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Bronwen Douglas »
Having taught History at La Trobe University for 25 years, Bronwen took up a fellowship in Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in 1997. Her major research interest is the history of the global concept of race and its particular manifestations in Oceania (conceived broadly to include Australia and Island Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific Islands). This is the theme of the book she co-edited with Chris Ballard for ANU Press – Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940 (2008). She is at present completing a monograph called Indigenous Presence and the Science of Race: Savants, Voyagers, and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1840. This book examines the interplay of metropolitan ideas, regional experience and Indigenous agency in European descriptions, representations and classifications of people encountered in Oceania. She recently began a new project on ‘Naming Oceania: geography, raciology and local knowledge in the “fifth part of the world”, 1511-1920′. By tracing knowledge about places and their inhabitants to actual encounters, the project investigates the co-dependence of local and metropolitan modes of knowing and naming while also throwing new light on the complicity of racial geography and anthropology in 19th- and early 20th-century imperial competition and colonisation. She also has longstanding interests in the history of tattoo; the history of Melanesian Christianities; the intersections of Christianity, gender, and community in postcolonial Melanesia; and the colonial histories of New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Her major theoretical and methodical concern is the identification of traces of local agency in colonial and élite representations of actual encounters, including visual images and maps.
Michael Fabinyi »
Michael Fabinyi is a research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. He is originally from Melbourne, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Anthropology in 2003. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology and Environment at The Australian National University in 2009. His research broadly focuses on the social and political aspects of marine resource management in the Asia-Pacific region, integrating environmental anthropology and political ecology. Much of his recent work has concerned the social dynamics of high-value commodity fisheries such as the trade in live reef fish, focusing on governance in source countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia, and consumption trends in China.
Greg Fealy »
Greg’s interest in Indonesian politics and Islam was awakened as an undergraduate at Monash University and they have remained the focus of his academic and professional activity since then. His PhD thesis was a study of the traditionalist Muslim party, Nahdlatul Ulama. More recently, he has examined terrorism, transnational Islamist movements and religious commodification in Indonesia, as well as broader trends in contemporary Islamic politics in Southeast Asia.
Denise Fisher »
Denise Fisher currently writes on France in the South Pacific, with a particular focus on contemporary New Caledonia. She is a Visiting Fellow with the Australian National University Centre for European Studies. A former senior Australian diplomat, Denise served as political and economic analyst in a number of post-colonial countries (Burma, Kenya, India, Malaysia) before an appointment as Counsellor (Political) in the Australian Embassy, Washington. She has served as Australia’s High Commissioner in Zimbabwe, concurrently accredited to Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique; and as Australia’s Consul-General in New Caledonia covering the French Pacific territories. Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2006, she has written France in the South Pacific: power and politics. Denise has a Masters in International Public Diplomacy from Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters of Philosophy at the Australian National University. In 2011 she was made Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit.
Christine Fernon »
Christine Fernon is the Online Manager for the National Centre of Biography. She worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics before becoming a research editor at the Australian Dictionary if Biography in 1998. She was later the Dictionary’s bibliographer and assisted in creating the online version of the ADB. She now manages this site along with the NCB’s other biographical websites. She has also written on the history of Canberra, including A Different View: The National Library and Its Building Art (2004) and is the editor of the NCB’s newsletter, Biography Footnotes.
Jon Fraenkel »
Jon Fraenkel is a Senior Research Fellow in the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. He formerly worked at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji from 1995-2007. He is author of The Manipulation of Custom; from uprising to intervention in the Solomon Islands (Victoria University Press & Pandanus Books, 2004) and recently co-edited The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji; A coup to end all coups?, ANU Press, 2009. His current research work focuses contemporary Pacific politics, economic history of Oceania, electoral systems in Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Nauru and women’s representation in the Pacific Islands. He is The Economist’s Pacific Island correspondent and regularly covers contemporary Pacific issues for other international media outlets.
Ross Garnaut »
Ross Garnaut is a Distinguished Professor at the Crawford School of Economics & Government, Australian National University College of Asia & the Pacific. Ross Garnaut’s research interests include China’s economic reforms and internationalisation; Asia-Pacific economies’ development and international economic relations; Australia’s economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region; domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development.
Robert A. M. Gregson »
Robert Gregson has published over 140 papers mostly in experimental applied and mathematical psychology, including statistics, cybernetics and psychophysics. He has published six books, has written a chapter for a handbook on psychophysiology, and sits on several editorial boards for international journals. His research interests include mathematical psychology, nonlinear dynamics, and psychophysics.
Dennis Hart »
Dennis Hart is a senior lecturer in the School of Business and Information Management at The Australian National University. Since leaving the Royal Australian Navy and becoming an academic in 1992, he has published his research work in national and international journals and conferences as well as co-edited the first volume of Proceedings in this series of Information System Foundations workshops.
Keith Houghton »
Keith Houghton is Professor of Business Administration at The Australian National University within the Crawford School, the University’s public policy school housed in the nation’s capital. For eight years Professor Houghton served as Dean of the University’s College of Business and Economics and its antecedent bodies. He has been one of two independent reviewers of the Australian audit practice of the accounting firm KPMG prior to the formal oversight by Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC.
He is also a former member of the Australian Centre of Audit and Assurance Research (ANCAAR) and a former member of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) in Australia.