Authors & editors
ANU Press has collaborated with a diverse range of authors and editors across a wide variety of academic disciplines. Browse the ANU Press collection by author or editor.
Annmarie Elijah »
Annmarie Elijah is Associate Director of the Centre for European Studies at The Australian National University. She has worked as a policy officer in the Australian Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet, and has taught politics at the University of Melbourne, Victoria University of Wellington and ANU. Her research interests include trade policy, Australia-EU relations, European integration, federalism and trans-Tasman relations.
Don Kenyon »
Don Kenyon is Associate Professor and Visiting Fellow at the Centre for European Studies, The Australian National University. During 1993–1996 he was Australian Ambassador to the GATT and WTO in Geneva and during 1997–2000 Ambassador to the European Union, Belgium and Luxemburg. He was a senior trade negotiator for the Australian Government with many years’ experience in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations.
Karen Hussey »
Karen Hussey is Professor and Deputy Director at the Global Change Institute at the University of Queensland. Trained as a political scientist, Karen undertakes research in the field of public policy and governance, with a particular interest in public policy relating to sustainable development. Her recent research has focused on water and energy security, the role of the state in climate change mitigation and adaptation, the links between international trade and environmental regulation, and the peculiarities of public policy in federal and supranational systems.
Pierre van der Eng »
Pierre van der Eng is Associate Professor in the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University. He is an economist and historian with interests in business history and international business, as well as economic history and development economics. His current research interests include aspects of business development and company organisation, particularly continental European firms in Australia.
Michael Wesley »
Michael Wesley is Professor of International Affairs and Dean of the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. His research interests include Australian foreign policy, Asian security dynamics, state-building interventions and transnational security threats.
Philip Hughes »
Philip Hughes worked full time as the project’s geoarchaeologist from 1974 to 1977 while at ANU. From 1985–1991, while at University of Papua New Guinea (UPNG), working with colleagues and students, he undertook research into soil erosion and catchment and swamp hydrology at Kuk aimed at further understanding the site’s geoarchaeology and human impact on soil erosion in the catchment from the late Pleistocene to the present.
Jack Golson »
Jack Golson took on the organisation and direction of the Kuk project as a multidisciplinary undertaking along lines to which he had been introduced as a student, incorporating palaeobotany and geomorphology with archaeology and ethnography.
Tim Denham »
Tim Denham undertook multidisciplinary investigations of early plant exploitation and cultivation at Kuk Swamp for his PhD research at ANU from 1997 to 2004. In particular, he introduced to the project recent advances in archaeobotany, allowing the identification of basic food crops of the New Guinea/Pacific region like yams, taro and bananas. He was also an advocate of more integrated site sampling procedures.
Pamela Swadling »
Pamela Swadling worked as an archaeologist in PNG initially at UPNG, then at the Institute of PNG Studies. From 1978 to 1999, she was Curator of Prehistory at the National Museum. With Director Soroi Eoe and Jack Golson, she put Kuk on its long journey to becoming a World Heritage Site. She also initiated a series of draft booklets about the findings at Kuk, out of which there began to emerge in the early 2000s the Kuk book that we have today.
John Muke »
John Muke is the first Papua New Guinean to be awarded a PhD in archaeology. He returned home with it from University of Cambridge in early 1993 to a lectureship in the Department of Anthropology at UPNG. Born and raised in the Minj area of the middle Wahgi Valley, less than 50 km east of Mount Hagen, he played an important role in negotiating on behalf of the project at crucial phases in its history—when the Kuk Station was closed down at the end of 1990, and when some years later the locals repossessed the station land. He also worked closely with Tim Denham on the nomination of Kuk as a World Heritage Site.
Robbie Robertson »
Robbie Robertson is a former Professor of Development Studies at the University of the South Pacific (Suva), and Professor and Head of Arts & Social Sciences at James Cook University. He is currently Professor and Dean of Arts, Social Sciences & Humanities at Swinburne University of Technology. He has also taught at La Trobe University, The Australian National University and the University of Otago.
He has published widely on Fiji and globalisation, his most recent work being ‘Globalization thinking and the Past’, in Tamar Hodos (ed), The Routledge Handbook of Archaeology and Globalization (2017).
Anna-Karina Hermkens »
Anna-Karina Hermkens is an academic (lecturer, writer and researcher) who specialises in cultural anthropology, ethnographic art, museum collections and gender studies. She worked as a postdoctoral research fellow in Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196). She is currently working at the Department of Anthropology at Macquarie University, and is a visiting research fellow in Professor Nicholas Thomas’s Pacific Presences Project, at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge, UK. Anna-Karina’s aim is to explore and establish an ‘anthropology-in-art’ practice which fuses academic theory and research on gender and art with her ceramics and painting.
