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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.
Michael French Smith »
Michael French Smith received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1978. He first went to Papua New Guinea in 1973 as a research assistant to Theodore Schwartz and he has returned many times. His publications include Hard Times on Kairiru Island (1994), Village on the Edge (2002), and A Faraway, Familiar Place (2013). As an applied anthropologist, he has provided project design and evaluation expertise to organisations throughout the United States and in several Pacific Islands and Latin American countries. He lives in Honor, Michigan.
Helga M Griffin »
Helga Maria Griffin (née Girschik) was born in Turkey in 1935. In 1956, she married an Australian in Rome. She subsequently raised six children in Australia and Papua New Guinea. She taught in further education, and from 1979–98 was on the staff of the Australian Dictionary of Biography project. With Anthony Regan, she edited the comprehensive study Bougainville Before the Conflict (Pandanus Books, 2005).
Trish Mercer »
Trish Mercer is a Visiting Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government at The Australian National University.
Russell Ayres »
Russell Ayres is a policy consultant and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
Brian Head »
Brian Head is the Director of the Centre for Policy Futures and Professor of Public Policy in the School of Political Science, University of Queensland.
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Darryl Palmer »
Darryl Palmer has a BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne; a BD (Hons) from Drew University; and a ThM from Harvard University. He has been lecturing in Classics since 1960.
Understanding the news in 2021 »
As the Myanmar coup continues to rattle world politics, two books shed a light on Myanmar’s turbulent democratic history. Trevor Wilson’s Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar and Andrew Selth’s 2020 publication Interpreting Myanmar are available for free download. With the UNHCR reporting that
ANU Press triumphs in year of turmoil »
Bolstered by the unprecedented growth in remote online learning, ANU Press enjoyed its most successful year to date. With a collection now exceeding 940 titles and 5 million downloads annually, ANU Press emerged from the turmoil of 2020 as one of the world’s largest open-access publishing houses.