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.
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
Keiko Tamura »
Keiko Tamura is an honorary researcher in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. She has published widely on Japanese immigrants to Australia, Western expatriate communities in Japan and memories of the Pacific War in Australia and Japan in English and Japanese. She has co-edited the other two books of David Sissons’ writings, Breaking Japanese Diplomatic Codes: David Sissons and D Special Section during the Second World War (2013) and the first volume of Bridging Australia and Japan (2016).
ANU Press in the time of Covid-19 »
James J. Fox The Australian National University Introduction Around the world, the need to access information during the COVID lockdown has enhanced the open-access movement. ANU Press is the world’s largest open-access university press: last year its publications had over 4.6 million downloads,
Laura Rademaker »
Laura Rademaker is a postdoctoral research associate at The Australian National University and author of Found in Translation: Many Meanings on a North Australian Mission (2018).
Tim Rowse »
Tim Rowse holds honorary appointments at Western Sydney University and The Australian National University. His most recent book is Indigenous and other Australians since 1901 (2017) and he is the co-editor of The Difference Identity Makes (2019).
Grazia Scotellaro »
Grazia Scotellaro is Team Leader and Senior Educator for College of Arts and Social Sciences and has a background in Technology Enhanced Language Learning. Grazia has won several awards including a College of Asia and the Pacific for Award for a Program that Enhances Student Learning in 2011 and a Vice-Chancellor Award in 2012 she was also nominated for the OLT Australian Award for University Teaching in 2012 and 2013. Currently her focus is in the support of small enrolment languages and her enthusiasm for technology and teaching and pioneer use of epubs in education is well known at ANU.
Sue O'Connor »
Sue O’Connor is a Distinguished Professor of Archaeology in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. She is a specialist in the archaeology of Island Southeast Asia, Australia and the Pacific, and over the past 40 years has carried out field campaigns and excavations in Indonesia, Timor-Leste, Australia and Papua New Guinea. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and has authored over 200 journal articles. Her co-edited books include East of Wallace’s Line: Studies of Past and Present Maritime Cultures of the Indo-Pacific Region (2000), The Archaeology of the Aru Islands, Eastern Indonesia (2005) and The Archaeology of Sulawesi: Current Research on the Pleistocene to the Historic Period (2018).
Andrew McWilliam »
Andrew McWilliam is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Sciences at Western Sydney University. He is a specialist in the anthropology of Insular Southeast Asia with ethnographic interests in eastern Indonesia and Timor‑Leste as well as Northern Australia. Recent publications include Post-Conflict Social and Economic Recovery in Timor-Leste: Redemptive Legacies (2020) and a co‑edited volume, The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste (2019). He is editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology (TAJA).
Sally Brockwell »
Sally Brockwell is an archaeologist who has worked in northern Australia and Island Southeast Asia. She is a visitor at ANU and a researcher on the Heritage of the Air Project at the University of Canberra.
Michael de Percy »
Dr Michael de Percy FCILT is Senior Lecturer in Political Science in the Canberra School of Politics, Economics, and Society at the University of Canberra. He is a graduate of the Australian National University (PhD) and the Royal Military College Duntroon, and he is a Chartered Fellow (FCILT) of the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport.
Katharine Massam »
Katharine Massam is a historian of religion who teaches at Pilgrim Theological College within the University of Divinity in Melbourne. She has published on monastic theology, the history of education and, mostly widely, on the lived experience of faith and belief.
Zhengdao Ye »
Zhengdao Ye is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, The Australian National University. Her research interests encompass semantics, pragmatics, Chinese linguistics, language of emotion, and translatability. She has lectured and published extensively in these areas. She is the editor of the book The Semantics of Nouns (Oxford University Press, 2017) and the co-editor, with Cliff Goddard, of ‘Happiness’ and ‘Pain’ across Languages and Cultures (John Benjamins, 2016).
Dominic O’Sullivan »
Dominic O’Sullivan is from the Te Rarawa and Ngati Kahu iwi of New Zealand. He is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Charles Sturt University, Australia, and an Adjunct Professor in the Centre for Maori Health Research at the Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand. ‘We Are All Here to Stay’ is his seventh book, the previous one, Indigeneity: A politics of potential - Australia, Fiji and New Zealand, was published in 2017 by Policy Press.
Arthur Stockwin »
Arthur Stockwin took a first degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics at Oxford University, and a doctorate in International Relations at The Australian National University. His PhD thesis was titled ‘The Neutralist Policy of the Japanese Socialist Party’, written under the supervision of David Sissons. He taught in the Department of Political Science at ANU 1964–81, when he was appointed Nissan Professor of Modern Japanese Studies and Director of the newly established Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at Oxford University, where he remained until his retirement in 2003. His publications include The Writings of J.A.A. Stockwin (2012), Rethinking Japan (2017) and Towards Japan: A Personal Journey (2020). He received an Honorary Doctorate from the ANU in 2019.
Anita Mackay »
Dr Anita Mackay has been researching the compliance of Australian prisons with Australia’s international human rights law obligations since 2011. She has been an academic at La Trobe Law School (La Trobe University, Melbourne) since 2016 and is currently a senior lecturer. Dr Mackay was a research assistant on the ‘Applying Human Rights in Closed Environments: A Strategic Framework for Compliance’ Australian Research Council Linkage project (2011-2014) and co-edited Human Rights in Closed Environments with Professor Bronwyn Naylor and Associate Professor Julie Debeljak (2014). Prior to 2011, Dr Mackay worked as a senior legal officer in a variety of government policy areas, including family law and access to justice.
John Butcher »
Dr John Butcher is an ANZSOG research fellow at Curtin University and The Australian National University (ANU). John has worked as an academic researcher, as a policy analyst for government in the areas of disability and housing policy, and as a performance analyst in the Australian National Audit Office (ANAO). He has published extensively on the evolving relationship between government and the not-for-profit sector.
David Gilchrist »
Professor David Gilchrist is an accounting academic and economic historian at the University of Western Australia. He has worked in commerce, government and the not‑for-profit sector in various senior roles. David has served on a number of community and national policy boards and committees, including as chair of Nulsen Disability Services and as a member of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Advisory Board.
Donna Nadjamerrek »
Donna Nadjamerrek is member of the Mok clan and former chairperson of Injalak Arts where she continues to work as a mentor for young artists.
Julie Narndal Gumurdul »
Julie Narndal Gumurdul is a Senior Traditional Owner for the Oenpelli (Gunbalanya) community and a member of the Mandjurlngunj clan.
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Book Launch: Communicating Science »
The launch features five authors telling the story of their country: the USA, Pakistan, Australia, East Africa and Russia. The speakers were selected from the 108 authors who contributed to a book describing how modern science communication emerged in different countries around the world. Five
Toss Gascoigne »
Toss Gascoigne is a visiting fellow at the Centre for Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia.
Bernard Schiele »
Bernard Schiele is a researcher at the Interuniversity Research Centre on Science and Technology, and Professor of Communication at the Faculty of Communication at the University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada.
Joan Leach »
Professor Joan Leach is the Director of the Australian National Centre for Public Awareness of Science, The Australian National University.
Michelle Riedlinger »
Dr Michelle Riedlinger is an associate professor at the University of the Fraser Valley, British Columbia, Canada, and secretary of the PCST Network and her career spans the practical and theoretical sides of science communication.