Authors & editors
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Ligang Song »
Ligang Song is Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
Yixiao Zhou »
Yixiao Zhou is Associate Professor of Economics and Director of China Economy Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
Wen-Hsuan Tsai »
Wen-Hsuan Tsai is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Political Science, Academia Sinica (Taiwan). His main research is on Chinese political development and authoritarian regimes. Tsai has published many articles in The China Journal, The China Quarterly, Journal of Contemporary China, China Review, China Information, China Perspectives, Journal of East Asian Studies, Problems of Post-Communism, Asian Survey, Critical Asian Studies, Modern China and other journals in English and Chinese. In addition to publishing The Inner Court of Communist China: Elites and Their Bureaucratic Institutions in an Authoritarian System (1921–2022) (2025), he also has another monograph entitled A Tight Grip: State Power and Control in Modern China (2025).
Barbara E. Hanna »
Barbara E. Hanna PhD is French major convenor and senior lecturer in French in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, where she also supervises doctoral research in second language teaching and learning.
Luke Taylor »
Luke Taylor is an anthropologist who has worked in western Arnhem Land since 1981, mainly with the Aboriginal artists of the region, including Peter Marralwanga. Luke was a Senior Curator at the National Museum of Australia (1991–2000) and Director of Research and then Deputy Principal of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (2000–2013). He has published widely on Aboriginal art and contributed to numerous exhibitions of western Arnhem Land bark paintings.
Marian Sawer »
Marian Sawer AO is an emeritus professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
Jill Sheppard »
Jill Sheppard is an associate professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
John Warhurst »
John Warhurst AO is an emeritus professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
Jennifer Jones »
Jennifer Jones is Associate Professor in History at La Trobe University. She is a non-Indigenous woman whose research interests include Indigenous Australian history, rural and religious history, and histories of childhood and education.
Timothy W Jones »
Timothy W Jones is Professor in History at La Trobe University. His research focuses on problems relating to equality, social cohesion and wellbeing in gender, sexuality and religion in the modern West, particularly in the UK and Australia.
Nadia Rhook »
Nadia Rhook is Research Fellow at La Trobe University. Her research focuses on Chinese and South Asian migration to southeast Australia, and her interests include social and legal negotiations of race, whiteness and settler identity, and medical history.
Charles Fahey »
Charles Fahey taught history at La Trobe University until his retirement in 2018. He has written on the history of Victorian goldmining, Victorian agriculture and working in Melbourne.
Patrick Guinness »
Patrick Guinness (MPhil, University of Sydney; PhD, The Australian National University) helped develop an indigenous language and culture program in a school serving the Maututu Nakanai of West New Britain. He was an agricultural field officer in the island’s initial years of oil palm development. He has been a university lecturer and researcher for over four decades, first in Indonesia, and then in Australia, where he convened the Development Studies program at The Australian National University for many years and taught and supervised students in international development, urban anthropology, comparative religion and indigenous worldviews.
Alison L Booth »
Alison L Booth is Emeritus Professor of Economics at The Australian National University. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia, a Fellow of the Econometric Society, a Founding Fellow of the European Association of Labour Economists, and recipient of the Distinguished Fellow Award from the Economic Society of Australia. While her research interests broadly span labour economics and experimental economics, she is also interested in cultural influences on economic preferences and their impact on economic outcomes, the economics of gender, and imperfect competition and the labour market. Booth is also a distinguished novelist whose literary works often reflect her academic expertise, exploring themes of social and economic dynamics through richly developed characters and intricate plots.
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Albert L. Refiti »
Albert L. Refiti is the leader in critical studies research on spatial design and architectural environments in the Pacific, with a focus on material culture and ethnography on the subject. He is also a Professor of Art, Design and Material Culture at Auckland University of Technology.
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul »
A.-Chr. Engels-Schwarzpaul is a Professor in Spatial Design at Auckland University of Technology. Her research focuses on crosscultural and transcultural relations in art, architecture and design, performance, philosophy, and education.
Lana Lopesi »
Lana Lopesi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Indigenous, Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of Oregon.
Billie Lythberg »
Billie Lythberg is a Senior Lecturer in Management and International Business at the University of Auckland. She is known for transdisciplinary work that advances Māori and Pacific kaupapa through heterogeneous research philosophies and methodologies.
Arielle Walker »
Arielle Walker is an artist, writer and maker, and current post-doctoral Fellow with RAU Textiles Research in the Toi Ataata me Hoa Hoa School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology.
Emily Parr »
Emily Parr is a moving-image artist, post-doctoral Fellow with the AUT Vā Moana Research Centre and a Lecturer in the School of Art and Design at Auckland University of Technology.
International Review of Environmental History »
International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It encourages scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations, and time-scales. The journal embraces
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Carmel O’Shannessy »
Carmel O’Shannessy is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at The Australian National University. Her research is in language contact and acquisition, including the emergence of Light Warlpiri, an Australian mixed language, and the language development of First Nations children in Central Australia.