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.
Peter Woodley »
Peter Woodley was born in Dubbo and studied economics and history at The Australian National University (ANU) before a career in government, mainly working in health care policy. He returned to the ANU to complete his PhD in the School of History. He has taught there and at the University of New England, and now works in the ANU National Centre of Biography.
Mitchell Browne »
Mitchell Browne is a linguist primarily working on the description and documentation of Warlmanpa and Warumungu, in collaboration with community members in Tennant Creek. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University and Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of Western Australia.
James J. Fox »
James J. Fox is Emeritus Professor at The Australian National University where he has been based since 1975. He was Director of the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies until his retirement in 2006. Professor Fox has been studying oral composition in parallelism since his first fieldwork on the Island of Rote in 1965–66. Stimulated by Professor Roman Jakobson, whom he met at Harvard University, he has done considerable comparative research on semantic parallelism and continues to work with master poets from the Timor area.
John Kinder »
John Kinder is Emeritus Professor of Italian at the University of Western Australia. From early research on the Italian language and dialects in migrant communities in Australia and New Zealand, he published on a wide range of topics in language teaching and learning, the external history of Italian and, most recently, the presence of Italians and Italian in colonial Australia. In retirement, he plans to learn at least two new languages.
Nicola Fraschini »
Nicola Fraschini is a senior lecturer at the University of Melbourne Asia Institute, where he is the coordinator of the Korean Studies programme. Previously he worked at Sogang University (Seoul) and at the University of Western Australia (Perth). He is co-author of Mission Accomplished: Korean 1 & 2 (2023) and co-editor of Advancing Language Research through Q Methodology (2024).
Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (CIPR) »
The CIPR Monograph series (formerly CAEPR) focuses primarily on Australian Indigenous affairs. It publishes monographs and edited volumes that report on and analyse the results of primary research undertaken by CIPR staff, visitors and associates, and the proceedings of CIPR workshops and
About ANU Press »
What We Do ANU Press is the first and largest open-access university press in the world. Our authors publish peer-reviewed research on a broad range of topics including Asia and Pacific studies, Australian politics, humanities, arts, Indigenous studies and science. Launched in 2004, ANU Press
Successful applicants »
ANU Press would like to congratulate the following applicants: Publication Subsidy Fund – Round Three, 2022 Name of applicant Book title Publication notes Wally Johnson Return to Volcano Town Published by ANU Press Julien Louys Quaternary Palaeontology and Archaeology of Sumatra Published by ANU
Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (CIPR) »
The Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (CIPR) was established at The Australian National University in April 1990. The principal objective of CIPR (formerly CAEPR) is to undertake high-quality, independent research that will assist in furthering the social and economic development and
Centre for Indigenous Policy Research (CIPR) »
The CIPR Monograph series (formerly CAEPR) focuses primarily on Australian Indigenous affairs. It publishes monographs and edited volumes that report on and analyse the results of primary research, and the proceedings of CIPR workshops and conferences. Established in 1991, the series provides a
Erik Eklund »
Erik Eklund is an award-winning historian and Adjunct Professor of History at The Australian National University. He was Professor of History and Head of School at Monash University from 2008 to 2013 and the Keith Cameron Visiting Professor in Australian History at University College Dublin, Ireland, from 2015 to 2016. He is currently working as the Deputy Director of Navy Research at the Sea Power Centre in Canberra.
Editorial boards »
ANU Press has a number of editorial boards, specialising in disciplines that align with the University’s strategic direction. If you wish to submit a proposal to ANU Press, you will need to know which editorial board is the most appropriate one to submit your work to. If you are not sure which
Lindy Allen »
Lindy Allen is an independent scholar, curator and material culture and cultural heritage specialist. With over 40 years of experience in the museum sector, including as senior curator of Northern Australian Collections at Museums Victoria, Melbourne, from 1989 to 2018, she has worked extensively and developed collaborative cross-cultural research projects with many Indigenous communities across Australia.
