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.
David J Carter »
Dr David J Carter is an academic lawyer and National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. His expertise is in the legal, regulatory and governance challenges involved in the delivery of safe, effective and sustainable health care services.
Clive Moore »
Clive Moore is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. In 2005, he received a Cross of Solomon Islands for historical work on Malaita Island. He was inaugural president of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies (2006–10) and was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2010. He has written extensively on Australian South Sea Islanders, New Guinea and Solomon Islands. His recent major publications are Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia, 1893–1978 (2013), Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s (2017), and Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire (2019).
Meet the Author: 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
Pamela Burton »
Pamela Burton is a Canberra lawyer and writer. She founded her own law firm in 1976 and later practised as a barrister at the Canberra Bar.
Meredith Edwards »
Meredith Edwards AM, FASSA, FIPAA is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Tom Therik »
Dr Tom Therik was born in Atambua on Timor and grew up speaking a dialect of the Tetun language spoken in Wehali. The challenge for him was not in doing field research as an ‘outsider’ in some remote village but rather in mastering the ritual language of his local ‘instructors’ to enable him to understand what the people of Wehali regard as the ‘true knowledge of the ancestors’. His book offers a fundamental understanding of some of the important traditions of Timor.
Human Ecology Review »
Human Ecology Review is a semi-annual journal that publishes peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on all aspects of human–environment interactions (Research in Human Ecology). The journal also publishes essays, discussion papers, dialogue, and commentary on special topics relevant to human
Claire E. F. Wright »
Claire E. F. Wright (PhD) is an economic and business historian at the University of Technology Sydney. She is interested in knowledge, markets and business strategy, and is working on the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership (ARC DECRA 2022–25). She serves on the executive of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, and tweets @hereorclaire.
Aidan Craney »
Aidan Craney is a research fellow at La Trobe University on the ARC Discovery Project ‘The future of the Pacific: youth leadership and civic engagement’. A development scholar/practitioner, anthropologist and social worker, Aidan has worked with development initiatives throughout the Pacific region and advised youth activists in Australia and the Pacific on thinking and working politically. His research looks at youth civic engagement and livelihoods in Oceania, and the practical and philosophical challenges for aid donors in supporting locally led development practices.
Henrike Frye »
Henrike Frye studied linguistics and philosophy at the universities of Erfurt and Pavia. She did her doctorate at the University of Cologne within the project ‘Documenting child language: The Qaqet of Papua New Guinea’, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s Lichtenberg program. She has worked on documenting language and cultural knowledge in Yucatec Maya (Mexico) and Qaqet (PNG). Her areas of research include language documentation and description, language acquisition, anthropological linguistics and their intersection with local biological knowledge.
Paul Pickering »
Paul Pickering is Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He has published on transnational history, biography, social movements, music and politics, re-enactment as a methodology, industrial heritage, and the use of Linked Data in historical enquiry.
Australia and the World »
The Australia and the World series was established by the ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) to promote the study of Australia, share research and bring an Australian perspective to comparative, transnational and international projects. Scholarly Information Services
Matthew Cunningham »
Matthew Cunningham is an author and historian based in the Greater Wellington region of Aotearoa New Zealand. His research specialities include Crown–Māori relations, environmental history and the history of right-wing movements and ideologies. He has written several oral histories, peer-reviewed journal articles, commissioned research reports and public history pieces. This is his first research monograph.
Matthew is also an award-winning children’s author. His first children’s book, Abigail and the birth of the Sun, won the NZCYA Best Picture Books Award for 2020 and was shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers Best Children’s Book Award 2020.
Leila Kouatly »
Leila Kouatly is an Arabic lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies – Middle-East and Central Asia (CAIS) at The Australian National University. Before joining CAIS in 2017, Leila was employed as an educational developer by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, where she contributed to the development of the online version of several CAIS Arabic courses. Leila’s research interests include second language acquisition and technology in language teaching.
Daishi Adams »
Daishi Adams is an IT technician contracted by The Australian National University to contribute to ANU Press Languages imprint. In 2016, Daishi worked on the ANU Press title Reading Embraced by Australia, the first volume of an advanced Japanese language comprehension series. Daishi’s interests lie in the use of new technologies in the education field.
Tobias Schwoerer »
Tobias Schwoerer is a senior lecturer in the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Lucerne, Switzerland.
Eric Meadows »
Eric Meadows is an Honorary Fellow in the Contemporary Histories Research Group at Deakin University. He has published on the history of international education in Australia, on the impact of Australia’s immigration policies on its relations with India and on public diplomacy and education. He was formerly Pro-Vice Chancellor (International) at Deakin University, Deputy Principal (International Programs) at the University of Melbourne and started his career as an Australian diplomat in New Delhi and then Tel Aviv.
Matthew Galway »
Matthew Galway is Lecturer of Chinese History at The Australian National University. He is the author of The Emergence of Global Maoism: China’s Red Evangelism and the Cambodian Communist Movement, 1949–1979 (2022) and has published articles in The Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, China Information, Asian Ethnicity and Left History.
Gabrielle Meagher »
Gabrielle Meagher is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University and affiliated professor in the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University. She collaborates on research exploring the political economy of social services and the organisation of paid care work in social service systems.
Adam Stebbing »
Adam Stebbing is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University. His research focuses on understanding the impact that the recent shift to support private social provision via ‘social policy by other means’ is having on the Australian welfare state.
Diana Perche »
Diana Perche is Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy at the University of New South Wales. Diana’s research focuses on the participation of First Nations people in Australian politics and policy-making, and on how Australian governments use evidence and ideology to design public policy affecting or targeting Indigenous people.
Sally K. May »
Associate Professor Sally K. May is an ARC Future Fellow with the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide and an adjunct Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Queensland. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on relationships between people, landscapes, material culture and imagery.
Jo McDonald »
Professor Jo McDonald FAHA MAACAI is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia. She has developed numerous collaborative research partnerships focused around rock art with Aboriginal communities in the Western Desert and Pilbara that link custodians and their ranger groups, mythological narratives and rock art.
Paul S.C. Taçon »
Distinguished Professor Paul S.C. Taçon FAHA FSA FQA is a past ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2016–2021) and Chair in Rock Art Research at Griffith University, Queensland. Since 1980, he has conducted archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork across Australia, Southeast Asia and elsewhere, leading to over 310 academic and popular publications.
Ursula K. Frederick »
Dr Ursula K. Frederick is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra. She has a background in art history, archaeology and visual arts. In addition to rock art, Ursula’s research embraces the archaeology of art, inscription and other mark-making activities, including graffiti.