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R. Wally Johnson »

R. Wally Johnson is an honorary associate professor in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. He worked for many years for Geoscience Australia, first as a research scientist and later in senior management roles. Most of his research career has focused on the volcanology of Papua New Guinea. Johnson is an honorary life member of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and an honorary fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).

Neville A. Threlfall »

Neville A. Threlfall grew up on farms in Western Australia and graduated in history and French at the University of Western Australia. He then studied theology for the ministry of the Methodist Church and, through the Methodist Overseas Mission, served in the Rabaul region in 1961–80. In addition to pastoral ministry he worked in the production of literature in English and several Papua New Guinea languages. Threlfall was a visiting fellow in 1981–82 at The Australian National University, researching the history of Rabaul, and then returned to parish ministry in Western Australia and later in New South Wales. He received the Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) in 2020 for his pastoral ministry, Bible translation and historical writings.

Grant Douglas »

Grant Douglas, a former long-time employee of the New South Wales government, has managed various ICT projects and programs. This experience exposed him to many of the factors that can make these types of projects, and their governance frameworks, so challenging. After leaving the sector, Douglas completed a PhD at The Australian National University.

Larry Sitsky »

Larry Sitsky, professor emeritus at The Australian National University, is an internationally known composer, pianist, scholar, and teacher. His books are fundamental reference works on subjects such as Australian piano music, the 20th-century avant-garde, the piano music of Anton Rubinstein, the early 20th-century Russian avant-garde, and the classical reproducing piano roll.

Aboriginal History Monographs »

Aboriginal History Monographs publishes studies in the broad field of Australian Indigenous History. We are especially interested in works that extend the field, providing new insights based on innovative sources or approaches. We welcome works by Indigenous authors and works that emphasise

Call for Book Proposals – ECR Prize »

ANU College of Law is delighted to announce the ANU Press ECR Prize in Legal Scholarship, awarded annually to the most outstanding and insightful manuscript submitted to ANU Press in any area of law and legal studies by an early career researcher. The prizewinner will receive AU$2,500, have costs

Anthony Ware »

Anthony Ware is an associate professor of international and community development at Deakin University and a former director of the Australia Myanmar Institute. His research, much of which involves Myanmar, focuses on humanitarian and development approaches in conflict-affected situations. He has a particular interest in conflict sensitivity, ‘do no harm’, everyday peace, peacebuilding, and countering violent and hateful extremism with community-led programming. He is the lead author of Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict (2018).

Monique Skidmore »

Monique Skidmore is an honorary professor at Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute. She is an award- and grant-winning Burmese political and medical anthropologist and an expert media commentator. She has published seven books on Myanmar, including Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (2004). She convened the Myanmar/Burma Update conference at The Australian National University for eight years.

Anna Kent »

Anna Kent holds a PhD in history from Deakin University and an MA from the University of Melbourne. Anna began her career working with international students sponsored by the Australian government and continues to work in scholarships and international education in research, policy and practice. Anna researches and publishes on international education, international development and foreign policy, and the intersections of these topics.

Meet the Author: Gordon Peake »

Gordon Peake is a writer, podcaster and consultant with extensive experience working at the coalface of international development. His first book, Beloved Land, was an award-winning account of life in Timor-Leste. His latest title Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville is out now. 1

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Social Sciences »

The Social Sciences board recommends for publication by ANU Press high-quality manuscripts in the social science disciplines of Politics, International Relations, History, Demography, Sociology and Policy Studies. It is particularly interested in work that will advance the University’s goal of

LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures »

LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures Series publishes works on languages and cultures, showcasing the research profile of the sector. Volumes may take the form of monographs or edited collections, and cover one or more languages, in areas such as pedagogy, languages and technology, language

Jérôme Doyon »

Jérôme Doyon is a Junior Professor at the Centre for International Relations (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris. His research focuses on Chinese politics with a specific interest in the inner working of the Party-State apparatus, as well as elite politics, political youth organizations, and the management of ethnoreligious minorities.

Chloé Froissart »

Chloé Froissart is a Professor of political science at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) in Paris and former Director of the Sino-French Centre in Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, state-society relations and the evolution of the Chinese regime. She has a specific interest in authoritarian citizenship, which she investigates through mobilisations, public policies and forms of participation and representation, with a particular focus on labour and environmental politics.

Agenda- A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform »

Karen Sullivan »

Dr Karen Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, a fun and accessible introduction to metaphor combinations with numerous examples from Australian politicians, and has written two other books and numerous papers. Her research examines figurative language, word meanings, and how meanings change over time.

Glenda Harward-Nalder »

Dr Glenda Harward-Nalder is a descendant of the Ngugi People of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island), Quandamooka Nation. She holds a PhD (Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology), MA (Griffith University), and BA (University of Queensland) with additional undergraduate and graduate qualifications in Cultural Studies, Literature, Visual Arts, Digital Media Production, and Education. As a member of the Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders Council, and the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, she has led language retrieval and revitalisation projects, with the support of community linguists and language institutes. She has consulted to Education Queensland and the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority on Australian Languages curriculum design and implementation.

Robert J. Foster »

Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has published widely on globalisation, nation making, corporations, commercial media and material culture. His books include Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea (2002); Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea (2008); and Art, Artifact, Commodity: Perspectives on the P.G.T. Black Collection (2017, co-edited with Kathryn H. Leacock).

Cameo Dalley »

Cameo Dalley is a settler descendant and anthropologist. Her multidisciplinary research has explored Indigenous identities, belonging in contemporary Australia, native title, pastoral economies, and contemporary agribusiness. She maintains research relationships with Lardil, Yangkaal and Kaiadilt peoples in the Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria, and groups in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her first book What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community (2021) was published by Berghahn. She has held academic appointments at The Australian National University, Deakin University, and the University of Melbourne, where she is a senior lecturer in the Indigenous studies program. She is a board member of the Journal of Australian Studies.

Ashley Barnwell »

Ashley Barnwell is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in sociological aspects of emotions, memory, and narrative, and the role of life writing, archives, and literature in sociological research. She is an ARC DECRA fellow working on the project ‘Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia’. This project aims to investigate the inherited family secrets, stories and memories that inform Australians’ understandings of colonial history. Ashley publishes across sociology, history and literary studies, and is co-author of the book Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Australian Literature (with Joseph Cummins, 2019). She is a settler descendant who was born on Birrpai Country. In an ongoing collaboration with Birrpai historian John Heath, she has written about local and family histories of Indigenous-settler relations in the journal Life Writing, and the book, Burrawan: The Desecration and Resurrection of Lake Innes (2023).

Margaret Jolly »

Margaret Jolly is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in Anthropology, Gender and Cultural Studies and Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific. She is an historical anthropologist who has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.

Ben Hillman »

Ben Hillman is Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and a specialist in politics, public policy and public administration in China. Ben is the author or editor of several books on China, including Patronage and Power (2014), and Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang (2016). He is also Editor of The China Journal — the world’s number one-ranked journal in China Studies. In 2023 he is editor of the China Story Yearbook, which is published by ANU Press.

Chien-wen Kou »

Chien-wen Kou is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has been serving as the Director of the Institute of International Relations in the same university since August 2017. His primary research interests include Chinese politics, political elites, and comparative communist studies. He has written or coedited Elites and Governance in China (2013), Choosing China’s Leaders (2014), The Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific (2022), and several other books in Chinese.

Lior Rosenberg »

Lior Rosenberg is a political sociologist specialising in contemporary China. He is a teaching associate at the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include Chinese rural society, China’s public administration and the urbanisation of rural China.

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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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