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.
Dennis Hart »
Dennis Hart is a senior lecturer in the School of Business and Information Management at The Australian National University. Since leaving the Royal Australian Navy and becoming an academic in 1992, he has published his research work in national and international journals and conferences as well as co-edited the first volume of Proceedings in this series of Information System Foundations workshops.
Keith Houghton »
Keith Houghton is Professor of Business Administration at The Australian National University within the Crawford School, the University’s public policy school housed in the nation’s capital. For eight years Professor Houghton served as Dean of the University’s College of Business and Economics and its antecedent bodies. He has been one of two independent reviewers of the Australian audit practice of the accounting firm KPMG prior to the formal oversight by Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC.
He is also a former member of the Australian Centre of Audit and Assurance Research (ANCAAR) and a former member of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) in Australia.
Ron Huisken »
Ron Huisken joined the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University in 2001, after nearly twenty years working in the Australian government departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Defence, and Prime Minister and Cabinet. His research interests include US security policies, multilateral security processes in East Asia, alliance management and non-proliferation. Dr Huisken has authored numerous works, including a number of working and Canberra papers published by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
Anna Haebich »
Professor Anna Haebich is a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia. She is known for her creative interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to research. Her distinguished publication record includes award winning books, exhibitions and videos and academic works and online contributions. Her career brings together university teaching and research, centre directorship, museum curatorship, visual arts practice, work with Indigenous communities, and creative writing.
Anna’s meticulous research is dedicated to achieving social justice and humanitarian goals through social action, creativity and knowledge creation. Her research interests include histories of Indigenous peoples, immigration, the body, the environment, visual arts, museums, representations of the past, biography and crime and gender. Her latest research project is to document the history of Aboriginal performance and performers in Western Australia.
Recent positions include Research Intensive Professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, inaugural Historian in Residence at the State Library of Queensland and inaugural Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. Anna is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. She is a Vice President of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and member of the Research Committee of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Luke Hambly »
Luke Hambly is the Program Manager for the Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI), housed by the Crawford School in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. He has been with CDI since 2005 and prior to this, Luke worked within the discipline of Anthropology at ANU, including as research assistant to the Anthropology Department in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies (RSPAS), and as the inaugural course Coordinator of the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD) in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2004 Luke was awarded a Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development at ANU.
Luke was employed at AusAID between 1998 and 2000 working in a variety of areas within the agency, including the PNG branch, where in 2000 he was given the opportunity to work for 3 months with the Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group as a civilian monitor on the island of Buka. In 1999 he spent 3 months in Alice Springs working with the NT Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority assisting in the registration of sacred sites within the Northern Territory of Australia.
Adrian Horridge »
After graduating with a PhD in neurophysiology in 1954, Professor Adrian Horridge, was a Scientific Officer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, U.K., and a Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, with a Fellowship from the Commissioners for Exhibition of 1851. From 1956-69 he was Lecturer in Zoology then Director, Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews University, Scotland.
As part of the collaboration with Professor Bullock to write a large compendium on the nervous systems of the invertebrates, there followed three visits to the USA; 1959-60 as a Visiting Associate Professor at University of California, and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study Stanford, California. In 1965, he was a Visiting Professor, Yale. From 1955-69, there were numerous lecture tours, including twice to Russia, and periods of work in marine laboratories, especially Plymouth, Millport, Naples, Port Royal (Jamaica), Friday Harbor (British Columbia), Ghardaga (Red Sea) Heron Island and Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef). In 1969 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and in the same year became the 4th founding Professor of the Research School of Biological Sciences in The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and in 1973, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, and Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. In 1975 he was Chief Scientist on the U.S. Research Ship Alpha Helix, in the Moluccas, with a base camp at the island of Banda. This led to the writing of several books and monographs on traditional Indonesian boat building. From 1976-77, he was Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, and from 1987 onwards the Executive Director, Centre for Visual Sciences at ANU. Numerous lecture tours abroad including twice to India, Germany and China. He retired at the end of 1992, and from 1993-94 was again Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. He is at present an Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow in ANU.
