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McComas Taylor »
McComas Taylor teaches at The Australian National University, in Canberra. His research combines contemporary critical theory and Sanskrit narrative literature, primarily in examining questions of knowledge and power: How does discourse shape knowledge, and how does knowledge then feed back into discourse? What makes Sanskrit texts powerful and authoritative? He has published books on the discourse of social division in the Pañcatantra and the contemporary oral performance of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa. He has recently published a translation, The Viṣṇu Purāṇa: Ancient Annals of the God with Lotus Eyes, with an accompanying audiobook, both available from ANU Press.
Hon S. Chan »
Hon S. Chan, PhD, is the president of the HKU SPACE Po Leung Kuk Stanley Ho Community College, Hong Kong. His research interests relate mainly to China’s cadre personnel system and civil service system, and to its use of performance management.
Tsai-tsu Su »
Tsai-tsu Su, PhD, is a professor and director at the Graduate Institute of Public Affairs, National Taiwan University. She has worked with various government agencies in Taiwan and was the president of the Taiwanese Association for Schools of Public Administration and Affairs.
Alastair Greig »
Alastair Greig is an emeritus fellow in sociology at The Australian National University. He previously edited and contributed new chapters to the reissue of Bruce Hamon’s They Came to Murramarang, published by ANU Press in 2015. He is also the author of The Australian Way of Life (2013) and The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of (1995), as well as the co-author of Challenging Global Inequality (2007) and Inequality in Australia (2003). He has received numerous national and local teaching and community awards.
ANU Press Music »
ANU Press Music is Australia’s first open-access university music press and record label, providing a platform for artists and researchers working in musicology, performance, improvisation, intercultural and popular music. Our artists produce scholastic books, recordings and multimedia projects,
R. Wally Johnson »
R. Wally Johnson is an honorary associate professor in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. He worked for many years for Geoscience Australia, first as a research scientist and later in senior management roles. Most of his research career has focused on the volcanology of Papua New Guinea. Johnson is an honorary life member of the International Association of Volcanology and Chemistry of the Earth’s Interior (IAVCEI) and an honorary fellow of the International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics (IUGG).
Neville A. Threlfall »
Neville A. Threlfall grew up on farms in Western Australia and graduated in history and French at the University of Western Australia. He then studied theology for the ministry of the Methodist Church and, through the Methodist Overseas Mission, served in the Rabaul region in 1961–80. In addition to pastoral ministry he worked in the production of literature in English and several Papua New Guinea languages. Threlfall was a visiting fellow in 1981–82 at The Australian National University, researching the history of Rabaul, and then returned to parish ministry in Western Australia and later in New South Wales. He received the Companion of the Order of the Star of Melanesia (Papua New Guinea) in 2020 for his pastoral ministry, Bible translation and historical writings.
Grant Douglas »
Grant Douglas, a former long-time employee of the New South Wales government, has managed various ICT projects and programs. This experience exposed him to many of the factors that can make these types of projects, and their governance frameworks, so challenging. After leaving the sector, Douglas completed a PhD at The Australian National University.
Larry Sitsky »
Larry Sitsky, professor emeritus at The Australian National University, is an internationally known composer, pianist, scholar, and teacher. His books are fundamental reference works on subjects such as Australian piano music, the 20th-century avant-garde, the piano music of Anton Rubinstein, the early 20th-century Russian avant-garde, and the classical reproducing piano roll.
Aboriginal History Monographs »
Aboriginal History Monographs publishes studies in the broad field of Australian Indigenous History. We are especially interested in works that extend the field, providing new insights based on innovative sources or approaches. We welcome works by Indigenous authors and works that emphasise