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David Bulbeck »

David Bulbeck is a specialist in the archaeology and palaeoanthropology of Peninsular Malaysia and Sulawesi. Bulbeck’s PhD, from ANU, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS), included a survey of fortifications and other sites associated with the rise of Makassar as a trading emporium in South Sulawesi between the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries AD. A subsequent project focused on the historical archaeology of the early iron-producing kingdom of Luwuq, South Sulawesi. Since 2009, Bulbeck has been a Research Associate in the ANU Department of Archaeology and Natural History, devoting most of his time to a project on the prehistory of the Lake Towuti region in south-eastern Sulawesi.

Philip J. Piper »

Philip J. Piper is an archaeologist in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University. His zooarchaeological research has concentrated on identifying the transition from hunting to animal management in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia, Late Pleistocene and Early Holocene subsistence strategies, prehistoric island colonisation and adaptation, and the application of zooarchaeology and palaeoecology to issues of contemporary biological conservation. His most recent work has focused on Neolithic and Bronze Age settlement patterning, social and cultural relationships and the construction of sound chronological frameworks in southern and central Vietnam.

Eun Jeong Soh »

Eun Jeong Soh received her PhD from the University of South Carolina. Her primary research interests are food management, health and market place economy in North Korea. From 2014 to 2016, she was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.

Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone »

Elisabetta Gnecchi-Ruscone teaches Societies and Cultures of the Pacific at the University of Milano-Bicocca and consults for ethnographic museums; she holds a PhD from The Australian National University, and her site of fieldwork is Tufi (Papua New Guinea).

Anna Paini »

Anna Paini is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the University of Verona. She holds a PhD in Cultural Anthropologly from The Australian National University and has done extensive fieldwork in Lifou (New Caledonia).

Siobhan McDonnell »

Siobhan McDonnell is a Research Fellow in the National Centre for Indigenous Studies and the State Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University.

Charles Darwin University »

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Don Zoellner »

Dr Don Zoellner has worked in the school, vocational and higher education sectors in the Northern Territory since 1973. He served as the Executive Director of Centralian College in Alice Springs and Pro Vice-Chancellor VET and Community Engagement at Charles Darwin University. He has been a member of the Board of Directors of the Enterprise and Career Education Foundation, a member of the National Advisory Council on Suicide Prevention, Chairperson of the Australian Principals’ Associations Professional Development Council and a board member of TAFE Directors Australia. Dr Zoellner has served on numerous advisory committees, reviews and evaluations of education and training at both NT and national levels. Dr Zoellner is a Fellow of the Australian College of Educators and recently retired board chair of Group Training NT. He is the independent chair of the Industry Skills Advisory Council NT and has recently been appointed as the Northern Territory representative on the Australian Industry and Skills Committee. Dr Zoellner completed his Doctor of Philosophy in 2013 by describing the development and implementation of vocational education and training policy in Australia and continues to research, write and publish in the area.

Sophie Scott-Brown »

Sophie Scott-Brown was awarded an international scholarship for her PhD in contemporary British historiography, later working as assistant editor for Using Lives: Essays in Australian History and Biography (Australian Dictionary of Biography). Currently the Participation and Learning Manager for the National Centre for Writing (Norwich, UK), she continues to work on modern intellectual history and biography.

Sally Treloyn »

Sally Treloyn is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow and a Senior Lecturer in Ethnomusicology and Intercultural Research at the Faculty of Victorian College of the Arts and Melbourne Conservatorium of Music at the University of Melbourne. Sally’s academic interests are centred on repatriation, sustainability, and the performance traditions of the Kimberley and the Pilbara, Australia.

Annmarie Elijah »

Annmarie Elijah is Associate Director of the Centre for European Studies at The Australian National University. She has worked as a policy officer in the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and has taught politics at the University of Melbourne, Victoria University of Wellington and ANU. Her research interests include trade policy, Australia-EU relations, European integration, federalism and trans-Tasman relations.

Don Kenyon »

Don Kenyon is Associate Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, The Australian National University. During 1993–1996 he was Australian Ambassador to the GATT and WTO in Geneva and during 1997–2000 Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxemburg. He was a senior trade negotiator for the Australian Government with many years’ experience in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations.

Karen Hussey »

Karen Hussey is Professor and Deputy Director at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. Trained as a political scientist, Karen undertakes research in the field of public policy and governance, with a particular interest in public policy relating to sustainable development. Her recent research has focused on water and energy security, the role of the state in climate change mitigation and adaptation, the links between international trade and environmental regulation, and the peculiarities of public policy in federal and supranational systems.

