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.

Regina Ganter »

Professor Regina Ganter is a historian specialising in interactions between Indigenous, Asian and European peoples in Australia. She is the multi-award winning author of The Pearl-Shellers of Torres Strait (Melbourne University Press, 1994) and Mixed Relations (UWA Publishing, 2006), having published widely in the field of cross-cultural encounters and contributed to a number of broadcasts, museum exhibitions and curriculum materials.

Heather A. Horst »

Heather A. Horst is a Professor in the Department of Media in Communications at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses upon understanding how digital media, technology and other forms of material culture mediate relationships, communication, learning, mobility and our sense of being human. Her co‑authored and co-edited books include The Cell Phone: An Anthropology of Communication (Berg, 2006); Digital Anthropology (Berg, 2012); and Digital Ethnography: Principles and Practice (Sage, 2016).

Rachel Standfield »

Rachel Standfield is a Lecturer at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre. She is a historian of Indigenous societies and race relations histories in Australia and New Zealand. Her work explores cross-cultural encounters and the agency of Indigenous peoples as they encountered Europeans on their country, as well as exploring the ways those encounters are encoded in colonial sources and national histories.

John R. Wagner »

John R. Wagner is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia in Okanagan.

Jerry K. Jacka »

Jerry K. Jacka is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado in Boulder.

Stephen Loy »

Dr Stephen Loy is lecturer in music at the ANU School of Music, and has convened courses in music theory and aural skills, critical and historical musicology, and popular music studies. He has published on the music of Louis Andriessen and Led Zeppelin.

Julie Rickwood »

Dr Julie Rickwood is a music and performance researcher and practitioner based in Canberra, Australia. Located at The Australian National University, her research has concentrated on popular music and community choirs exploring intersections with music making such as cross-cultural exchange and common ground, gender, identity, place, heritage and the environment.

Samantha Bennett »

Samantha Bennett is a sound recordist, guitarist and Associate Professor in music at The Australian National University. She is the author of two monographs, Modern Records, Maverick Methods and Peepshow, a 33 1/3 series edition (both Bloomsbury Academic). Samantha’s journal articles are published in Popular Music, Popular Music and Society, The Journal of Popular Music Studies and IASPM@journal.

Alexander Massov »

Alexander Massov is Head of the History Department at St Petersburg State Maritime Technical University and Professorial Chair of the Pacific Research Master’s Program at St Petersburg State University. He specialises in the history of Russian–Australian relations and is the author of numerous articles and monographs in this field. He is co‑author and co-editor of Encounters under the Southern Cross: Two Centuries of Russian-Australian Relations 1807–2007 (2007), and co-editor of From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’ Tales of Australia 1807–1912 (2016).

Marina Pollard »

Marina Pollard is the author of numerous articles on the Russian consuls in Australia. Before settling in Australia in 1990, she was employed by the Geography Department of Moscow State University. She has since worked at the Geographic Information System centre at Griffith University. Her historical research on early consular relations between Russia and Australia led to the publication, with Alexander Massov, of The Russian Consular Service in Australia 1857–1917 (2014).

M.F. Braby »

Associate Professor Michael Braby is an Honorary Associate Professor in the Division of Ecology and Evolution at The Australian National University and a Visiting Scientist at the Australian National Insect Collection. He is recognised internationally for his research on the biodiversity of butterflies—particularly their taxonomy, systematics, biogeography, conservation biology and ecology.

D.C. Franklin »

Dr Donald Franklin is an ecologist and natural historian who has lived and worked in the Australian Monsoon Tropics for more than two decades, being based in Darwin for much of that time, but now living in far north Queensland.

D.E. Bisa »

Ms Deborah Bisa lived in the Northern Territory for 22 years and during that time developed strong connections to the local environment and culture through her study, work, volunteering efforts and publishing achievements. Between 2012 and 2017, she was the collections and facility manager at the Northern Territory Herbarium.

M.R. Williams »

Dr Matthew Williams is a Senior Research Scientist at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions in Western Australia. He has studied the biology, ecology and taxonomy of Western Australia’s butterflies and day-flying moths for more than 30 years, is actively involved in their conservation and has undertaken several major field expeditions in the Kimberley.