Janet Hunt »
Janet Hunt is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University where she teaches Australian Indigenous Development and conducts research on governance and engagement, community development, the socio-economic benefits of Aboriginal involvement in natural resource management in NSW, and the work of international NGOs with Indigenous communities in Australia. She previously managed the Indigenous Community Governance Project 2004-2008, an ARC Linkage Project with Reconciliation Australia. She has been a member of the Central Land Council’s Community Development Reference group since 2007. Her background is in education and international development and she has lectured in International and Community Development at RMIT and Deakin Universities. She was Executive Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the peak body of international development NGOs, from 1995-2000 and prior to that was Executive Director of the International Women’s Development Agency. She has served on a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees.
Katie Hayne »
Katie has worked as a digital media project officer at the CCR/RSH since 2001. She has worked on a number of research projects including an ARC linkage project Indigenous knowledge and Western science pedagogy: a comparative approach and an ARC E-Research project i-Dig: Developing a prototype multi-institutional search engine for Australian Indigenous collections. Katie currently advises on digital media and film projects and teaches in the Masters of Visual Culture Research. She has previously lectured in Computer Graphic Design at La Salle College, Beijing and tutored in Visual Communications at the University of SA, Adelaide.
Barry Hindess »
After working as a sociologist in Britain, Barry Hindess joined the Australian National University in 1987, later moving to ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences, where he learned to pass as a political scientist and developed his interest in the politics of corruption and anti-corruption. He is now an Emeritus Professor in ANU’s School of Politics and International Relations. Like many senior academics he has publications he prefers to forget, but he is happy to recall Discourses of Power: from Hobbes to Foucault, Governing Australia (with Mitchell Dean), Corruption and Democracy in Australia, Us and them: elites and anti-elitism in Australia (with Marian Sawer) and Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: the new integrity warriors (with Luis de Sousa and Peter Larmour).
Boyd Hunter »
Boyd Hunter (PhD) is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University where he specialises in labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research. He is currently on the Steering Committee for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Australia, the Scientific Reference Group for the National Indigenous (Closing the Gaps) Clearinghouse, and has been the Managing Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics since 2008. His publications span across many social science disciplines and, at last count, he had in excess of 1000 scholarly citations.
Christine Jubb »
Christine Jubb is a full time Research Fellow in ANCAAR at The Australian National University, having served previously as Professor of Accounting at Deakin University in Victoria. She has been a member of the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board since 2005. She is co-author of a major auditing textbook, Assurance and Auditing: Concepts for a Changing Environment. She has secured research grants including from the Australian Research Council.
John Kleinig »
John Kleinig is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and in the PhD Programs in Philosophy and Criminal Justice, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. He is also Strategic Research Professor at Charles Sturt University and Professorial Fellow and Program Manager in Criminal Justice Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Canberra, Australia). Prior to coming to John Jay College, Kleinig taught for 17 years at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His early and continuing interests have been in moral, social and political philosophy, though he has also done extensive work in philosophy of education, bioethics and, more recently, criminal justice ethics. He is the author/editor of 18 books, and is currently completing four books: Patriotism (with Igor Primoratz and Simon Keller), The Problematic Virtue of Loyalty, Professional Police Practice (with P.A.J Waddington and Martin Wright), and Ends and Means in Policing.
Elizabeth Keen »
Elizabeth Keen studied English Language and Literature at Bristol University (BA Hons 1964) with special attention to the medieval period. While raising a family in Australia she worked as a teacher, then resumed her studies in the History Department at The Australian National University (MA 1996, PhD 2002). As a Visiting Fellow in the Department she published a number of papers on the medieval encyclopaedic genre and the monograph Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things (ANU Press) in 2007. The book-chapter ‘Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world’ is due to appear in 2011 in Encylopaedism before the Enlightenment ed. J. König and G.Woolf (CUP, in press).
Michael Kend »
Dr Michael Kend’s research interests include financial reporting, the market for audit services, and capital markets research. He is a research fellow of the Australian National Centre for Audit and Assurance Research (ANCAAR). He is a former accounting lecturer at ANU (2003 to July 2007), and a former convenor of the Australian Auditing Research Forum held annually at ANU since 2003. He has published in the areas of segment reporting, auditing expertise and corporate law reforms. He has been awarded several grants including from the CPA Australia grant scheme, ARC Linkage and the AFAANZ research grants.
