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Leigh Boucher »
Leigh Boucher is a Lecturer in History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published research on liberalism, race and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Victoria.
Richard Blewett »
Richard Blewett, an Aussie by birth, left for Africa and UK in the 1970s. He graduated 1st class Hons in Geology from Swansea University (Wales) in 1985. Following a year in industry in South Africa, he completed a PhD in structural geology from Leicester University in the UK (1989). During this time he worked in the French Alps, Canadian Appalachians, British Caledonides and Nepalese Himalaya.
Richard joined Geoscience Australia in 1990, and has worked in North Queensland, the Pilbara, Sultanate of Oman, the Yilgarn, Gawler–Curnamona, Arunta and Mugraves. Richard was the Chief Editor of Shaping a nation: A geology of Australia, which was a joint GA–ANU Press publication for the Brisbane 2012 International Geological Congress. He is interested in the management of science and research and has an MBA from Deakin University (2001).
He is presently the Group Leader of Regional Geology and Mineral Systems in the Minerals and Natural Hazards Division at Geoscience Australia.
Thomas Reuter »
Prof Thomas Reuter is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, located at the Asia Institute of The University of Melbourne. After obtaining his PhD from ANU in 1997, he taught at Heidelberg University, held post-doctoral and QElI Fellowships at Melbourne, and a Research Fellowship at Monash University. He was President of the Australian Anthropological Association (2002-2005) and is the chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, and an executive member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Research has focused on Indonesian ethnology (Bali, Java, Kalimantan), New Social Movements, Religion, Political Anthropology, Social Organization, Status, Globalisation and General Theory. Thomas has authored more than fifty articles and the following seven books: Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. Honolulu: Hawaii UP, 2002. The House of Our Ancestors: Precedence and Dualism in Highland Balinese Society. Leiden (Netherlands): KITLV Press, 2002. Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge, 2003. Budaya dan Masyarakat di Pegunungan Bali. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor, 2005. Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian world. Canberra: ANU Press, 2006. Global Trends in Religion, and the Reaffirmation of Hindu Identity in Bali. Clayton: Monash Asia Institute Press, 2008. The Return to Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, Caulfield: MAI Press, 2010.
Don Niles »
Don Niles is Acting Director and Senior Ethnomusicologist of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. He is interested in research and publication on all types of music and dance in Papua New Guinea, including traditional, popular, and Christian forms. The author/editor of numerous books, articles, and audiovisual publications on various aspects of music, dance, and archiving, Don also edits the Institute’s music monograph series (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics) and journal (Kulele: Occasional Papers in Pacific Music and Dance). He is a vice president of the International Council for Traditional Music and former editor of their journal, the Yearbook for Traditional Music.
Alistair Noble »
Alistair Noble is an Australian-born pianist, composer and musicologist. He has performed extensively in recital around Australia, and made many broadcasts for the national (ABC) radio. As a chamber musician he has worked many fine performers, and as a piano duo performs regularly with his brother Colin Noble. He was a founding member of the ensemble Lachrymae Musarum (Sydney) and of the Newling Ensemble (Armidale). His compositions have been performed, recorded and broadcast in Australia and North America.
Alistair holds a PhD in composition and musicology, and is currently Head of Theory and a lecturer in Musicology at The Australian National University’s School of Music. Alistair’s primary research area is mid-20th century music, with a special focus on the work of Morton Feldman, Stefan Wolpe and Edgard Varèse.
Fadzilah Majid Cooke »
Fadzilah Majid Cooke is Associate Professor in Environmental Sociology at the School of Social Sciences, Universiti Malaysia Sabah (UMS) an appointment she has held since 2003. At UMS she was Head of the Ethnography and Development Research Unit from 2005 until 2008. Before joining UMS, from 1995 to 1997, she was a Lecturer at the Faculty of Arts, University of Wollongong, Australia. From 1998 to 2002, she won two fellowships, a postdoctoral at RMIT and a research fellowship at The Australian National University (2000 to 2001). She has undertaken research and published in the area of agricultural development, environmental change, customary land and the politics of civil society for close to 15 years starting with her PhD work at Griffith University. She has published nationally and in Europe, the United States, Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
Gary P. Morriss »
Gary Morriss was born in Singleton, Australia in 1951. He obtained a B.Math. with first class honours in mathematics/physics at Newcastle University in 1976 and gained his Ph.D. in statistical mechanics from Melbourne University in 1980. After postdoctoral appointments at Cornell and ANU, he became a Research Fellow and later Senior Research Fellow at ANU. In 1989 he was appointed as Lecturer in the School of Physics at the University of New South Wales. He is now a Professor in theoretical physics and serves as Undergraduate Director in the School of Physics. His research interests are statistical mechanics and dynamical systems.
Kirsty Gillespie »
is senior curator (anthropology) at the Museum of Tropical Queensland and a member of staff at James Cook University, Townsville, Australia. She received her PhD from The Australian National University in 2008 for research into the music of the Duna people of Papua New Guinea (PNG). Kirsty is the author of Steep Slopes: Music and Change in the Highlands of Papua New Guinea (ANU E Press, 2010) amongst other publications. Since 2007 Kirsty has worked with the people of the Lihir Island Group, PNG, on a cultural heritage programme as they experience large-scale gold mining. In 2013 she co-curated the exhibition Musical Landscapes of Lihir at the University of Queensland (UQ) Anthropology Museum. Kirsty is also an honorary fellow at the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute, UQ.
P.G. Toner »
Peter Toner is an Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at St Thomas University in Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada. He is a social anthropologist and ethnomusicologist who has conducted research and written on the relationship of music to sociality, ritual, and place in northern Australia; on digital audio, memory, and archival institutions; and on folk music and the invention of tradition in Atlantic Canada.
Bob Breen »
Bob Breen’s experience in first-hand research on international and regional peace support operations began in Somalia in 1993 and continued in Rwanda, the Middle East, Mozambique, Bougainville and East Timor periodically until 2002 when he began a PhD program at ANU, graduating in 2006. In 2007 he visited Iraq and Afghanistan as part of a review of Australian military force projection. In 2008 he published Struggling for Self Reliance: Four case studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the late 1980s and the 1990s. In the same year he also co-authored a monograph for the Land Warfare Studies Centre, The world looking over their shoulders: Australian Strategic Corporals on Operations in Somalia and East Timor. He published two studies for the Australian Strategic Policy Institute on meeting security challenges in the South Pacific and strengthening civil-military collaboration for responding to overseas emergencies in 2009 .
Currently, he is writing a volume of the official history of Australian peacekeeping in the South Pacific 1980-2006 and completing a manuscript on the Adaptive Army initiative 2007-2010.