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.
Milton Cameron »
Dr. Milton Cameron is a Canberra-based writer, heritage consultant and artist. A former practising architect, he has designed buildings in Australia, England and New Zealand, and has lectured at the University of Canberra. Milton has been admitted to the degrees of Doctor of Philosophy (Architecture), University of New South Wales, Master of Philosophy (Visual Arts), The Australian National University, and Bachelor of Architecture, University of Auckland. He is currently a Visiting Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University College of Medicine, Biology and Environment.
Daniel Oakman »
Daniel Oakman is a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia. He has published widely on post-1945 Australia, the transnational experience of international scholars and the history of overseas aid. He is currently researching a biography of the cyclist and politician Sir Hubert Opperman and the history of competitive cycling in Australia.
John Power »
After completing his first degree in political science in the University of Melbourne, John Power undertook graduate studies at Harvard University. He then took up teaching positions at the University of Sydney and the Canberra College of Advanced Education, before returning to the University of Melbourne in 1977. Upon his transfer to The Australian National University in 1993 to set up the Australian National Internships Program, he was made a Professor Emeritus of his first University.
He has published widely on local, state and commonwealth executive and legislative branches. His current central concern is to do with the governance roles that heads of state could perform in an Australian republic.
Daryl Tarte »
Daryl Tarte is the fourth generation of his family to live in Fiji. After education in Melbourne, he worked for a number of years on the family estates on Taveuni. He became an executive in the Fiji sugar industry in 1968 before retiring in 1999 to devote more time to travel, corporate activities and writing. He has contributed to many Fijian magazines and is author of three historical novels about the Pacific, one biography of the late President of Fiji, one coffee table book about Fiji and co-editor of 20th Century Fiji: People Who Shaped the Nation.
Daryl has been happily married to Jacqueline for 57 years. They live in Suva and spend as much time as possible with the fifth and sixth generations of the family. He is an avid golfer and gardener.
Penelope Mathew »
Penelope Mathew holds the Freilich Foundation Chair. Her primary research interests are international law, human rights law, refugee law and feminist theory.
Prior to her appointment at the Freilich Foundation, Professor Mathew was a visiting professor and interim Director of the Program in Refugee and Asylum Law at the University of Michigan Law School, where she convened the 5th Michigan Colloquium on Challenges in International Refugee Law. From 2006 – 2008, she was a legal adviser to the ACT Human Rights Commission, where she conducted the Human Rights audit of the ACT’s Correctional Facilities. Professor Mathew has also taught at ANU College of Law and Melbourne Law School, and she is a past editor-in-chief of the Australian Yearbook of International Law.
Prof. Mathew’s career has been devoted to human rights, particularly the rights of refugees. In 2001, Prof. Mathew advised the UN High Commissioner for Refugees’ regional office for Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the South Pacific concerning the problems with Australian legislation underpinning the so-called ‘Pacific Solution’. She was also a participant in the third expert panel on refugee law organised by UNHCR during 2001 as part of the ‘global consultations’ on the 1951 Convention relating to the Status of Refugees. She has written numerous submissions to parliamentary inquiries, particularly those relating to changes to Australia’s immigration laws and their impact on refugees and asylum-seekers. Her evidence to the Australian Senate’s Legal and Constitutional Committee concerning the Migration Amendment (Designated Unauthorised Arrivals) Bill 2006, a bill which sought to extend aspects of the Pacific Solution, was cited extensively by the Committee when it recommended that the bill should not become law. Prof. Mathew has also provided academic opinions to lawyers working on refugee cases before Australian courts, including the test cases for East Timorese asylum-seekers. She is a non-judicial member of the International Association of Refugee Law Judges and a member of its human rights working group. She was one of the faculty members, along with Professor James Hathaway and Rodger Haines QC, for the advanced refugee law workshop organised by the International Association of Refugee Law Judges in Auckland, New Zealand, in 2002. During the 1990s she worked in a variety of capacities with the Jesuit Refugee Service and the Victorian Refugee Advice and Casework Service (now the Refugee and Immigration Legal Centre). In 2008, she was presented with an International Women’s Day award by the ACT government for her outstanding contribution to human rights and social justice.
