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.
Nicholas Halter »
Nicholas Halter is an Australian historian who has lived and worked in Micronesia and Fiji. Born in Sydney, he studied history at the University of Wollongong and The Australian National University. Since 2016, he has lectured in Pacific history and historiography at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.
Made in China Journal »
The Made in China Journal (MIC) is a publication focusing on labour, civil society and human rights in China. It is founded on the belief that spreading awareness of the complexities and nuances underpinning socioeconomic change in contemporary Chinese society is important, especially considering
Humanities Research »
Humanities Research is a peer-reviewed, open access, annual journal that promotes outstanding innovative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship to advance critical knowledge about the human world and society. The journal is co-published by the Humanities Research Centre, The
R.J. May »
Dr R.J. May is an emeritus fellow of The Australian National University, attached to the Department of Pacific Affairs. He was formerly a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, foundation director of the National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea and head of the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. In 1976 he was awarded the Independence Medal for his service to banking and research in Papua New Guinea.
Christiane Gerblinger »
Christiane Gerblinger is a Visiting Fellow and graduate co-convenor of ‘Science, Technology and Public Policy’ at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University in Canberra. An alum of Australia’s prestigious Sir Roland Wilson scholarship, Christiane completed a PhD on the language of rejected policy advice in 2021, a PhD in Gothic science fiction in 2000, and a BA (Hons) in literature in 1995. In between, she worked in a range of public sector roles, including as a senior policy adviser on counter-proliferation, data, energy, health and rural policy and as a speechwriter in an economic portfolio.
Lesley Woods »
Lesley Woods is a Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan woman, a linguist and a PhD candidate in linguistics at The Australian National University. Lesley has had more than 20 years’ experience working ethically and collaboratively with Indigenous communities and their languages in New South Wales and Western Australia. She has a long-held interest in linguistic justice for Indigenous people. Lesley lives and works on her ngurrampaa (country), in the Central West of New South Wales.
Marc H. Opper »
Marc H. Opper is an independent scholar based in Virginia in the United States. He is the author of People’s Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam (2019) and has published articles in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Twentieth-Century China and Zuyin jianxun [Footprints Bulletin]. He is currently working on a book-length biography of Lai Teck, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) from 1939 to 1947, tentatively titled Counter/revolutionary Hero: Lai Teck and the Communist Revolution in Southeast Asia.
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Lana Grelyn Takau »
Lana Grelyn Takau is a freelance linguistics researcher working for the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. A native Ni‑Vanuatu originating from Paama and Pentecost parentage, she has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Newcastle in Australia. She lives in Vanuatu with her daughter and loves being outdoors.
V M (Val) Barrett »
V M (Val) Barrett is a former senior executive in the Australian Parliament and senior manager in the Legislative Assembly for the ACT. Her career of more than 30 years commenced as a Hansard reporter before the emergence of modern communications technology, and ended with management responsibilities across the whole range of non-procedural parliamentary support services. In 2015, she took up a research scholarship at The Australian National University to compare parliamentary administration in the UK and Australia. Her doctorate was awarded in 2020.
Elly Kent »
Dr Elly Kent is a researcher, writer, translator, artist, educator and intercultural professional who works in academia and the arts in Indonesia and Australia. Her research focuses on the art of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, and she is a lecturer in Indonesian studies at UNSW Canberra.
Caroline Turner »
Dr Caroline Turner FRSA is a curator and academic who has written extensively on contemporary Asian art. She was co-founder and project director of the Queensland Art Gallery’s first three Asia Pacific Triennial exhibitions in the 1990s, and was previously also deputy director of the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University.
Russell W. Glenn »
Dr Russell W. Glenn spent 16 years in the think-tank community as a senior defence analyst after retiring from the US Army, later joining the faculty of Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. His education includes a bachelor of science from the United States Military Academy and master’s degrees from the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the School of Advanced Military Studies. He earned a PhD in American history from the University of Kansas. He is the author of more than 50 books or book-length reports on urban operations and other security-related topics. His most recent book, Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission Command (2020), was a cooperative effort with serving and retired Australian Army officers.