Pierre van der Eng »

Pierre van der Eng is Associate Professor in the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University. He is an economist and historian with interests in business history and international business, as well as economic history and development economics. His current research interests include aspects of business development and company organisation, particularly continental European firms in Australia.

Michael Wesley »

Michael Wesley is Professor of International Affairs and Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. His research interests include Australian foreign policy, Asian security dynamics, state-building interventions and transnational security threats.

Philip Hughes »

Philip Hughes worked full time as the project’s geoarchaeologist from 1974 to 1977 while at ANU. From 1985–1991, while at University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), working with colleagues and students, he undertook research into soil erosion and catchment and swamp hydrology at Kuk aimed at further understanding the site’s geoarchaeology and human impact on soil erosion in the catchment from the late Pleistocene to the present.

Jack Golson »

Jack Golson took on the organisation and direction of the Kuk project as a multidisciplinary undertaking along lines to which he had been introduced as a student, incorporating palaeobotany and geomorphology with archaeology and ethnography.

Tim Denham »

Tim Denham undertook multidisciplinary investigations of early plant exploitation and cultivation at Kuk Swamp for his PhD research at ANU from 1997 to 2004. In particular, he introduced to the project recent advances in archaeobotany, allowing the identification of basic food crops of the New Guinea/Pacific region like yams, taro and bananas. He was also an advocate of more integrated site sampling procedures.

Pamela Swadling »

Pamela Swadling worked as an archaeologist in PNG initially at UPNG, then at the Institute of PNG Studies. From 1978 to 1999, she was Curator of Prehistory at the National Museum. With Director Soroi Eoe and Jack Golson, she put Kuk on its long journey to becoming a World Heritage Site. She also initiated a series of draft booklets about the findings at Kuk, out of which there began to emerge in the early 2000s the Kuk book that we have today.

John Muke »

John Muke is the first Papua New Guinean to be awarded a PhD in archaeology. He returned home with it from University of Cambridge in early 1993 to a lectureship in the Department of Anthropology at UPNG. Born and raised in the Minj area of the middle Wahgi Valley, less than 50 km east of Mount Hagen, he played an important role in negotiating on behalf of the project at crucial phases in its history—when the Kuk Station was closed down at the end of 1990, and when some years later the locals repossessed the station land. He also worked closely with Tim Denham on the nomination of Kuk as a World Heritage Site.

Robbie Robertson »

Robbie Robertson is a former Professor of Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific (Suva), and Professor and Head of Arts & Social Sciences at James Cook University. He is currently Professor and Dean of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities at Swinburne University of Technology. He has also taught at La Trobe University, The Australian National University and the University of Otago. He has published widely on Fiji and globalisation, his most recent work being ‘Globalization thinking and the Past’, in Tamar Hodos (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (2017).

Anna-Karina Hermkens »

Anna-Karina Hermkens is an academic (lecturer, writer and researcher) who specialises in cultural anthropology, ethnographic art, museum collections and gender studies. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196). She is currently working at the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, and is a visiting research fellow in Professor Nicholas Thomas’s Pacific Presences Project, at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Anna-Karina’s aim is to explore and establish an ‘anthropology-in-art’ practice which fuses academic theory and research on gender and art with her ceramics and painting.

Katherine Lepani »

Katherine Lepani is an anthropologist with a research focus on gender and health. She lives in Papua New Guinea and is currently working as gender equity specialist for the PNG Governance Facility, a joint initiative between the Governments of PNG and Australia. She was recently a senior research associate with Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196), 2010–2015. Lepani’s book Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands (2012), based on her PhD thesis, is the first full-length ethnography that examines the interface between global and local understandings of gender, sexuality and HIV in a Melanesian cultural context.

Hilde Coffé »

Hilde Coffé is an Associate Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on public opinion, political behaviour and political representation. She has written numerous articles that have been published in leading political science and sociology journals, and has been a visiting fellow at different institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, the University of Sydney and the Åbo Akademi University.

Nic Maclellan »

Nic Maclellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific islands. As a broadcaster and correspondent, he has contributed to Islands Business magazine, Radio Australia, The Guardian, Inside Story, The Contemporary Pacific and other regional media and journals. He has written widely on the environment, development, decolonisation and demilitarisation in the Pacific, and was awarded the 2015 ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Sector’ award by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID). He is co-author of other books on Pacific affairs, including La France dans le Pacifique: de Bougainville à Moruroa (Editions La Découverte, Paris), After Moruroa: France in the South Pacific (Ocean Press, New York and Melbourne) and Kirisimasi (PCRC, Suva).

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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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