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.
McComas Taylor »
McComas Taylor teaches at The Australian National University, in Canberra. His research combines contemporary critical theory and Sanskrit narrative literature, primarily in examining questions of knowledge and power: How does discourse shape knowledge, and how does knowledge then feed back into discourse? What makes Sanskrit texts powerful and authoritative? He has published books on the discourse of social division in the Pañcatantra and the contemporary oral performance of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. He has recently published a translation, The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes, with an accompanying audiobook, both available from ANU Press.
Hon S. Chan »
Hon S. Chan, PhD, is the president of the HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College, Hong Kong. His research interests relate mainly to China’s cadre personnel system and civil service system, and to its use of performance management.
Tsai-tsu Su »
Tsai-tsu Su, PhD, is a professor and director at the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, National Taiwan University. She has worked with various government agencies in Taiwan and was the president of the Taiwanese Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs.
Alastair Greig »
Alastair Greig is an emeritus fellow in sociology at The Australian National University. He previously edited and contributed new chapters to the reissue of Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, published by ANU Press in 2015. He is also the author of The Australian Way of Life (2013) and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (1995), as well as the co-author of Challenging Global Inequality (2007) and Inequality in Australia (2003). He has received numerous national and local teaching and community awards.
ANU Press Music »
ANU Press Music is Australia’s first open-access university music press and record label, providing a platform for artists and researchers working in musicology, performance, improvisation, intercultural and popular music. Our artists produce scholastic books, recordings and multimedia projects,
R. Wally Johnson »
R. Wally Johnson is an honorary associate professor in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. He worked for many years for Geoscience Australia, first as a research scientist and later in senior management roles. Most of his research career has focused on the volcanology of Papua New Guinea. Johnson is an honorary life member of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and an honorary fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
Neville A. Threlfall »
Neville A. Threlfall grew up on farms in Western Australia and graduated in history and French at the University of Western Australia. He then studied theology for the ministry of the Methodist Church and, through the Methodist Overseas Mission, served in the Rabaul region in 1961–80. In addition to pastoral ministry he worked in the production of literature in English and several Papua New Guinea languages. Threlfall was a visiting fellow in 1981–82 at The Australian National University, researching the history of Rabaul, and then returned to parish ministry in Western Australia and later in New South Wales. He received the Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) in 2020 for his pastoral ministry, Bible translation and historical writings.
Grant Douglas »
Grant Douglas, a former long-time employee of the New South Wales government, has managed various ICT projects and programs. This experience exposed him to many of the factors that can make these types of projects, and their governance frameworks, so challenging. After leaving the sector, Douglas completed a PhD at The Australian National University.
Larry Sitsky »
Larry Sitsky, professor emeritus at The Australian National University, is an internationally known composer, pianist, scholar, and teacher. His books are fundamental reference works on subjects such as Australian piano music, the 20th-century avant-garde, the piano music of Anton Rubinstein, the early 20th-century Russian avant-garde, and the classical reproducing piano roll.
Aboriginal History Monographs »
Aboriginal History Monographs publishes studies in the broad field of Australian Indigenous History. We are especially interested in works that extend the field, providing new insights based on innovative sources or approaches. We welcome works by Indigenous authors and works that emphasise
Call for Book Proposals – ECR Prize »
ANU College of Law is delighted to announce the ANU Press ECR Prize in Legal Scholarship, awarded annually to the most outstanding and insightful manuscript submitted to ANU Press in any area of law and legal studies by an early career researcher. The prizewinner will receive AU$2,500, have costs
Anthony Ware »
Anthony Ware is an associate professor of international and community development at Deakin University and a former director of the Australia Myanmar Institute. His research, much of which involves Myanmar, focuses on humanitarian and development approaches in conflict-affected situations. He has a particular interest in conflict sensitivity, ‘do no harm’, everyday peace, peacebuilding, and countering violent and hateful extremism with community-led programming. He is the lead author of Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict (2018).
Monique Skidmore »
Monique Skidmore is an honorary professor at Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute. She is an award- and grant-winning Burmese political and medical anthropologist and an expert media commentator. She has published seven books on Myanmar, including Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (2004). She convened the Myanmar/Burma Update conference at The Australian National University for eight years.
Anna Kent »
Anna Kent holds a PhD in history from Deakin University and an MA from the University of Melbourne. Anna began her career working with international students sponsored by the Australian government and continues to work in scholarships and international education in research, policy and practice. Anna researches and publishes on international education, international development and foreign policy, and the intersections of these topics.
Meet the Author: Gordon Peake »
Gordon Peake is a writer, podcaster and consultant with extensive experience working at the coalface of international development. His first book, Beloved Land, was an award-winning account of life in Timor-Leste. His latest title Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville is out now. 1
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Social Sciences »
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LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures »
LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures Series publishes works on languages and cultures, showcasing the research profile of the sector. Volumes may take the form of monographs or edited collections, and cover one or more languages, in areas such as pedagogy, languages and technology, language
Jérôme Doyon »
Jérôme Doyon is a Junior Professor at the Centre for International Relations (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris. His research focuses on Chinese politics with a specific interest in the inner working of the Party-State apparatus, as well as elite politics, political youth organizations, and the management of ethnoreligious minorities.
Chloé Froissart »
Chloé Froissart is a Professor of political science at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) in Paris and former Director of the Sino-French Centre in Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, state-society relations and the evolution of the Chinese regime. She has a specific interest in authoritarian citizenship, which she investigates through mobilisations, public policies and forms of participation and representation, with a particular focus on labour and environmental politics.
Agenda- A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2021. Agenda is a refereed, ECONLIT-indexed and RePEc-listed journal of the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University. Launched in 1994, Agenda provides a forum for debate on public policy, mainly (but not exclusively) in
Karen Sullivan »
Dr Karen Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, a fun and accessible introduction to metaphor combinations with numerous examples from Australian politicians, and has written two other books and numerous papers. Her research examines figurative language, word meanings, and how meanings change over time.
Glenda Harward-Nalder »
Dr Glenda Harward-Nalder is a descendant of the Ngugi People of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island), Quandamooka Nation. She holds a PhD (Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology), MA (Griffith University), and BA (University of Queensland) with additional undergraduate and graduate qualifications in Cultural Studies, Literature, Visual Arts, Digital Media Production, and Education. As a member of the Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders Council, and the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, she has led language retrieval and revitalisation projects, with the support of community linguists and language institutes. She has consulted to Education Queensland and the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority on Australian Languages curriculum design and implementation.
Robert J. Foster »
Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has published widely on globalisation, nation making, corporations, commercial media and material culture. His books include Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea (2002); Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea (2008); and Art, Artifact, Commodity: Perspectives on the P.G.T. Black Collection (2017, co-edited with Kathryn H. Leacock).
Cameo Dalley »
Cameo Dalley is a settler descendant and anthropologist. Her multidisciplinary research has explored Indigenous identities, belonging in contemporary Australia, native title, pastoral economies, and contemporary agribusiness. She maintains research relationships with Lardil, Yangkaal and Kaiadilt peoples in the Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria, and groups in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her first book What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community (2021) was published by Berghahn. She has held academic appointments at The Australian National University, Deakin University, and the University of Melbourne, where she is a senior lecturer in the Indigenous studies program. She is a board member of the Journal of Australian Studies.