Virginia Hooker »
Dr Virginia Hooker FAHA is professor emerita at The Australian National University and a fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. She has published widely on Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia, and on literature, art and social change in Southeast Asia.
East Asia Forum Quarterly »
East Asia Forum Quarterly grew out of East Asia Forum (EAF) online, which has developed a reputation for providing a platform for the best in Asian analysis, research and policy comment on the Asia Pacific region in world affairs. EAFQ aims to provide a further window onto research in the leading
Robert O’Neill »
Robert O’Neill was the intelligence officer of the 5th Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment, for much of its first tour in Vietnam, 1966–67. He later became a strategic analyst and historian of war, serving as head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, ANU, 1971–82; director of the International Institute for Strategic Studies, London, 1982–87; and Chichele Professor of the History of War, Oxford University, 1987–2001. He was also the Australian official historian for the Korean War, 1970–82, and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Imperial War Museum, London, 1998–2001.
Gordon Peake »
Gordon Peake is a writer, podcaster and consultant with extensive experience working at the coalface of international development. His first book, Beloved Land, was an award-winning account of life in Timor-Leste.
Global Thinkers Series »
The Global Thinkers Series is an initiative of the Public Policy Editorial Board at the ANU Press. The series was launched in 2020 to highlight the writings of internationally acclaimed Australia-linked scholars, particularly those working in policy-relevant fields. Each volume is a capstone book,
France Meyer »
France Meyer is a professional literary translator specialising in modern Arabic literature. France has translated into French 21 Arabic prize-winning novels, seven of them by Egyptian writer and Nobel Prize of Literature Laureate Naguib Mahfouz. In 2015, France co-designed and taught the first Introductory Arabic online course at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies – Middle-East and Central Asia (CAIS) at The Australian National University, where she was an Arabic lecturer until May 2021 before becoming an ANU honorary appointee in 2021.
Anna Olijnyk »
Anna Olijnyk is a senior lecturer in law at the University of Adelaide. She is the director of the Public Law and Policy Research Unit. She is the author of Justice and Efficiency in Mega-litigation (Hart 2019) and a co-author of Government Accountability: Australian Administrative Law (Cambridge University Press, 2nd ed., 2018) and Judicial Federalism in Australia (Federation Press, 2021). Her work has been published in leading journals, including the International Journal of Constitutional Law, Public Law Review, University of New South Wales Law Journal and Sydney Law Review.
Alexander Reilly »
Alexander Reilly is an adjunct professor of law at the University of Adelaide and a tribunal member of the South Australian Civil and Administrative Tribunal. He is a co‑author of Australian Public Law (Oxford University Press, 3rd ed., 2018) and Rights and Redemption, History, Law and Indigenous Peoples (UNSW Press, 2008), and a co‑editor of Sovereignty: Frontiers of Possibility (University of Hawaiʻi Press, 2013). Alex has written extensively on a wide range of public law issues in Australian and international journals focusing on refugee law and policy, citizenship, and constitutional law.
Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan »
Daya Dakasi Da-Wei Kuan comes from the Tayal indigenous group in Taiwan. He is an associate professor in the Department of Ethnology at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Paul D’Arcy »
Paul D’Arcy is a Pacific environmental historian in the Department of Pacific Affairs, in the Coral Bell School of Asia and Pacific Affairs, at The Australian National University.
Karen J. Brison »
Karen J. Brison is a professor of anthropology at Union College in Schenectady, New York. She received her PhD in anthropology in 1988 from the University of California, San Diego. She has conducted research in Papua New Guinea and Fiji on Pentecostalism, gossip and oratory, childhood and education, and gender. She is the author of three books, and the co-editor of a fourth, and has published numerous articles.
Information Systems Foundations »
The books in this series contain the papers presented at the information systems foundations workshops conducted by the School of Accounting and Business Information Systems at The Australian National University. Scholarly Information Services