A.A.E. Williams »

Mr Andrew Williams is a Research Associate at the Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions in Western Australia, having worked for the department in research and nature conservation for the past 37 years. He has conducted three major Lepidoptera field expeditions to the Kimberley, and currently undertakes research on threatened sun-moths and butterflies.

C.L. Bishop »

Dr Carly Bishop is a landscape ecologist with a focus on the application of ecological concepts to biodiversity conservation. She has a particular interest and experience in the integration of quantitative science and spatial data into environmental planning and policy.

R.A.M. Coppen »

Ms Rebecca Coppen is an ecologist with expertise in invertebrate zoology and conducting botanical and Lepidoptera field surveys. Her research interests include the conservation of wetlands, their associated flora and fauna, particularly invertebrates, and the conservation of threatened butterflies and day-flying moths.

Andrey Damaledo »

Andrey Damaledo is a research fellow at the Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) at Kyoto University. He holds a PhD in Anthropology from The Australian National University (2016) and an MA in Advanced Development Studies from the University of Queensland (2009), both as an Australian Award scholar. He was the recipient of the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade (DFAT) Allison Sudradjat Prize. He was also awarded the Ann Bates Prize 2017 for producing the most outstanding PhD thesis on Indonesian studies at ANU. His research focuses on migration, conflict and reconciliation, border issues, development planning and public policy. He is now embarking on a new research to investigate the notions of transnationalism and mobilities in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Richard Chopping »

Richard Chopping is a Team Leader in the Deep Earth Imaging Future Science platform of CSIRO.

Susan Corbett »

Susan Corbett is an Associate Professor at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, where she teaches intellectual property and innovation, e-commerce law and contract law to business students. Susan is a founder member and President of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA).

Jessica Lai »

Jessica Lai is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Accounting and Commercial Law, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. She researches in intellectual property, especially patent law and the protection of traditional knowledge. Dr Lai is the General Secretary of the Asian Pacific Copyright Association (APCA).

Patrik Oskarsson »

Patrik Oskarsson was awarded a PhD in the field of international development by the University of East Anglia in 2011. He is currently a researcher in the Department of Rural and Urban Development at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Uppsala. His research focuses on Indian resource politics, environmental governance and industrial development. Much of this work has been carried out in collaboration with civil society groups in India.

Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega »

Since 1999, Associate Professor Sylvie Largeaud-Ortega has been teaching Anglophone literature with a particular focus on postcolonial Pacific studies at the University of French Polynesia, Tahiti. She has published a monograph and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on Robert Louis Stevenson’s Pacific fiction, and is currently writing a monograph on Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors. She co-organised the first two Bounty International Festivals in Papeete, Tahiti (2013, 2015), and has given seminars on Nordhoff and Hall’s Bounty trilogy in Chicago (2014) and at the Universities of Hawai‘i and of Auckland, Aotearoa/New Zealand (2018).

Emma Dortins »

Emma Dortins is a Sydney-based historian and cultural heritage practitioner. She was awarded a PhD in history by the University of Sydney in 2013. A member of the Professional Historians Association (NSW and ACT), she has worked as a consulting historian, tutored and lectured for the University of Sydney and University of New England, and is currently part of the Heritage Division of the NSW Office of Environment and Heritage.

Ruth Gamble »

Ruth Gamble is an environmental and cultural historian of the Himalaya and Tibet. She completed her PhD at ANU in 2014, and is now a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University, where she is researching the history of Tibet's rivers. While at ANU, she developed and taught its Tibetan Language courses in collaboration with Chung Tsering, Tenzin Ringpopontsang and Grazia Scotellaro.

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.

