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Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem »

Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem is a senior lecturer at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a PhD from The Australian National University and began research on Aceh in 1998, examining military violence against women. Since then, she has undertaken research in Aceh for the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Fund for Women, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Asia Justice and Rights. She is the author of Transitional Justice from State to Civil Society: Democratization in Indonesia (2020).

Annie Pohlman »

Annie Pohlman teaches Indonesian studies at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. She is the author of Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 (2015) and co-editor of a range of volumes on mass atrocities, Southeast Asian history, and trauma and memory. Her research interests include Indonesian history, Southeast Asian politics, comparative genocide studies, torture, oral testimony and gendered experiences of violence.

Kate Bagnall »

Kate Bagnall is a social historian whose research sits at the intersections of migration, law and the family in the British settler colonial world. Kate is best known for her work in Chinese Australian history as well as in the history of the White Australia policy and its colonial beginnings. Her recent publications include the groundbreaking edited collection Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia (2021), co-edited with Julia Martínez. Before becoming a senior lecturer in humanities (history) at the University of Tasmania in 2019, Kate was an ARC DECRA research fellow at the University of Wollongong (2016–19).

Peter Prince »

Peter Prince has been writing for two decades about legal identity and belonging in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. Peter completed his PhD in 2016 in this area through the ANU College of Law. He has published articles, papers and blogs on the implications of this history for the right to belong in modern Australia. His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia in critical ‘aliens’ cases, including Singh (2004), Love & Thoms (2020) and Chetcuti (2021). He is an affiliate of the University of Sydney Law School.

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Benjamin Penny »

Benjamin Penny is a professor of Chinese history and religion in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His research examines religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China as well as in medieval times; Taiwanese religion and society, and expatriate society in the treaty ports in the nineteenth century.

Brian McGowran »

Brian McGowran is a retired academic at the University of Adelaide, where he acquired his bachelor of science, doctor of philosophy and doctor of science degrees. As a micropalaeontologist, he consulted to the minerals and fuels exploration industry and was head of the Palaeontology Laboratory at the Geological Survey of South Australia. He has had visiting appointments at Princeton University, the Geological Survey of Austria and the University of Vienna. As an academic biogeohistorian he perches sometimes precariously between the ‘physical’ and the ‘biological’ disciplines and traditions. One outcome was the book Biostratigraphy: Microfossils in Geological Time (2005). Another was publishing studies of his heroes Martin Glaessner, Reg Sprigg and Charles Darwin, each of whom saw himself as both a geologist and a biologist.

Kate Laing »

Dr Kate Laing received her PhD in 2017 from La Trobe University. She has taught Australian history and politics at various universities and has worked as a research assistant at the University of Technology Sydney and a project officer at The Australian National University.

Felicity Jensz »

Felicity Jensz is a historian of British and German colonial history who focuses on interactions between Christian missionaries and Indigenous people, the education of non-European peoples, and cultural memories of colonialism. Since 2008 she has been employed by the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics, at the University of Münster, in Germany. She is the author of German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848–1908: Influential Strangers and Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910, as well as the co-editor of five collections and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.

Raj Balkaran »

Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts, focusing on the Devī Māhātmya, the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and the Sanskrit epics. He is the author of The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth and The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and hosts the New Books in Indian Religions podcast.