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Ruth Gamble »
Ruth Gamble is an environmental and cultural historian of the Himalaya and Tibet. She completed her PhD at ANU in 2014, and is now a David Myers Research Fellow at La Trobe University, where she is researching the history of Tibet's rivers. While at ANU, she developed and taught its Tibetan Language courses in collaboration with Chung Tsering, Tenzin Ringpopontsang and Grazia Scotellaro.
Tenzin Ringpapontsang »
Tenzin Ringpapontsang is the Executive Director of the Phagpa Foundation, which is developing education facilities in Mongolia. He has translated several books from English into Tibetan, and is a foundation member of the Lokaksi Translator Group, which translates Buddhist sutras from Tibetan into English as part of the 840000 project. He completed his PhD at ANU in 2016, and while at ANU helped taught and helped develop its Tibetan Language program.
Chung Tsering »
Chung Tsering teaches Tibetan at the ANU, and helped develop its digital Tibetan program. Before coming to ANU he taught Tibetan at INALCO, a languages University in Paris, and worked as an editor and researcher in the Department of Education of the Central Tibetan Administration. He has published more than ten books, including several that were translations from English into Tibetan.
Juliet Meyer »
Juliet Meyer is a PhD candidate in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, CASS, ANU. Her primary research focus is bioarchaeology and forensic taphonomy, with further interests in all aspects of the archaeology of the Asia-Pacific region.
Melissa Miles »
Melissa Miles is Professor of Art History and Theory at Monash University, and a photography historian. She is author of Photography, Truth and Reconciliation (Bloomsbury, 2019), The Language of Light and Dark: Light and Place in Australian Photography (McGill Queen’s University Press, 2015) and The Burning Mirror: Photography in an Ambivalent Light (Australian Scholarly Publishing, 2008).
Robin Gerster »
Robin Gerster is Professor in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University. He is the author of the travel book Legless in Ginza: Orientating Japan (Melbourne University Press, 1999), and the cultural history of the Australian involvement in the post-war military occupation of Japan, Travels in Atomic Sunshine (Scribe, 2008).
Gerald Roche »
Gerald Roche is an anthropologist and Senior Research Fellow at La Trobe University. His research looks at issues of language endangerment, maintenance and revitalisation. He has conducted extensive research in Tibet, examining the predicament of the region’s minority languages. His recent publications include the Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization (Routledge, 2018) and Long Narrative Songs from the Mongghul of Northeast Tibet: Texts in Mongghul, Chinese, and English (Open Book Publishers, 2017).
Hiroshi Maruyama »
Hiroshi Maruyama is Professor Emeritus, Muroran Institute of Technology and Honorary Doctor, Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University. He is currently researching policies towards Indigenous peoples. He first began working with Japanese policy towards the Ainu people in 2007, in the context of the construction of huge dams on the Saru River in Hokkaido. Moving regularly between Japan and Sweden, Hiroshi Maruyama is now engaged in conducting comparative research between the Indigenous policies of these two countries.
Åsa Virdi Kroik »
Åsa Virdi Kroik was born and raised in a reindeer-herding family in the mountainous inland of south Sapmi. She is an author and has also taught and conducted research on a variety of Saami matters. The revitalisation of language and culture has played a significant role in her life, and she has spent a lot of time fighting, and making room, for the Saami’s rich culture, and for the joy of hearing and using South Saami language.
Julie Dibden »
Julie Dibden completed her PhD at The Australian National University in 2011. The topic of her thesis was the rock art of the Upper Nepean, Sydney Basin. Julie is a heritage consultant and works in NSW.