ANU Historical Journal II »

The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic history journal of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. It is a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987. Contributors to the first journal included academics such as Ken Inglis, Manning Clark, John Ritchie and Oliver MacDonagh along with then-emerging scholars Iain McCalman, Michael McKernan, Margaret George, Coral Bell, John Iremonger, Alastair Davidson, Susan Magarey and Rosemary Auchmuty. As well as upholding the Journal’s commitment to the work of students and early career researchers, the ANUHJ II has expanded its focus to include memoirs, short articles and long-form book reviews. The ANUHJ II invites submissions from students, graduates and academics of any Australian university. For more information about the ANUHJ II, please visit anuhj.com.au

Australian Journal of Biography and History »

The Australian Journal of Biography and History is an initiative of the National Centre of Biography (NCB) in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. The NCB was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a focus for the study of life writing in Australia, supporting innovative research and writing to the highest standards in the field, nationally and internationally. The Australian Journal of Biography and History seeks to promote the study of biography in Australia. Articles that appear in the journal are lively, engaging and provocative, and are intended to appeal to the current popular and scholarly interest in biography, memoir and autobiography. They recount interesting and telling life stories and engage critically with issues and problems in historiography and life writing. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on Australian historical biography, including biographical studies, studies relating to theory and methodology, and the associated genres of autobiography, life writing, memoir, collective biography and prosopography. We are especially interested in articles that explore the way in which biography and its associated genres can illuminate themes in Australian history, including women in Australian society, family history, transnational networks and mobilities, and Indigenous history. Submission Details Please send article submissions or abstracts to the Editor, Dr Malcolm Allbrook, National Centre of Biography, The Australian National University. Email: Malcolm.Allbrook@anu.edu.au. Articles should be in the range of 5,000 to 8,000 words (excluding footnotes), although longer submissions may be considered after consultation with the Editor. Style and referencing: please use footnotes in Chicago style, and follow British spelling.

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 research institutes in Asia and to provide expert comment on current developments within the region. The East Asia Forum Quarterly, like East Asia Forum online, is an initiative of the East Asia Forum (EAF) and its host organisation, the East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) in the Crawford School of Public Policy in the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific at The Australian National University. Submission details Unsolicited submissions to EAF are welcome. An analytic op-ed piece that is accessible to a general audience and written in crisp language is required. The preferred length of submissions is around 800 words. Submissions will be double-blind reviewed and, if accepted for publication, edited for English fluency and house style before returned for clearance by the author. EAFQ does not use footnotes but would be extremely appreciative if hyperlinks to internet sources are included wherever possible. EAFQ reserves the right to determine the title for any piece, but will not publish a piece or a title without permission. A suggested title is appreciated. If you have any further queries, or would like to submit, please contact shiro.armstrong@anu.edu.au.

Human Ecology Review »

Human Ecology Review is a semi-annual journal that publishes peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on all aspects of human–environment interactions (Research in Human Ecology). The journal also publishes essays, discussion papers, dialogue, and commentary on special topics relevant to human ecology (Human Ecology Forum), book reviews (Contemporary Human Ecology), and letters, announcements, and other items of interest (Human Ecology Bulletin). Human Ecology Review also publishes an occasional paper series in the Philosophy of Human Ecology and Social–Environmental Sustainability. Submission details For information on preparing your manuscript for submission, please visit www.humanecologyreview.org. To submit a manuscript to Human Ecology Review, please visit mstracker.com/submit1.php?jc=her, or email humanecologyreviewjournal@gmail.com.

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 Australian National University, Canberra. It was launched in 1997 and went into hiatus in 2013. In 2022, the journal is resuming publication, reflecting the continuing strength of the humanities at The Australian National University, the rapid development of the interdisciplinary, environmental and public humanities over the last decade, and the opportunities for international collaboration reflected in the resumption of international travel in 2022. Issues are thematic with guest editors and address important and timely topics across all branches of the humanities.

International Review of Environmental History »

International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It encourages scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations, and time-scales. The journal embraces interdisciplinary, comparative and transnational methods, while still recognising the importance of locality in understanding these global processes. The journal’s goal is to be read across disciplines, not just within history. It publishes on all thematic and geographic topics of environmental history, but especially encourage articles with perspectives focused on or developed from the southern hemisphere and the ‘global south’. Submission details Please send article submissions or abstracts to the Editor, Associate Professor James Beattie, Science in Society, Victoria University of Wellington, PO Box 600, Wellington 6142, New Zealand. Email: james.beattie@vuw.ac.nz. Abstracts should be no more than 200 words, and include a list of keywords. Articles should be in the range 5,000 to 8,000 words (including footnotes), although longer submissions may be considered after consultation with the editor. Style and referencing: please use footnotes in Chicago Style, follow British spelling, and use single quotation marks only. Find out more details about Chicago Style.

