Journals
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Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) »
The Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence series is a collection of publications arising principally from research undertaken at the SDSC. Scholarly Information Services
Vietnam Series »
The ANU Press Vietnam book series aims to publish original social sciences and humanities research on Vietnam that addresses issues of contemporary social and intellectual significance. The series accepts sole-authored studies and edited volumes on Vietnam that embody qualities of critical and
World Forest History Series »
The World Forest History Series aims to produce rigorous histories of forestry that inform contemporary environmental policy debates and provide enduring scholarly landmarks for future generations of historians and environmental researchers. Each book, published in hardcopy and available as a free
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,
Aboriginal History Monographs »
Aboriginal History monographs present studies on particular themes or regions, or a series of articles on single subjects of contemporary interest. Scholarly Information Services
Made in China Yearbook »
The Made in China Yearbook series offers original articles in which scholars and activists analyse the latest trends in Chinese labour and civil society. With their unique blend of in-depth scholarly work written in a direct, accessible style, these books allow readers to situate current events and
PAFTAD »
The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Conference is an academic conference series that originated in 1968. PAFTAD promotes policy-oriented academic research and discussion of Asia Pacific economic issues. In addition to the conferences, held approximately every 18 months, PAFTAD provides high
Field Studies in Ecology »
Field Studies in Ecology showcases the outcomes of research-led, intensive field courses that support undergraduates to accomplish short but high-quality investigations of ecological issues, culminating in papers subject to intense peer review. The series thus provides access to diverse original
China Story Yearbook »
The China Story Yearbook series collects and shapes Chinese contemporary stories from multiple voices and different perspectives under an annual theme for a broad and interested public and professional audience. It presents the larger Chinese realities, possibilities and uncertainties, and suggests
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
Desmond Ball »
Professor Desmond Ball was a Professor in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University, Canberra. (He was also Head of the Centre from 1984 to 1991.)
Professor Ball authored and edited more than 40 books or monographs on technical intelligence subjects, nuclear strategy, Australian defence and security in the Asia-Pacific region.
His most recent publication was A National Asset: 50 years of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (with Andrew Carr). Other publications include Militia Redux: Or Sor and the Revival of Paramilitarism in Thailand; Burma’s Military Secrets: Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) from the Second World War to Civil War and Cyber Warfare; Signals Intelligence in the Post-Cold War Era: Developments in the Asia-Pacific Region; Presumptive Engagement: Australia’s Asia-Pacific Security Policy in the 1990s (with Pauline Kerr); Breaking the Codes: Australia’s KGB Network, 1944–50 (with David Horner); Death in Balibo, Lies in Canberra (with Hamish McDonald); and The Boys in Black: The Thahan Phran (Rangers), Thailand’s Para-military Border Guards. He has also written articles on issues such as strategic culture in the Asia-Pacific region and defence acquisition programs in the region.
Professor Ball was elected a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia (FASSA) in 1986. He served on the Council of the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS) in 1994–2000, and was co-chair of the Steering Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP) in 2000–2002.
Marcus Barber »
Marcus Barber studied marine biology and the history and philosophy of science before commencing a PhD in Anthropology at The Australian National University. His doctoral research focused on Indigenous relationships to water and the marine environment in remote Arnhem Land. He assisted with the conduct of the Blue Mud Bay case, which led to changes in the sea tenure regime in the Northern Territory. Following his PhD, Marcus Barber lectured in anthropology at James Cook University in Townsville until the end of 2009, and he remains an Associate Lecturer. He is now based in Darwin and works for the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), undertaking collaborating research with Indigenous people across Northern Australia about water, marine and natural resource management issues.
Natasha Fijn »
Natasha is a College of the Arts and Social Sciences Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Australian National University. Natasha’s research engages with the exciting subdisciplines of visual anthropology and human-animal studies. Her ongoing interest is in cross-cultural perceptions and attitudes toward other animals; as well as the use of multimedia, particularly observational filmmaking, as an integral part of her research. Natasha is involved in teaching courses within the Masters of Visual Culture Research Program at the ANU. Within her current research she is exploring the connections between Aboriginal Australians and culturally significant animals in northeast Arnhem Land.
