encyclopaedic Géographie Physique: Aspects de Dynamique du Géosystème Terrestre, co-authored with Philip Deline and René Lhénaff (De Boeck Superieur, 2016).
Jean-Michel Geneste »
Professor Jean-Michel Geneste, archaeologist, has been principle conservator of Lascaux and Director of the Centre National de la Préhistoire in Périgueux, and currently directs archaeological research at Chauvet Cave (France). He has undertaken archaeological fieldwork relating to rock art in Australia, British Colombia (Canada), France and Siberia (Russia). His latest book is the multi-volume Monographie de la Grotte Chauvet-Pont d’Arc (Éditions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme), Volume 1 of which is co-edited with Jean-Jacques Delannoy and due to be published in 2017.
Marie McAuliffe »
Marie McAuliffe is the head of the Migration Policy Research Division at the International Organization for Migration (IOM) in Geneva, and has almost two decades of experience in migration research, policy and practice. She is a senior fellow at the Global Migration Centre at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and a visiting scholar at the Population Institute at Hacettepe University in Ankara. Marie co-convenes IOM’s Migration Research Leaders’ Syndicate in support of the 2018 Global Compact for Migration. She is currently co-editing IOM’s next World Migration Report (with Martin Ruhs) and is on the editorial board of the scientific journal International Migration. For three years (2012–2014), Marie directed the Australian irregular migration research program. In late 2014, she was awarded a Sir Roland Wilson scholarship to complete her doctoral research at the ANU School of Demography. Marie is on leave from the Department of Immigration and Border Protection.
Khalid Koser »
Khalid Koser MBE is Extraordinary Professor in Conflict, Peace and Security in the Faculty of Humanities and Sciences at Maastricht University. He has published over 100 books, articles and chapters on refugees, migration and asylum, including as co-editor of IOM’s World Migration Report in 2010. He is editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies. Dr Koser is also Non-Resident Fellow at the Lowy Institute for Foreign Policy, Associate Fellow at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, Associate Fellow at Chatham House, Research Associate at the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, and co-chair of the World Economic Forum Global Future Council on Migration.
Patrick McConvell »
Patrick McConvell is a linguistic anthropologist with special interests in kinship and linguistic prehistory. He has taught anthropology at Charles Darwin and Griffith universities, and now is an adjunct associate professor at The Australian National University and Western Sydney University. He has worked with Australian Aboriginal people especially in the north-central region of the Northern Territory, and the Kimberley and Pilbara of Western Australia. A recent publication is Southern Anthropology – A History of Fison and Howitt’s Kamilaroi and Kurnai (Palgrave-MacMillan, 2015) with historian Helen Gardner.
Piers Kelly »
Piers Kelly is a linguistic anthropologist at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena, Germany. His present research explores graphic codes in small scale communities: their origins, evolution, pragmatic principles and relationships to social organisation. He has previously worked as an etymologist of Aboriginal words in Australian English for the Australian National Dictionary Centre, and as a linguist with the National Commission on Indigenous People, Philippines.