Martin Slama »
Martin Slama is a postdoctoral researcher at the Institute for Social Anthropology, Austrian Academy of Sciences. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in Indonesia (Java, Bali, Sulawesi, the Moluccas, West Papua) and was guest researcher at The Australian National University in Canberra, State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah in Jakarta and Gajah Mada University in Yogyakarta. His main research topics include the Hadhrami diaspora, Islam in Indonesia, and the uses of social media and mobile communication technologies in Southeast Asian contexts. Recent publications: ‘Marriage as Crisis: Revisiting a Major Dispute among Hadhramis in Indonesia’, in Cambridge Anthropology 32 (2) (2014); ‘From Wali Songo to Wali Pitu: The Travelling of Islamic Saint Veneration to Bali’, in Between Harmony and Discrimination: Negotiating Religious Identities within Majority-Minority Relationships in Bali and Lombok, B. Hauser-Schäublin and D. Harnish (eds) (2014); ‘Hadhrami Moderns: Recurrent Dynamics as Historical Rhymes of Indonesia’s Reformist Islamic Organization Al-Irsyad’, in Dynamics of Religion in Southeast Asia: Magic and Modernity, V. Gottowik (ed.) (2014).
Jenny Munro »
Jenny Munro is a research fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University. She is a cultural anthropologist who works in Papua and other regions of eastern Indonesia. Her doctoral research followed a group of indigenous university students from the central highlands of Papua to North Sulawesi and back home again to examine the social, cultural and political impacts of schooling. Since completing her PhD in 2010, Jenny has conducted five collaborative ethnographic research projects in the domains of HIV/AIDS, sexuality, education and alcohol-related violence. Her research reflects a broader interest in understanding emerging and enduring inequalities that are reshaping daily life in Papua. She has published articles on racial stigma and premarital pregnancy experiences (Journal of Youth Studies), the politics of HIV research and policy formation (The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology), and indigenous experiences of the value of education in highlands Papua (Indonesia). She is currently writing about HIV, gender and mobility in Papua.
Juliana Ng »
Juliana Ng is Professor of Accounting in the Business School at University of Western Australia. She is currently a member of the editorial board of The International Journal of Accounting. Professor Ng has secured research grants, including funding from the Australia Research Council. Professor Ng is an Adjunct Fellow of ANCAAR.
Vic Lipski »
Vic Lipski is a professional editor and he has undertaken editorial work over several years for the Institute for Governance and Policy Studies at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Justin Pritchard »
Justin Pritchard is an Honours graduate in Middle East Studies and research assistant with the Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) at The Australian National University.
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt »
Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt is an Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Public Policy, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. Kuntala’s research is on the interface of community and gender with the environment and natural resource management in developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region. Kuntala has published widely on resource and related areas. Some of her publications include Dancing with the River: People and Life on the Chars of South Asia (co‑authored, Yale University Press, 2013); The Coal Nation: Histories, Ecologies and Politics of Coal in India (Ashgate, 2014); Gendering the Field: Towards Sustainable Livelihoods for Mining Communities (edited, ANU Press, 2011); and Women Miners in Developing Countries: Pit Women and Others (co-edited, Ashgate, 2006).
Mike Rickard »
Dr Mike Rickard was a staff member of the Department of Geology from 1963 – 1997 and served as Head of Department for seven years. He graduated Bsc and PhD from Imperial College London in 1957 and has specialised in mapping the structure of mountain chains in Ireland, Canada, Norway, and southern South America. He also mapped volcanic rocks for the Geological Survey of Fiji. He taught Structural Geology and Tectonics and has supervised field work in south eastern and central Australia. After retirement he has taught courses in Earth Sciences.
Alf Hagger »
Alf Hagger was an Honorary Research Associate of the School of Economics at the University of Tasmania, and a member of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. He wrote 13 books. He was personally acquainted with L.F. Giblin, D.B. Copland and Roland Wilson.
Alf Hagger passed away in October 2010.
Maria Taylor »
Maria Taylor is an award-winning journalist and former documentary film-maker whose work over more than three decades in both Australia and the United States has focused on sustainable resource management and environmental issues. The book builds on research conducted for a PhD (communications) at the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science of The Australian National University. Her multi-disciplinary investigation of the public record and the input of science, politics, economics, journalism and contemporary mass media has revealed for the first time how and why Australia buried a once good understanding of global warming and climate change — to arrive after 25 years at the confusion and stalemate we are still in today. The book is written for both a general audience and interested scholars. Taylor lives and works in regional NSW near the national capital, where she publishes a monthly community newspaper The District Bulletin.