Ann McGrath »
Ann McGrath AM is a Distinguished Professor of History at The Australian National University. Currently a Kathleen Fitzpatrick ARC Laureate Fellow, she commenced her career in the Northern Territory and has since worked at Monash University, the University of New South Wales and the National Museum of Australia. She has held fellowships at Yale, Princeton and Durham and the Rockefeller Center at Bellagio.
Leo Dobes »
Dr Leo Dobes is an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Crawford School of Economics and Government at The Australian National University.
Following a DPhil (Oxford) in East European economics, he worked for almost 30 years in Australian Public Service positions, much of it as a Senior Executive Service officer. His experience includes the diplomatic service, the Office of National Assessments, Defence, the Australian Treasury, telecommunications reform, regional programs, and a secondment to Ernst & Young. In 1992 he established an Environment Branch within the Australian Bureau of Transport Economics, publishing a series of reports on the costs and benefits of mitigating greenhouse emissions in the transport sector. He was appointed to the College of Experts of the Australian Research Council just before retiring from the Public Service in 2007.
Dr Dobes’ key areas of expertise include cost-benefit analysis, transport economics, government procurement, and adaptation to climate to change.
His key current research interests lie primarily in the following areas:
the application of ‘real options’ to policy on adaptation to climate change
Sir Sidney Kidman as a climate pioneer
the funding of adaptation to climate change, especially in cases of slow onset coastal erosion
estimation of costs and benefits in adaptation to coastal cyclones (grant from National Climate Change Adaptation Research Facility)
costs and benefits of standardising Australia’s railway gauges 1900 to 1950
J. L. Fisher »
Lucy Fisher was born and schooled in South Australia. In the early 1970s she earned a Bachelor of Arts and a Bachelor of Social Administration at Flinders University and subsequently found employment in various community mental health positions in Canberra. She also travelled extensively during this time. On her return from overseas, Lucy enrolled at The Australian National University where she gained a Bachelor of Letters in Anthropology. In 1981 Lucy moved with her husband to live in Nairobi, Kenya, where she worked with several NGOs. Once back in Canberra, Lucy completed a Master of Arts before relocating to Lilongwe, Malawi, and then Harare, Zimbabwe. Lucy spent the 1990s employed as a lecturer and later research associate attached to the Sociology Department of the University of Zimbabwe. Pioneers, Settlers, Aliens, Exiles: the decolonisation of white identity in Zimbabwe draws on material collected in these years. She was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy from ANU in 2003 and currently lives in the Southern Highlands of New South Wales.
Tran Minh Hang »
Tran Minh Hang is a researcher of the Institute of Anthropology in Ha Noi. She is interested in studying health and reproductive health. She has 20 years of applied experience researching medical anthropology, reproductive health care and the health of women, the disabled, and ethnic minorities in Viet Nam. She obtained her Masters in International Health at the University of Copenhagen and PhD in Medical Anthropology at The Australian National University. The manuscript of this book is based on her PhD research on sex‑selective abortion in Viet Nam.
Judith Bovensiepen »
Judith Bovensiepen is a Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Kent. She has been conducting fieldwork in Timor-Leste since 2005 and is the author of The Land of Gold: Post-Conflict Recovery and Cultural Revival in Independent Timor-Leste (Cornell University Press, 2015). Her current research focuses on the anthropology of oil, the history of natural resource extraction and the contradictory dynamics set in motion by large‑scale development initiatives.
Alexander Cameron-Smith »
Dr Alexander Cameron-Smith is a historian whose work has focused on the relationship between medical knowledge, health practices and government across national, colonial and international spaces. His early research traced relationships between public health and tropical hygiene in Britain and Calcutta. More recently, his published work has examined networks of knowledge, personnel and public health practice in the Pacific and Asia.
Michael Kelly »
Michael Kelly is a military historian at the Australian War Memorial. He also served as a rifleman in the 8th/9th Battalion of the Royal Australian Regiment.
Liam Brewin Higgins »
Liam Brewin Higgins is a research assistant at the Strategic & Defence Studies Centre at ANU.
Barry Ferguson »
Barry Ferguson received a bachelor’s and then a master’s degree in economics from the University of Melbourne, the latter while teaching within the economics department. A year then spent at the University of Warwick was followed by a business career, a long period working with successive Victorian governments, a brief foray into journalism and consulting, and a recent association with the School of Business and Economics at the University of Tasmania.
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
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
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
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.