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Victor Cheng »

Victor Cheng is a historian. His research interests include peace negotiations, the diffusion of military technology and military decision‑making in modern Chinese history.

The editorial committee of the Asian Studies Series interprets ‘Asia’ broadly in terms of region. To date, our titles cover such disciplines as contemporary art, international relations, history, literature, politics, and crime. We are particularly interested in monographs or edited collections

Perspectives on Europe »

Addressing issues relating to Europe and its internal and external relations, Perspectives on Europe offers a platform for critical analyses of the politics, law, economics, history and culture of Europe. It aims to approach Europe in its complexity and broadest geographical scope, reaching beyond

Asian Australian Studies »

The Asian Australian Studies series investigates the cultures, politics and histories of those of Asian descent in Australia, addressing a range of issues and knowledges that inform an overarching framework of ‘multicultural’ Australia. Much of this work engages with diasporic Asian, transnational

Asian Australian Studies »

The Asian Australian Studies series is the first publishing platform dedicated to Asian Australian studies. The series focuses on a growing field that investigates the cultures, politics and histories of those of Asian descent in Australia. Asian Australian studies addresses a range of issues and

Perspectives on Europe »

Perspectives on Europe is the first open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed book series on Europe and the European Union published in the Indo-Pacific region. Addressing issues relating to Europe and its internal and external relations, this multidisciplinary series offers a platform for critical

Anika Gauja »

Anika Gauja is a professor of politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.

Marian Sawer »

Marian Sawer is an emeritus professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.

Jill Sheppard »

Jill Sheppard is a senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.

Jess Melvin »

Jess Melvin is a Discovery Early Career Research Award fellow in the School of Humanities (History) at the University of Sydney. She is author of The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (2018). She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in genocide studies and a Henry Hart Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian studies at Yale University. Her research interests include human rights in Southeast Asia, political violence in the postcolonial world and Acehnese history.

Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem »

Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem is a senior lecturer at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a PhD from The Australian National University and began research on Aceh in 1998, examining military violence against women. Since then, she has undertaken research in Aceh for the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Fund for Women, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Asia Justice and Rights. She is the author of Transitional Justice from State to Civil Society: Democratization in Indonesia (2020).

Annie Pohlman »

Annie Pohlman teaches Indonesian studies at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. She is the author of Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 (2015) and co-editor of a range of volumes on mass atrocities, Southeast Asian history, and trauma and memory. Her research interests include Indonesian history, Southeast Asian politics, comparative genocide studies, torture, oral testimony and gendered experiences of violence.

Kate Bagnall »

Kate Bagnall is a social historian whose research sits at the intersections of migration, law and the family in the British settler colonial world. Kate is best known for her work in Chinese Australian history as well as in the history of the White Australia policy and its colonial beginnings. Her recent publications include the groundbreaking edited collection Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia (2021), co-edited with Julia Martínez. Before becoming a senior lecturer in humanities (history) at the University of Tasmania in 2019, Kate was an ARC DECRA research fellow at the University of Wollongong (2016–19).

Peter Prince »

Peter Prince has been writing for two decades about legal identity and belonging in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. Peter completed his PhD in 2016 in this area through the ANU College of Law. He has published articles, papers and blogs on the implications of this history for the right to belong in modern Australia. His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia in critical ‘aliens’ cases, including Singh (2004), Love & Thoms (2020) and Chetcuti (2021). He is an affiliate of the University of Sydney Law School.

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Benjamin Penny »

Benjamin Penny is a professor of Chinese history and religion in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His research examines religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China as well as in medieval times; Taiwanese religion and society, and expatriate society in the treaty ports in the nineteenth century.

Brian McGowran »

Brian McGowran is a retired academic at the University of Adelaide, where he acquired his bachelor of science, doctor of philosophy and doctor of science degrees. As a micropalaeontologist, he consulted to the minerals and fuels exploration industry and was head of the Palaeontology Laboratory at the Geological Survey of South Australia. He has had visiting appointments at Princeton University, the Geological Survey of Austria and the University of Vienna. As an academic biogeohistorian he perches sometimes precariously between the ‘physical’ and the ‘biological’ disciplines and traditions. One outcome was the book Biostratigraphy: Microfossils in Geological Time (2005). Another was publishing studies of his heroes Martin Glaessner, Reg Sprigg and Charles Darwin, each of whom saw himself as both a geologist and a biologist.

Kate Laing »

Dr Kate Laing received her PhD in 2017 from La Trobe University. She has taught Australian history and politics at various universities and has worked as a research assistant at the University of Technology Sydney and a project officer at The Australian National University.

Felicity Jensz »

Felicity Jensz is a historian of British and German colonial history who focuses on interactions between Christian missionaries and Indigenous people, the education of non-European peoples, and cultural memories of colonialism. Since 2008 she has been employed by the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics, at the University of Münster, in Germany. She is the author of German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848–1908: Influential Strangers and Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910, as well as the co-editor of five collections and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Raj Balkaran »

Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts, focusing on the Devī Māhātmya, the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and the Sanskrit epics. He is the author of The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth and The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and hosts the New Books in Indian Religions podcast.

McComas Taylor »

McComas Taylor teaches at The Australian National University, in Canberra. His research combines contemporary critical theory and Sanskrit narrative literature, primarily in examining questions of knowledge and power: How does discourse shape knowledge, and how does knowledge then feed back into discourse? What makes Sanskrit texts powerful and authoritative? He has published books on the discourse of social division in the Pañcatantra and the contemporary oral performance of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. He has recently published a translation, The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes, with an accompanying audiobook, both available from ANU Press.

Hon S. Chan »

Hon S. Chan, PhD, is the president of the HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College, Hong Kong. His research interests relate mainly to China’s cadre personnel system and civil service system, and to its use of performance management.

Tsai-tsu Su »

Tsai-tsu Su, PhD, is a professor and director at the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, National Taiwan University. She has worked with various government agencies in Taiwan and was the president of the Taiwanese Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs.

Alastair Greig »

Alastair Greig is an emeritus fellow in sociology at The Australian National University. He previously edited and contributed new chapters to the reissue of Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, published by ANU Press in 2015. He is also the author of The Australian Way of Life (2013) and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (1995), as well as the co-author of Challenging Global Inequality (2007) and Inequality in Australia (2003). He has received numerous national and local teaching and community awards.

ANU Press Music »

ANU Press Music is Australia’s first open-access university music press and record label, providing a platform for artists and researchers working in musicology, performance, improvisation, intercultural and popular music. Our artists produce scholastic books, recordings and multimedia projects,

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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.

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