Journals

Browse or search a variety of academic journals maintained by ANU Press, or find out more about the journal authors. Download the book for free or buy a print-on-demand copy.

Kirrily Jordan »

Kirrily Jordan is a political economist with a particular interest in all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment and economic development. Her research includes analysis of various public and private sector programs designed to improve Indigenous employment outcomes, as well as the interaction of these programs with the social security system and new forms of welfare conditionality. Kirrily began investigating the Community Development Employment Projects scheme in 2009 and is currently undertaking research on its replacement—the Community Development Program—as well as other federally funded schemes including the Vocational Training and Employment Centres and Employment Parity Initiative. She is working alongside Lisa Fowkes and Will Sanders as a lead investigator on the Australian Research Council project ‘Implementing the remote jobs and communities program: How is policy working in Indigenous communities?’

Derek Freeman »

Throughout his life, Derek Freeman was concerned with ideas whose implications he pursued with tireless vigour. He first established his reputation as a noted ethnographer, doing initial fieldwork in the early 1940s on the local polity of Sa’anapu in Western Samoa. After submitting a study of Samoa for a Diploma in Anthropology at the University of London, he went on to do important new field research on the Iban of Sarawak for his doctorate at Cambridge University. In 1954, he was appointed as Senior Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University producing a range of studies on the Iban and on social organisational theory. Later appointed as Professor and Head of Department and on his retirement as Emeritus Professor, Freeman remained in the Department of Anthropology throughout his career. Derek Freeman died in Canberra on 6 July 2001 at the age of 84.

Nigel Davidson »

Nigel Davidson graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2000 with a bachelor degree in law and arts. He was admitted to legal practice in the Australian Capital Territory in 2001, and assisted with the implementation of Australia’s obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court while working at the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. In 2003 he commenced working for the Australian Capital Territory Department of Justice and Community Safety, assisting with the implementation of the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT). In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands, where he provided legal assistance to judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. At the end of 2007, in Tanzania, he commenced work as a judge’s associate for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, returning to Australia in 2010 to complete his studies towards the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science from The Australian National University. He went back to the Rwanda Tribunal in 2011, working with the Prosecution Appeals section. Since April 2016, Nigel has been based in Hobart, where he has been pursuing research interests in international law as a university associate with the University of Tasmania. He has also been practising as a barrister with Michael Kirby Chambers since the end of August.

John Besemeres »

John Besemeres taught politics at Monash University, was head of Polish and later Slavonic Studies at Macquarie University, spent five years working as a translator in Belgrade and Warsaw, and served for some 30 years in several Australian Government portfolios including Prime Minister and Cabinet, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Foreign Affairs and Trade. The author of Socialist Population Politics (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1980), he has published extensively on Russian and East-Central European affairs.

Shelley Richardson »

Shelley Richardson was born in Canberra and raised in Christchurch. She is a graduate of the University of Canterbury and The Australian National University. She co-authored Anthony Wilding: a sporting life (Canterbury University Press, 2005).

Gloria Davies »

Gloria Davies is a literary scholar and historian of China. She is Professor of Chinese Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University and an Adjunct Director of the China in the World.

Luigi Tomba »

Luigi Tomba is a political scientist who has published widely on China’s political and social change and the urban condition. His latest book is The Government Next Door. Neighbourhood Politics in Urban China (Cornell University Press, 2014). It was awarded the prestigious Association of Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Prize for the best book on Post-1900 China in 2016. He is an Associate Director of China in the World and was the co-editor of The China Journal from 2005–2015.

Hal Kendig »

Professor Hal Kendig FASSA is a gerontologist and sociologist who serves as the Professor of Ageing and Public Policy at The Australian National University in the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing in the Research School of Population Health. He is also Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.

Peter McDonald »

Professor Peter McDonald AM FASSA is Professor of Demography at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.

John Piggott »

Professor John Piggott FASSA is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics.