Andrew Carr »
Andrew Carr is Senior Lecturer in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. His research focuses on strategy and Australian defence policy. He has published in outlets such as Survival, Parameters, the Journal of Strategic Studies, Australian Foreign Affairs, International Theory, The Washington Quarterly and Comparative Strategy. He is the author or editor of five books with Melbourne University Press, Oxford University Press and Georgetown University Press.
Joan Beaumont »
Joan Beaumont is Professor Emerita in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. She has published extensively on Australia in the two world wars and the Great Depression, including the multiple award-winning Broken Nation: Australians in the Great War (2013).
Marlin Tolla »
Marlin Tolla is a researcher at the Research Center for Archaeometry, Research Organization for Archaeology, Language, and Literature, National Research and Innovation Agency, and the Sulawesi Center for Archaeological Research. She is based in Jayapura, Papua.
Laura McLauchlan »
Laura McLauchlan is a sociocultural anthropologist based at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. Her work focuses on the interpersonal, particularly on connection across difference (and the limits of such openness), within environmental and social movements. With expertise in feminist more-than-human ethnography, as well as training in relational neurobiological approaches, her work attends to the interplay of material, biological and cultural aspects of how, when and why we open to one another.
With her non-fiction work employing narrative, illustration, as well as attention to embodied aspects of interpersonal relations, Dregs: Love and Monsters in Small Town New Zealand is her first publication to venture into the realms of the fictional, giving space to the unspoken and unconscious aspects of the region that grew her up.
Wilco van den Heuvel »
Wilco van den Heuvel studied general linguistics at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and accomplished a PhD thesis on the Biak language in 2006. Following a few years in which he focused on Romani linguistics, he participated in a project at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam investigating the Awyu-Dumut languages, which led to a number of articles and a publication on the Aghu language in 2016. Nowadays, the author combines teaching Dutch as a second language with research on Papuan and Austronesian languages.
Paul Memmott »
Paul Memmott is a trans-disciplinary researcher (architect/anthropologist) and the Director of the Aboriginal Environments Research Collaborative at the University of Queensland. His field of research encompasses the cross-cultural study of Indigenous peoples with their natural and built environments, including Aboriginal housing and settlement design, access to institutional architecture, Indigenous constructs of place and cultural landscapes, vernacular architecture, native title, social planning in Indigenous communities, homelessness and family violence.
Maria Nugent »
Maria Nugent is an historian with the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History at The Australian National University. Her work spans colonial history and post-colonial memory. Her recent publications include Mistress of Everything: Queen Victoria in Indigenous Worlds (2018, co-edited with Sarah Carter) and Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums (2021, co-edited with Gaye Sculthorpe and Howard Morphy).
Michael Aird »
Michael Aird is the director of the University of Queensland Anthropology Museum and an Australian Research Council (ARC) research fellow. He has worked in Aboriginal arts and cultural heritage since 1985, maintaining an interest in documenting aspects of urban Aboriginal history and culture.
Chantal Knowles »
Chantal Knowles is a museum professional who has worked in the United Kingdom, Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand, and has developed permanent galleries at National Museums Scotland and the Queensland Museum. She is Head of Human History at Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland War Memorial Museum. Her research focuses on the role of objects and collections in creating and sustaining historical narratives.
Jonathan Richards »
Jonathan Richards is a professional historian who mostly works in the Queensland State Archives (QSA) undertaking research for academics, community groups, and government and Indigenous people throughout the state, especially northern Queensland. He is a specialist researcher in records about death, frontier violence and the experiences of Indigenous people under Queensland’s criminal justice system.
Law »
The Law editorial board of ANU Press welcomes thoughtful full-length monographs and edited collections (around 80,000–100,000 words), as well as shortform books (around 30,000–40,000 words), in all areas of law and legal studies. We welcome proposals from scholars based anywhere in the world. We
LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures »
The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) is a professional association of academics working within the Australian university sector. Its mission is to promote the value of tertiary language studies and to foster a strong research and publication culture within the