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Marcus Fielding »

Marcus Fielding joined the Australian Army in 1983 and graduated from the Royal Military College, Duntroon, in December 1986. He was commissioned into the Royal Australian Engineers, has held a variety of command, staff and instructional appointments, and has served on operations in Pakistan, Afghanistan, Haiti, East Timor and Iraq.

Thea Gellerfy »

Thea Gellerfy is an early career researcher with a background in defence industry, working in support of several global military operations. She is pursuing an academic career in strategic studies, focusing on developing more robust methodologies for defence acquisitions.

John Blaxland »

John Blaxland is Professor of International Security and Intelligence Studies at The Australian National University. A retired Army officer, he is also former head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy.

Andrew Selth »

Andrew Selth is an Adjunct Professor at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University, in Brisbane, Australia. He has been studying international security issues and Asian affairs for 45 years, as a diplomat, strategic intelligence analyst and research scholar. Dr Selth has published 10 books and more than 50 peer-reviewed works, most of them about Myanmar (Burma).

Caroline Stevenson »

Caroline Stevenson is a Visiting Fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the World, The Australian National University. Her interests include the China maritime trade to Southeast Asia, Chinese trade ceramics and the Canton trade.

Jennifer Jones »

Jennifer Jones is a non-Indigenous woman born and raised on Wiradjuri country in the Southern Riverina district of New South Wales. Her PhD, from the University of Adelaide, examined cross-racial collaboration in Australian publishing history. Jennifer’s ARC post-doctoral fellowship project, examining Aboriginal Branches of the Country Women’s Association of NSW (1956–72), was conducted at the University of Melbourne. She joined the History Program at La Trobe University in 2011, teaching Australian Indigenous studies at Bendigo (2011–15), and interdisciplinary studies at Albury–Wodonga (from 2016). Jennifer’s research interests include Indigenous Australian history, rural and religious history, and histories of childhood and education.

Roy Henry Patterson »

Roy Henry Patterson (1940–2017) was a Taungurung Elder with Dja Dja Wurrung, Wiradjuri and Irish heritage. Born and raised in Healesville, Roy worked in the forestry industry, as a circus hand and as a farm labourer. In retirement, he returned to his ancestral lands at Taggerty, in central Victoria’s Upper Goulburn Valley. Drawn by desire to protect and foster respect for his traditional Country, Uncle Roy worked (2002–17) as an Indigenous Educator at the Camp Jungai outdoor education facility and at Holmesglen Rural Learning Centre at Eildon, where he became renowned for applying traditional knowledge to his cooking and in medicinal interventions. Uncle Roy died on 15 April 2017, and is survived by children Keith, Steven, Jessica and their families.

Nicholas A. Bainton »

Nick Bainton is an Associate Professor and Principal Research Fellow in the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining at the University of Queensland. He has been studying the social impacts of large-scale resource extraction in Papua New Guinea for nearly two decades. He has written widely on the social and political effects of extractive capitalism in Melanesia and beyond.

Kalissa Alexeyeff »

Kalissa Alexeyeff is a Senior Lecturer in Gender Studies at the University of Melbourne. She has a background in critical theory and social anthropology and conducts ongoing research in the Cook Islands and Sāmoa in the home islands and diaspora. Her main research interest is the intersection of gender, sexuality and culture in contemporary contexts. She is the author of Dancing from the heart: Movement, gender and Cook Islands globalization (2009) and co-editor of Gender on the edge: Transgender, gay, and other Pacific Islanders (2014) and Touring Pacific cultures (2016).

John Cox »

John Cox has 25 years’ experience in the Pacific, working as a volunteer, NGO program manager, development consultant and anthropologist. His core work on ‘fast money schemes’ explores the moral and developmental aspirations of the growing middle classes of the Pacific. John has published on gender, politics and developmental challenges in Papua New Guinea, the Solomon Islands and Fiji, including new communications technologies, sorcery accusations, disaster response and livelihoods. John is an Honorary Lecturer with the School of Culture History and Language at ANU and an Honorary Associate in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at La Trobe University. He currently works at the University of Melbourne on the ARC Laureate Project ‘Future Islands: Catalysing Solutions to Climate Change in Low-Lying Islands’.

