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.
Bettina Beer »
Bettina Beer received her PhD in anthropology from the University of Hamburg and habilitated in 2001 with a project on ‘Body concepts, interethnic relations and theories of racism’. She has conducted long‑term fieldwork in the Philippines and PNG, and researched on cultural diversity in the German‑speaking Europe. She received a Heisenberg fellowship from the German Research Foundation and became professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Heidelberg in 2006. Since 2008 Bettina Beer has been professor of social and cultural anthropology at the University of Lucerne. She is co-editor of the journal Sociologus.
Christopher Findlay »
Christopher Findlay is Honorary Professor in the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Somkiat Tangkitvanich »
Somkiat Tangkitvanich is President of the Thailand Development Research Institute.
Barry Jones »
Jones, Barry Owen (1932– ). Australian politician, writer and lawyer, born in Geelong. Educated at Melbourne University, he was a public servant, high school teacher, television and radio performer, university lecturer and lawyer before serving as a Labor MP in the Victorian Parliament 1972–77 and the Australian House of Representatives 1977–98. He took a leading role in reviving the Australian film industry, abolishing the death penalty in Australia, and was the first politician to raise public awareness of global warming, the ‘post-industrial’ society, the IT revolution, biotechnology, the rise of ‘the Third Age’ and the need to preserve Antarctica as a wilderness. In the Hawke Government, he was Minister for Science 1983–90, Prices and Consumer Affairs 1987, Small Business 1987–90 and Customs 1988–90. He became a member of the Executive Board of UNESCO, Paris 1991–95 and National President of the Australian Labor Party 1992–2000, 2005–06. He was Deputy Chairman of the Constitutional Convention 1998. His books include Decades of Decision 1860– (1965), Joseph II (1968), Age of Apocalypse (1975), and he edited The Penalty is Death (1968). Sleepers, Wake!: Technology and the Future of Work was published by Oxford University Press in 1982, became a bestseller and has been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Swedish and braille. The fourth edition was published in 1995. Knowledge Courage Leadership, a collection of speeches and essays, appeared in 2016.
He received a DSc for his services to science in 1988 and a DLitt in 1993 for his work on information theory. Elected FTSE (1992), FAHA (1993), FAA (1996) and FASSA (2003), he is the only person to have become a Fellow of four of Australia’s five learned Academies. Awarded an AO in 1993, named as one of Australia’s 100 ‘living national treasures’ in 1997, he was elected a Visiting Fellow Commoner of Trinity College, Cambridge in 1999. His autobiography, A Thinking Reed, was published in 2006 and The Shock of Recognition, about music and literature, in 2016. In 2014 he received an AC for services ‘as a leading intellectual in Australian public life’. What Is to Be Done was published by Scribe in 2020.
John Braithwaite »
John Braithwaite is a leading criminologist, Emeritus and founder of the School of Regulation and Global Governance (RegNet) at The Australian National University (johnbraithwaite.com).
Geoffrey Clark »
Geoffrey Clark is an archaeologist who works on islands in the Pacific and Indian oceans. His research interests include the timing and impact of inital colonisation, how monumental structures reveal ancient political systems and the impact of climate events on the development of insular societies.
Mirani Litster »
Mirani Litster is an archaeologist with a background in Australian and Indian Ocean archaeology. Her research interests include the archaeology of early globalisation, Australian frontier conflict studies and the archaeology of cross-cultural encounters.
Meet the Author: Adele Chynoweth »
Adele Chynoweth was a lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University. She was a secondary school teacher before training as a theatre director and completing a PhD in contemporary Australian drama. She was curator of the National Museum of Australia’s
Ryuji Hattori »
Ryuji Hattori is professor at Chuo University, Japan. He holds a bachelor’s degree from Kyoto University Faculty of Law and a doctorate in political science from Kobe University. His main publications include Understanding History in Asia: What Diplomatic Documents Reveal (Tokyo: Japan Publish Industry Foundation for Culture, 2019); Eisaku Satō, Japanese Prime Minister, 1964-72: Okinawa, Foreign Relations, Domestic Politics and the Nobel Prize (London: Routledge, 2021); China-Japan Rapprochement and the United States: In the Wake of Nixon’s Visit to Beijing (London: Routledge, 2022); Japan and the Origins of the Asia-Pacific Order: Masayoshi Ohira’s Diplomacy and Philosophy (Singapore: Springer, 2022).
Stephan Frühling »
Stephan Frühling is Associate Dean, Partnerships and Engagement in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University, where he researches and teaches in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre. He was the Fulbright professional fellow in Australia–US Alliance Studies at Georgetown University, Washington, in 2017, ‘Partner across the Globe’ research fellow in the research division of the NATO Defense College in Rome in 2015, and a member of the Australian Government’s external panel of experts on the development of the 2016 Defence White Paper.