Anita Pisch »

Dr. Anita Pisch is a PhD graduate in Art History and Curatorship and Visiting Scholar, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, at The Australian National University, Canberra. She also holds a Masters degree in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, and a Bachelor of Arts with Combined Honours in Theatre Studies and English Literature with a Major in Modern History. Her other areas of study have included psychology, political economy, political science and publishing, and she also freelances as an academic editor.

Tahu Kukutai »

Tahu Kukutai belongs to the Ngāti Tīpa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Te Aupouri tribes and is Associate Professor of demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato. Tahu specialises in Māori and indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on issues of Māori and tribal population change, identity, and inequality. She also has an ongoing interest in how governments around the world count and classify populations by ethnic-racial and citizenship criteria. Tahu is a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga: the Māori data sovereignty network, Vice President of the Population Association of New Zealand and Deputy Director of the Ageing Well National Science Challenge. She was a journalist in a former life.

Aletta Biersack »

Aletta Biersack’s Papua New Guinea research has been among the Ipili speakers of the Porgera and Paiela valleys, Enga Province. The research topics upon which she has published include gender; ritual, mythology and cosmology; kinship, marriage and social networks; gold mining in Porgera and at Mt Kare; and the history of Ipili speakers in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She is also the editor of Clio in Oceania, Papuan Borderlands, and Ecologies for Tomorrow, and co-editor of Reimagining Political Ecology and Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific. She is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon.

Martha Macintyre »

Martha Macintyre is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and until 2015 was editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. She has undertaken research in Milne Bay and New Ireland Provinces in Papua New Guinea over a 30-year period and has co-edited several volumes on gender, economic and social change in Papua New Guinea. Her most recent volumes are Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Mary Patterson, and Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited with Aletta Biersack.

Elizabeth Ganter »

Elizabeth Ganter, a public servant and academic, lived and worked in the Northern Territory for over 25 years. She wrote Reluctant Representatives: Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia’s north as a CAEPR Centre Associate in Canberra. Elizabeth is dedicated to improving public administration in Australian Indigenous affairs through better relationships between government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Rebecca Giblin »

Dr Rebecca Giblin is a member of Monash University's Law Faculty. During 2011 she was the Kernochan Visiting International Intellectual Property Scholar at Columbia Law School in New York, and in 2013 a Senior Visiting Scholar in residence at Berkeley Law School. As well as being co-editor of What if we could reimagine copyright?, Dr Giblin is the author of Code Wars (Edward Elgar, 2011), and numerous other journal articles, book chapters, law reform submissions and pieces in the popular press. She has been invited to address diverse audiences across Australia and in the US, the UK, Europe, Israel, South Africa, Hong Kong and South Korea. She is currently the lead Chief Investigator of a $680,204 ARC Linkage Project studying the legal and social impacts of library elending. Many of her research papers are available for full text download via SSRN. She tweets on tech law, IP & related issues @rgibli.

Kimberlee Weatherall »

Kimberlee Weatherall is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School specialising in intellectual property law, including copyright as it interacts with digital technologies. She is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s IP Subcommittee and the Board of the Australian Digital Alliance, and a former member of the Board of the Arts Law Centre of Australia, the Commonwealth of Australia’s Advisory Council on Intellectual Property and the consultative committee associated with the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into Copyright and the Digital Economy.

David Lee »

David Lee is Director of the Historical Publications and Research Unit of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and General Editor of the Documents on Australian Foreign Policy series. He is co-author with Russell Parkin of Great White Fleet to Coral Sea: Naval Strategy and the Development of Australia-United States Relations, 1900–1945 (2008) and author of Stanley Melbourne Bruce: Australian Internationalist (2010) and The Second Rush: Mining and the Transformation of Australia (2016).

