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.
Biography »
In response to the current popularity of biography, the Biography Series was established by the National Centre of Biography in 2008 (originally known as ANU.Lives). It aims to publish lively, engaging and provocative biographies and memoirs and nurture best practice in biographical scholarship.
Terra Australis »
Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia — lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse
Debby Chan »
Debby Chan is a lecturer in the Australian Centre on China in the World and Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Her research interests concern China’s economic statecraft and public diplomacy. Her work explains economic setbacks to Belt and Road projects in the host countries. Debby obtained her doctorate in politics from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She was previously a visiting fellow at the Department of Public and International Affairs at the City University of Hong Kong and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at HKU.
Tamara Jacka »
Tamara Jacka is an Emeritus Professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. A feminist social anthropologist, her main research interests are in gender, rural–urban migration and social change in contemporary China. She is the author of Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (2006), which won the Francis L.K. Hsu prize for best book in East Asian Anthropology. More recent publications include Women, Gender and Rural Development in China (co‑edited with Sally Sargeson, 2011) and Contemporary China: Society and Social Change (co-authored with Andrew B. Kipnis and Sally Sargeson, 2013).
Publications »
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Annie Luman Ren »
Annie Luman Ren is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World and a co-editor of The China Story. Her research focuses on the literary world of the Bannerman in eighteenth century China.
Moshe Rapaport »
Moshe Rapaport is a geographer specialising in environments and societies of Oceania and the Pacific Northwest. He has a PhD from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa.
Jennifer Curtin »
Jennifer Curtin is Professor of Politics and Inaugural Director of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland–Waipapa Taumata Rau. She researches New Zealand and Australian politics, gender politics, policy analysis, and political leadership. She leads the Gender Responsive Analysis and Budgeting project (available from: www.grab-nz.ac.nz) and her research features regularly in a range of media outlets.
Lara Greaves »
Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi/Pākehā/Tararā) is an Associate Professor in Politics at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, and a Senior Research Fellow in statistics at the University of Auckland–Waipapa Taumata Rau. Lara teaches and researches in the areas of New Zealand, Māori, and Indigenous politics. She is also working in the areas of Māori/Indigenous data sovereignty, electoral law, history, and political participation.
Australia and the World »
The Australia and the World series was established by the ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) to promote the study of Australia, share research and bring an Australian perspective to comparative, transnational and international projects. The Editorial Board includes members from a wide range of
Asian Studies »
The editorial board of the Asian Studies Series interprets Asia broadly in terms of region. To date, our titles cover such disciplines as contemporary art, international relations, history, literature, politics, and crime. We are particularly interested in monographs or edited collections that make
Matthew Zagor »
Matthew Zagor is an Associate Professor at the ANU College of Law and Director of The Australian National University’s Law Reform and Social Justice program.
Publication subsidy fund »
ANU provides publication subsidies for eligible authors whose work has been accepted for publication by ANU Press. Subsidies are awarded by the Publication Subsidy Committee, which is chaired by ANU University Librarian Roxanne Missingham. The Committee meets three times a year to consider the
Colin Filer »
Colin Filer has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has undertaken research on a variety of resource management questions in Melanesia, and especially in Papua New Guinea, over the past 40 years. He is currently an Honorary Professor with the Resources, Environment and Development Group in the Crawford School of Public Policy, ANU.
Asia-Pacific Security Studies »
The Asia-Pacific Security Studies series offers an opportunity to publish works on security-related subject matter, especially as it pertains to the history and future prospects of security in the Asia Pacific region. We are interested in publishing books on military history, Australian defence
John Quiggin »
John Quiggin is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. He is a prominent research economist and commentator on Australian and international economic policy. He has produced over 2000 publications, including ten books and over 300 refereed journal articles, in fields including decision theory, environmental economics and industrial organisation. He is an active contributor to Australian public debate in a wide range of traditional and social media.
Marinella Caruso »
Marinella Caruso is Cassamarca senior lecturer in the Italian Studies programme of the University of Western Australia. Her primary research interests include Italian linguistics, the acquisition of Italian L2 and innovative teaching practices. She has published on language contact, Italian in a migratory context, second language education and policy and on the scholarship of teaching and learning (online feedback, adaptive learning and flipped learning). Her current projects are related to Italian language learner motivation, engagement and well-being using Q methodology and other approaches. She is also part of university-wide Communities of Practice fostering active learning and inclusive and accessible teaching.
Diane Barwick »
Diane Elizabeth Barwick (1938–1986), née MacEachern, anthropologist and historian, was born in Vancouver, Canada. She completed a BA (Hons) in anthropology at the University of British Columbia in 1959. She moved to Australia in 1960 to study for a PhD at The Australian National University. Her PhD thesis, ‘A Little More than Kin’ (1964)—a study of Aboriginal communities in Victoria—led to the writing of Rebellion at Coranderrk, as Diane realised that one could not understand the present without knowing the past. She worked as a research fellow in anthropology at ANU (1965–72) and was a founding member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal Studies (later the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies). A co-founder of the journal Aboriginal History, she was its editor from 1978 to 1982. A member of of the Aboriginal Treaty Committee, Diane was the author of over 50 articles and co-editor of three books. Extensive memorial articles and a bibliography of her work appear in Aboriginal History, vol. 11 (1987) and vol. 12 (1988).
Aboriginal History Journal »
Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and
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Anthropology in Pacific and Asian Studies »
The Monographs in Anthropology series offers an opportunity to publish innovative works of theory and ethnography from the Asia-Pacific region. To date, our titles have included studies on such topics as self-determination, mobility, temporality, ritual performance, music, connections to land,
Brad Underhill »
Brad Underhill lectures at Deakin University. He is a past recipient of the Hank Nelson Memorial Award for best PhD internationally on any aspect of Papua New Guinea’s history, a Deakin University Vice-Chancellor’s Prize for academic excellence, and the Bowater Trust medal for best all-round undergraduate student at Deakin University. He has published widely on Papua New Guinea.
Mary Eagle »
Mary Eagle is the author of a number of books about Australian art. Born in 1944, her BA degree was in History as well as Fine Arts and her PhD thesis was a history based on situations represented visually both by Indigenous Australians and European-Australians. Greg Dening’s ethnographic teaching at the University of Melbourne was the key for her approach to art criticism, art history, and curatorship. After eighteen years as a curator at the National Gallery of Australia, seven as the Head of Australian Art, the same influence led her to join The Australian National University’s Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and Humanities Research Centre.
Dylan Gaffney »
Dylan Gaffney is Associate Professor of Palaeolithic Archaeology in the School of Archaeology, University of Oxford. He is also a Fellow at Hertford College, Lecturer at St Hugh’s College, and Honorary Lecturer in the Archaeology Programme at the University of Otago.