Paul Wyrwoll »
Paul Wyrwoll is an environmental and energy economist at The Australian National University. His main research focus is management of the environmental impacts of hydropower dams. He also works on climate change mitigation, water security, and biodiversity conservation. Paul is Managing Editor of the Global Water Forum.
David Allendes »
David Allendes is an environmental management professional whose principal focus is the water sector. He holds a Master of Environmental Management and Development and a Master of Diplomacy from The Australian National University. David is an Associate Editor of the Global Water Forum and contributes to the teaching of courses on water resources management at The Australian National University.
Chris White »
Chris White is an environmental economist at URS, London where his main area is working with the public and private sector on valuing the services provided by the environment in order to improve decision making and account for impacts on natural capital. Chris is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, The Australian National University and Managing Editor of the Global Water Forum.
Heather Keith »
Heather Keith is a Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society in the field of forest ecology. Her research encompasses measurement of the carbon cycle, development of methods for carbon accounting, the role of natural forests in the global carbon cycle, and implications for greenhouse science policy.
Brendan Mackey »
Brendan Mackey is a professor of environmental science in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. His research, teaching and outreach are in the fields of environmental biogeography, ecosystem dynamics, and sustainability. Prof Mackey serves on the Science Advisory Panel to the Australian Government’s Climate Commission. He is a member of the IUCN Council, serves as co-Chair of the Council of Earth Charter International, and is a member of the editorial board of Pacific Conservation Biology. Brendan as published over 120 academic articles including two ANU Press books on “Green Carbon”.
Matthew Gray »
Matthew Gray is Director and Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University, and Director of Research in the College of Arts and Social Science at The Australian National University.
Colin D. Butler »
Professor Colin Butler is based at the University of Canberra, and is also a Visiting Fellow at NCEPH at the ANU. In 1989, he and his late wife, Susan co-founded BODHI (Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight). In 2014, he co-founded Health-Earth (www.canberra.edu.au/centres/ceraph/H-earth). Colin has published widely, including on health, sustainability, justice, conflict and engaged Buddhism. He was a co-ordinating lead author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. In 2009, he was named one of ‘100 doctors for the planet’ by the French Environmental Health Association. Butler edited Climate Change and Global Health (CABI, 2014). His collaboration with Tony McMichael started in 1993.
Anthony G. Capon »
Professor Anthony G. Capon directs the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University, based in Kuala Lumpur. Tony is a public health physician and an authority on environmental health and health promotion. Since 2008, he has been working with the International Council for Science to develop the global interdisciplinary science programme on health and well-being in the changing urban environment using systems approaches. Tony has held National Health and Medical Research Council and World Health Organization fellowships, as well as leadership roles with the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the International Society for Urban Health.
Jane Dixon »
Jane Dixon is Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University. Her research takes place at the intersection of sociology and public health and focuses on transformations within national food systems and the sociocultural determinants of health transitions. She has advised numerous bodies on adopting a food system perspective, including the International Union on Health Promotion and Education and the Western Pacific Regional Office of WHO. Recent books include When Culture Impacts Health (Elsevier) and Weight of Modernity (Springer). She is currently researching for a new book, The Culinary Footprint (Bloomsbury).
Malcolm Allbrook »
Malcolm Allbrook was born in Uganda and spent his childhood in East Africa, England and the United States before moving to Western Australia with his family as a twelve-year-old. He initially studied Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia and then worked with the Western Australian government, the Kimberley Land Council and the Yamatji Marlpa Land and Sea Council. In 2005 he started a PhD at Griffith University and was awarded his doctorate in history in 2009. After working in Western Australia as a freelance historian and exhibition curator, he moved to Canberra where he was employed in the School of History, The Australian National University (ANU). He is currently Managing Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the National Centre of Biography at ANU.
Dr Anita Strezova »
Dr Anita Strezova is a Byzantine scholar specialising in all aspects of Byzantine history, theology and art history. She has completed a Bachelor in Theology (I Class Honours), Honours Degree of Master of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History and Curatorship at The Australian National University. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Art History, The Australian National University and Research Consultant for various organisations.