Andrew O’Neil »
Andrew O’Neil is Acting Dean of the Graduate Research School and Professor of Political Science at Griffith University. Prior to entering academia full-time, and after completing his PhD, he worked as a Commonwealth public servant with Australia’s Department of Defence. He is a member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts and is a former member of the National Consultative Committee on National Security Issues.
Hilary Howes »
Hilary Howes is a historian of science based in the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University. Her research addresses the German-speaking tradition within anthropology and archaeology in Australia and the Pacific region. Her current project, ‘Skulls for the Tsar: Indigenous Human Remains in Russian Collections’, offers the first detailed investigation of the acquisition of Indigenous human remains from Australia and the Pacific by the Russian Empire during the long 19th century.
Matthew Spriggs »
Matthew Spriggs is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University and an Honorary Curator of Archaeology at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, Vanuatu, where he now lives. His interests include Pacific and Island Southeast Asian archaeology, archaeological theory and the history of archaeology. His current ARC Project (with Lynette Russell of Monash University) is ‘Aboriginal Involvement in the Early History of Archaeology’ (2021–23).
Tristen Jones »
Tristen Jones is an archaeologist and curator based in the Department of Archaeology, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. Her research on Australian Indigenous and Pacific material culture collections focuses on the materiality and agency of objects, their relevance to contemporary Indigenous communities, and how collections can transform disciplinary histories. She was previously a research associate on Matthew Spriggs’ ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: A Hidden History’ at The Australian National University.
Meet the Author: Doug Munro »
Doug Munro is a Wellington-based biographer and historian, and an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Queensland. In an earlier incarnation he was a historian of the Pacific Islands with specialisms in trade and traders, indentured labour, and the role of Island pastors. Doug has
Adele Chynoweth »
Adele Chynoweth was a lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University. She was a secondary school teacher before training as a theatre director and completing a PhD in contemporary Australian drama. She was curator of the National Museum of Australia’s touring exhibition ‘Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions’. She is the recipient of the 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach. In 2020 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to public history.
Peter Dean »
Professor Peter Dean is the University of Western Australia’s first Chair of Defence Studies and the inaugural director of the University of Western Australia Defence and Security Institute. He has previously worked at The Australian National University and was the founding editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series. He has authored a number of books including MacArthur’s Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942–45 and The Architect of Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, and edited books on Australia in the Second World War, Australia’s Defence policy and the ANZUS alliance.
Tristan Moss »
Dr Tristan Moss is a senior lecturer at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. He is also a Fulbright Scholar and winner of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, working on a history of Australian space policy. He has previously worked at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and the Australian War Memorial. He is the author of Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75, and co-editor of Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity Away from the Battlefields.
Lekshmi N. Pillai »
Dr Lekshmi N. Pillai is Professor of Accounting and Executive Dean, School of Business and Public Policy, University of Papua New Guinea.
Jittipat Poonkham »
Dr Jittipat Poonkham (PhD, Aberystwyth University; MPhil, Oxford University) is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of International Studies Program in the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University. He is the co-editor of International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand: Theory and Sub-fields (Routledge, 2019).
Karen Fox »
Dr Karen Fox is a senior research fellow in the National Centre of Biography and a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History, The Australian National University. A historian of Australia and New Zealand, she has taught Australian and imperial history and biography at ANU. She is fascinated by the question of how a life comes to be acclaimed as significant, or to be celebrated, and how these processes have differed in different places and times, as well as by the changing ways Australians and New Zealanders have understood their place in the world.
Meet the Author: Honae Cuffe »
Honae Cuffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Newcastle, and has worked in both the academic and public history sector. Honae has published widely on issues of history, contemporary policy and academic research practices. The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's
Darren Byler »
Darren Byler is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Brij V. Lal »
Brij Lal, who died on Christmas Day 2021, was an enormously prolific historian of the Pacific Islands, especially of his birthplace Fiji. The 18 ANU Press titles below – variously written, edited or contributed to by Professor Lal – constitute a fraction of his published output. Not only was he an outstanding academic and journalist, commenting perceptively and knowledgeably on every Fiji election since 1982, as well as on the shifting waves of Fiji politics, he also acted as one of the three commissioners who drew up a draft of the new Fiji constitution in 1997 and, in addition, wrote about the global Indian diaspora, especially in the West Indies. Considered persona non grata in Fiji in recent years, he wore his expulsion as a tribute to his dedication to liberal democracy, and greatly valued his Australian citizenship.
Daniel J Fleming »
Dr Daniel J Fleming is Group Manager – Ethics and Formation for St Vincent’s Health Australia. He holds a PhD in moral philosophy, and is widely published in moral philosophy, theological ethics, moral education and health care ethics.