Debra McDougall »

Debra McDougall is a Senior Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of Melbourne, author of Engaging with strangers: Love and violence in the rural Solomon Islands (2016) and co-editor of Christian politics in Oceania (2013). Her current research is focused on a remarkable vernacular language movement, the Kulu Language Institute of Ranongga, and she is interested in other grassroots challenges to socio-economic, political and epistemological inequality in Oceania.

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Celebrating NAIDOC Week »

ANU is a world leader in the advancement of Indigenous scholarship, and enjoys a long-standing commitment to Indigenous reconciliation. Our collection includes over 50 titles dedicated to Indigenous culture, including the popular Aboriginal History Journal, which contains studies of Aboriginal and

Asia-Pacific Linguistics »

Asia-Pacific Linguistics (A-PL) publishes scholarly research relating to the languages of Asia, the Pacific and Australia, with a particular focus on little described languages. This includes language description and grammatical analysis, language documentation, language typology and linguistic

Australian Dictionary of Biography »

Since 1962 the Australian Dictionary of Biography has been prepared by its staff in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. It provides concise, informative and fascinating descriptions of significant and representative men and women of this country, who

Melanie Nolan »

Melanie Nolan is Professor of History, Director of the National Centre of Biography and General Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History at The Australian National University (ANU). Her work includes Breadwinning (2000) a history of women and the state, Kin (2005) a collective biography of a working-class family which won the 2006 ARANZ Ian Wards Prize and was short-listed for the 2007 Ernest Scott Prize, and, most recently, general editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol. 18 (2012). She is the co-ordinator of the Masters of Biographical Research and Writing at the ANU. She was on the judging panel of the Magarey Medal for Biography (2008), the selection panel for the Australian Prime Ministers Centre research and scholarship program (2008-2011), the National Biography Award (2012) and is a member of the Biographical Dictionary of the Australian Senate’s Advisory Board.

Terence Wesley-Smith »

Terence Wesley-Smith is a Professor in the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and Principle Investigator of a National Resource Center Grant (Pacific Islands) from the US Department of Education. He served as center director 2010–18, and editor of The Contemporary Pacific 2008–15. His publications include Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) and China in Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order? (Berghahn Books 2010).

‘Realities and Future of Work’ Review »

Excerpt from Barbara Pocock’s review of David Peetz’s Realities and Future of Work Labour History • Number 119 • November 2020 The pandemic experience reveals what many workers know: formal rights at work are not available to many Australians. This includes those who work every day and for years at

Helen Bromhead »

Helen Bromhead is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, undertaking a research project on climate and extreme weather in Australian public discourse. She is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, The Australian National University. She is the author of Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives (John Benjamins, 2018) and The Reign of Truth and Faith: Epistemic Expressions in 16th and 17th Century English (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009).

Jordana Silverstein »

Dr Jordana Silverstein is a historian based in Naarm/Melbourne, affiliated with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University.

Rachel Stevens »

Dr Rachel Stevens is a contemporary refugee historian based at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.

Kim Rubenstein »

Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government, and Law and Co-Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra and is an Honorary Professor at The Australian National University.

Theodore Schwartz »

Theodore Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. He has conducted more than seven years of field research in Papua New Guinea, beginning in 1953. His publications include numerous journal articles, edited volumes (New Directions in Psychological Anthropology, 1992, with Catherine Lutz and Geoffrey M. White; Socialization as Cultural Communication: Development of a Theme in the Work of Margaret Mead, 1980), and The Paliau Movement in the Admiralty Islands, 1946–1954 (1962). In 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. He lives in Del Mar, California.

Michael French Smith »

Michael French Smith received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1978. He first went to Papua New Guinea in 1973 as a research assistant to Theodore Schwartz and he has returned many times. His publications include Hard Times on Kairiru Island (1994), Village on the Edge (2002), and A Faraway, Familiar Place (2013). As an applied anthropologist, he has provided project design and evaluation expertise to organisations throughout the United States and in several Pacific Islands and Latin American countries. He lives in Honor, Michigan.

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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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