Carl Bridge »

Carl Bridge FRHS is Professor of Australian Studies, King’s College London. He taught in the History departments at Flinders and the University of New England before his appointment to his current position in 1997. He has held visiting fellowships at Churchill College and Clare Hall, Cambridge, the National Library of Australia, and the Australian Prime Ministers Centre, Canberra. His current research falls into four areas: the history of Australian diplomacy and defence; war and society in 20th-century Australia; Australian historiography; and the history of the British world. Among his many publications are as editor of A Delicate Mission: the Wartime Diaries of R.G. Casey 1940–42 (2008) and as co-editor of The High Commissioners: Australia’s Representatives in the United Kingdom 1910–2010 (2010).

Liz Conor »

Liz Conor is an ARC Future Fellow at La Trobe University. She is the author of Skin Deep: Settler Impressions of Aboriginal Women (UWAP, 2016) and The Spectacular Modern Woman: Feminine Visibility in the 1920s (Indiana University Press, 2004). She is the editor of Aboriginal History, a columnist at New Matilda, and has published widely in academic and mainstream press on gender, race and representation.

Igor de Rachewiltz »

Igor de Rachewiltz was one of the world’s great scholars of Mongolian and Chinese history. Working for many years at The Australian National University, he completed this work while a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World. He published extensively on the political and cultural history of China and Mongolia in the 12th–14th centuries, and on Sino-Mongolian philology.

Li Narangoa »

Li Narangoa is a Professor of Pacific and Asian History in the School of Culture, History and Language at The Australian National University. She specialises in modern Japanese and Mongolian history, culture and politics.

Carol Hayes »

Dr Carol Hayes is a senior lecturer in Japanese language and literature in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. She teaches both Japanese language and courses about Japan in English ranging from literature to culture and film. Her research focuses on modern and contemporary Japanese literature and cultural studies. A winner of an OLT National Teaching Excellence Award in 2013, Carol also has a strong research interest in eLearning and Japanese language teaching pedagogy, focusing on the relationship between flexible online learning to student motivation and second language acquisition.

Yuki Itani-Adams »

Yuki Itani-Adams is a lecturer in Japanese language and a digital learning developer in the College of the Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. She also works as the academic manager at CIT Solutions. She has taught a variety of subjects in languages and applied linguistics fields at a number of Australian universities. Her research interests cover such areas as bilingual and second language acquisition with particular reference to Japanese and English, and second language teaching pedagogy. She was awarded the ANU Vice Chancellor’s Award for Teaching Excellence in 2012, and an OLT National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2013.

Ceridwen Spark »

Ceridwen Spark is Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Global Research in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies at RMIT University in Melbourne. Ceridwen writes about gender and social change in Papua New Guinea and the Pacific. More recently, she has focused on the relationship between gender and spatiality in the region’s rapidly developing urban centres. Ceridwen has published extensively including in anthropology, feminist studies and sociology journals. She enjoys working with diverse people and methods to produce films, digital stories and exhibitions that reach audiences beyond the academy.

ANU Press Journals

Aboriginal History Journal »

Since 1977, the journal Aboriginal History has pioneered interdisciplinary historical studies of Australian Aboriginal people’s and Torres Strait Islander’s interactions with non-Indigenous peoples. It has promoted publication of Indigenous oral traditions, biographies, languages, archival and bibliographic guides, previously unpublished manuscript accounts, critiques of current events, and research and reviews in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, sociology, linguistics, demography, law, geography and cultural, political and economic history. Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Sciences, The Australian National University, Canberra. For more information on Aboriginal History Inc. please visit aboriginalhistory.org.au. Submission details Please send article submissions to aboriginal.history@anu.edu.au. Articles of about 7,000 words in length (including footnotes and references) are preferred, but submissions up to 9,000 words will be considered. Please submit an electronic version of the paper (text only without embedded images or scans) in Microsoft Word or RTF format, along with a short abstract and author biography as a separate document.

Journals

ANU Press Journals

Discontinued ANU Press Journals

ANU Student Journals