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal »

Lilith: A Feminist History Journal is an annual journal that publishes articles, essays and reviews in all areas of feminist and gender history (not limited to any particular region or time period). In addition to publishing research articles on diverse aspects of gender history, Lilith is also interested in publishing feminist historiographical and methodological essays (which may be shorter in length than typical research articles). Submissions from Australian and international early career researchers and postgraduate students are particularly encouraged. The journal first began publication in Melbourne in 1984. It is the official journal of the Australian Women’s History Network, an organisation dedicated to promoting research and writing in all fields of women’s, feminist and gender history. For more information about Lilith, please visit www.auswhn.org.au/lilith/.

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 how in today’s globalised world Chinese labour issues have reverberations that go well beyond national borders. MIC rests on two pillars: the conviction that today, more than ever, it is necessary to bridge the gap between the scholarly community and the general public, and the related belief that open-access publishing is necessary to ethically reappropriate academic research from commercial publishers who restrict the free circulation of ideas.

Discontinued ANU Press Journals

Agenda - A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform »

Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2021. Agenda is a refereed, ECONLIT-indexed and RePEc-listed journal of the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University. Launched in 1994, Agenda provides a forum for debate on public policy, mainly (but not exclusively) in Australia and New Zealand. It deals largely with economic issues but gives space to social and legal policy and also to the moral and philosophical foundations and implications of policy. Submission details Authors are invited to submit articles, notes or book reviews, but are encouraged to discuss their ideas with the Editor beforehand. All manuscripts are subject to a refereeing process. Manuscripts and editorial correspondence should be emailed to: william.coleman@anu.edu.au. Subscribe to the Agenda Alerting service if you wish to be advised on forthcoming or new issues.

Australian Humanities Review »

Please note: This journal ceased publishing with ANU Press in 2012. Current issues are available at australianhumanitiesreview.org. Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal featuring articles, essays and reviews focusing on a wide array of topics related to literature, culture, history and politics.

craft + design enquiry »

Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2015. craft + design enquiry is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal promoting and disseminating research excellence generated by and about the craft and design sector. craft + design enquiry investigates the contribution that contemporary craft and design makes to society, establishing a dialogue between craft and design practice and cultural, social and environmental concerns. It includes submissions from across the field of craft and design from artists and practitioners, curators, historians, art and cultural theorists, educationalists, museum professionals, philosophers, scientists and others with a stake in the future developments of craft and design.

ANU Student Journals

ANU Undergraduate Research Journal »

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/aurj The ANU Undergraduate Research Journal presents outstanding essays taken from ANU undergraduate essay submissions. The breadth and depth of the articles chosen for publication by the editorial team and reviewed by leading ANU academics demonstrates the quality and research potential of the undergraduate talent being nurtured at ANU across a diverse range of fields. Established in 2008, AURJ was designed to give students a unique opportunity to publish their undergraduate work; it is a peer-reviewed journal managed by a team of postgraduate student editors, with guidance from the staff of the Office of the Dean of Students.

Burgmann Journal - Research Debate Opinion »

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/burgmann Burgmann Journal is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed publication of collected works of research, debate and opinion from residents and alumni of Burgmann College designed to engage and stimulate the wider community.

Cross-sections, The Bruce Hall Academic Journal »

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/cs Representing the combined energies of a large group of authors, editors, artists and researchers associated with Bruce Hall at the ANU, Cross-sections collects a range of works (from academic articles and essays to photography, digital art and installation artwork) that represents the disciplinary breadth and artistic vitality of the ANU. Presenting a challenging and absorbing way for students to hone vital research skills, in the process, Cross-sections nurtures a fruitful environment of collaborative interaction between academics and students.

Medical Student Journal of Australia »

Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2015. The Medical Student Journal of Australia provides the medical school of The Australian National University with a platform for medical students to publish their work in a peer-reviewed journal, communicating the results of medical and health research information clearly, accurately and with appropriate discussion of any limitations or potential bias.

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 has to offer.

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 biological anthropology, including primatology, palaeoanthropology, bioarchaeology and human behavioural ecology. While the primary goal of this journal is to publish work of the highest quality authored by undergraduate students, it will also educate students in regards to publishing in academia. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and edited by ANU academic staff.