James Leach »
James Leach holds a personal Chair in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His publications include: Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (2003) and Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (2004). James was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute J.B. Donne Prize in the Anthropology of Art for 1999 and The Philip Leverhulme Prize (for a co-creative approach to anthropological research) in 2004. His writing and teaching draws upon, and extends, long term collaborative ethnographic field research with Nekgini-language speaking people who live in and around Reite village on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea.
David Lawrence »
Dr David Lawrence is an anthropologist who has worked in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Finland. He has academic qualifications in Asian history, political science, languages and in museum curatorial practice and librarianship.
David’s doctoral research examined the traditional and contemporary aspects of economic ties between Torres Strait Islanders and coastal Papuans.
In Australia he was Coordinator of the Torres Strait Baseline Study for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and later was commissioned to write on the nature and development of Aboriginal joint management in Kakadu National Park.
Among his publications are: Customary Exchange across Torres Strait (Queensland Museum 1994) Kakadu: the making of a national park (Miegunyah Press 2000); The Great Barrier Reef: finding the right balance (Melbourne University Press 2002) and most recently, Gunnar Landtman in Papua, 1910 to 1912 (ANU Press 2010).
Between 2005 and 2007 David was Research Coordinator on the Community Sector Program Community Snapshot: a national survey of 300 rural communities across the Solomon Islands. The final reports, Hem nao, Solomon Islands, tis team, were presented to AusAID in 2007. In 2005 he was a Frederick Watson Fellow at the National Archives of Australia and in 2010 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive.
He is currently a Resident Visiting Fellow at the Resource Management in Asia Pacific program at ANU and a consulting anthropologist on the 2010 and 2011 RAMSI People’s Surveys in the Solomon Islands.
Peter Greener »
Dr. Peter Greener is Dean of the Academic Faculty at the Command and Staff College of the New Zealand Defence Force and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at AUT University, Auckland. He was Head of the Division of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies at AUT University from 2003 – 2007, and Head of the Department of Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology from 1998 – 2003. He has a Masters degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD is in Political Studies, with a focus on New Zealand Defence decision making, from the University of Auckland. Peter’s research interests include the aetiology, management and resolution of conflict; post conflict development; military capability development; and the politics of defence decision making. He brings to these interests the perspective of his many years experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Peter’s most recent publications are ‘Preparing for an Uncertain Future: Force Structure Implications of the New Zealand Defence White Paper 2010’, Security Challenges, Volume 7, Number 1, Autumn 2011; ‘Ethics Research: Moral Psychology and its Promise of Benefits for Moral Reasoning in the Military’, (with Don Parker) in Military Ethics; International Perspectives, Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press (2010), edited by Lt.Col. Jeff Stouffer and Dr.Stefan Seiler; Timing is Everything: The Politics and Processes of New Zealand Defence Acquisition Decision Making, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.173, Canberra: ANU Press (2009), and Decision Making: International Perspectives, Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press (2009), edited jointly with Lt.Col. Jeff Stouffer.
Ann Genovese »
Ann Genovese is a historian of modern Australian jurisprudence, and an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Trained in two disciplines, her work focuses on how law and history can be brought into better relationship, to address how Australians live with and practise their law.
Trish Luker »
Trish Luker is based in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. Her primary research interests are located at the intersections of evidence law, legal decision-making and documentary practices.
Merici- Ursula Hall Academic Journal »
Please note: This journal is currently not publishing any new issues. Merici is the combined works of undergraduate authors at Ursula Hall. Merici contains research and analysis from a range of disciplines and is thoroughly reviewed by ANU academics to ensure the showcasing of the best Ursula Hall
The Human Voyage: Undergraduate Research in Biological Anthropology »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/hv The Human Voyage: Undergraduate Research in Biological Anthropology is a journal that publishes outstanding student articles in all areas of
Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) »
ANZSOG publishes a series of monographs and occasional papers, under the auspices of ANU Press. This series addresses a diverse range of topics on public policy and administration, from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Contributors are drawn from academia, government and the private
Practical Ethics and Public Policy »
The Practical Ethics and Public Policy series (formerly the CAPPE series) is edited by Professor Michael J. Selgelid, Academic Visitor in the ANU School of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash. Scholarly Information Services
China Update Series »
The China Update Series is Australia's premier publication for in-depth discussion and analysis of the Chinese economy. The book features contributions from the world's leading academics, policymakers and government representatives who discuss the latest research on the Chinese economy.