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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.