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Tom Therik »
Dr Tom Therik was born in Atambua on Timor and grew up speaking a dialect of the Tetun language spoken in Wehali. The challenge for him was not in doing field research as an ‘outsider’ in some remote village but rather in mastering the ritual language of his local ‘instructors’ to enable him to understand what the people of Wehali regard as the ‘true knowledge of the ancestors’. His book offers a fundamental understanding of some of the important traditions of Timor.
Human Ecology Review »
Human Ecology Review is a semi-annual journal that publishes peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on all aspects of human–environment interactions (Research in Human Ecology). The journal also publishes essays, discussion papers, dialogue, and commentary on special topics relevant to human
Claire E. F. Wright »
Claire E. F. Wright (PhD) is an economic and business historian at the University of Technology Sydney. She is interested in knowledge, markets and business strategy, and is working on the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership (ARC DECRA 2022–25). She serves on the executive of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, and tweets @hereorclaire.
Aidan Craney »
Aidan Craney is a research fellow at La Trobe University on the ARC Discovery Project ‘The future of the Pacific: youth leadership and civic engagement’. A development scholar/practitioner, anthropologist and social worker, Aidan has worked with development initiatives throughout the Pacific region and advised youth activists in Australia and the Pacific on thinking and working politically. His research looks at youth civic engagement and livelihoods in Oceania, and the practical and philosophical challenges for aid donors in supporting locally led development practices.
Henrike Frye »
Henrike Frye studied linguistics and philosophy at the universities of Erfurt and Pavia. She did her doctorate at the University of Cologne within the project ‘Documenting child language: The Qaqet of Papua New Guinea’, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s Lichtenberg program. She has worked on documenting language and cultural knowledge in Yucatec Maya (Mexico) and Qaqet (PNG). Her areas of research include language documentation and description, language acquisition, anthropological linguistics and their intersection with local biological knowledge.
Paul Pickering »
Paul Pickering is Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He has published on transnational history, biography, social movements, music and politics, re-enactment as a methodology, industrial heritage, and the use of Linked Data in historical enquiry.
Australia and the World »
The Australia and the World series was established by the ANU Australian Studies Institute (AuSI) to promote the study of Australia, share research and bring an Australian perspective to comparative, transnational and international projects. Scholarly Information Services
Matthew Cunningham »
Matthew Cunningham is an author and historian based in the Greater Wellington region of Aotearoa New Zealand. His research specialities include Crown–Māori relations, environmental history and the history of right-wing movements and ideologies. He has written several oral histories, peer-reviewed journal articles, commissioned research reports and public history pieces. This is his first research monograph.
Matthew is also an award-winning children’s author. His first children’s book, Abigail and the birth of the Sun, won the NZCYA Best Picture Books Award for 2020 and was shortlisted for the NZ Booklovers Best Children’s Book Award 2020.
Leila Kouatly »
Leila Kouatly is an Arabic lecturer at the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies – Middle-East and Central Asia (CAIS) at The Australian National University. Before joining CAIS in 2017, Leila was employed as an educational developer by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences, where she contributed to the development of the online version of several CAIS Arabic courses. Leila’s research interests include second language acquisition and technology in language teaching.
Daishi Adams »
Daishi Adams is an IT technician contracted by The Australian National University to contribute to ANU Press Languages imprint. In 2016, Daishi worked on the ANU Press title Reading Embraced by Australia, the first volume of an advanced Japanese language comprehension series. Daishi’s interests lie in the use of new technologies in the education field.