Katherine Lepani »
Katherine Lepani is an anthropologist with a research focus on gender and health. She lives in Papua New Guinea and is currently working as gender equity specialist for the PNG Governance Facility, a joint initiative between the Governments of PNG and Australia. She was recently a senior research associate with Professor Margaret Jolly’s Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship project, ‘Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania’ (FL100100196), 2010–2015. Lepani’s book Islands of Love, Islands of Risk: Culture and HIV in the Trobriands (2012), based on her PhD thesis, is the first full-length ethnography that examines the interface between global and local understandings of gender, sexuality and HIV in a Melanesian cultural context.
Hilde Coffé »
Hilde Coffé is an Associate Professor at the Political Science and International Relations Programme at Victoria University of Wellington. Her research interests focus on public opinion, political behaviour and political representation. She has written numerous articles that have been published in leading political science and sociology journals, and has been a visiting fellow at different institutions, including the University of California Berkeley, the University of Sydney and the Åbo Akademi University.
Nic Maclellan »
Nic Maclellan works as a journalist and researcher in the Pacific islands. As a broadcaster and correspondent, he has contributed to Islands Business magazine, Radio Australia, The Guardian, Inside Story, The Contemporary Pacific and other regional media and journals.
He has written widely on the environment, development, decolonisation and demilitarisation in the Pacific, and was awarded the 2015 ‘Outstanding Contribution to the Sector’ award by the Australian Council for International Development (ACFID).
He is co-author of other books on Pacific affairs, including La France dans le Pacifique: de Bougainville à Moruroa (Editions La Découverte, Paris), After Moruroa: France in the South Pacific (Ocean Press, New York and Melbourne) and Kirisimasi (PCRC, Suva).
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John G. Reid »
John G. Reid is a member of the Department of History at Saint Mary’s University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Senior Fellow of the Gorsebrook Research Institute. He is a former co‑editor of Acadiensis: Journal of the History of the Atlantic Region, and is the author of Viola Florence Barnes, 1885–1979: A Historian’s Biography (University of Toronto Press, 2005).
Mel Gurtov »
Mel Gurtov is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Portland State University, Oregon, USA. He has written numerous books and articles on East Asia and US foreign policy and security issues. He is Senior Editor of Asian Perspective.
Peter Van Ness »
Peter Van Ness is a Visiting Fellow in the Department of International Relations, The Australian National University. He has published books on Chinese support for revolution during the Maoist period, market reforms in socialist societies, the human rights debate in Asia, and Asian responses to the Bush Doctrine.
Pierre-Yves Le Meur »
Pierre-Yves Le Meur is a Senior Researcher at the Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Montpellier, France.
Cameron Moore »
Cameron Moore is an Associate Professor at the Australian National Centre for Ocean Resources and Security (ANCORS) at the University of Wollongong. He is also an Associate Professor at The Australian National University. He wrote this book while a Senior Lecturer in the School of Law at the University of New England (UNE), Armidale, NSW. He has previously been the Academic Master of Robb College at UNE. His publications include the book ADF on the Beat: A Legal Analysis of Offshore Enforcement by the ADF (2004) and other articles and chapters on the Australian Defence Force and maritime security. Between 1996 and 2003, Cameron was a Royal Australian Navy Legal Officer. His legal experience includes service at sea as well as advising at the strategic level on a number of ADF deployments, ongoing fisheries and border protection operations and the Tampa incident. Cameron is still an active Navy reservist. He had a brief deployment to Afghanistan in 2010. He completed a PhD thesis through The Australian National University in 2015 on the Australian Defence Force and the Executive Power.
Michel Naepels »
Michel Naepels is Director of Studies (Full Professor) at the French School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS), Director of Research (Senior Researcher) at the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS). He is developing a political anthropology of violence and its deferred effects, based on fieldwork in New Caledonia and Katanga, in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Maggie Brady »
Dr Maggie Brady is an Honorary Associate Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University, where she was formerly an ARC Research Fellow. A social anthropologist who has worked with Aboriginal people in many different regions of Australia, she has long-term research interests in Indigenous alcohol and other drug use, alcohol policy, and the social history of drinking and temperance. She has produced diverse publications on these topics for both academic and community-based audiences, including Heavy metal: the social meaning of petrol sniffing in Australia (Aboriginal Studies Press,1992), The grog book: strengthening Indigenous community action on alcohol (Dept of Human Services and Health,1998), and First taste: how Indigenous Australians learned about grog (Alcohol Education and Rehabilitation Foundation, 2008).
Katherine A. Daniell »
Dr Katherine A. Daniell, BEng(Civil)(Hons)/BA (Adel.), PhD (ANU/AgroParisTech) MIEAust, is a Senior Lecturer in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. Her work focuses on collaborative approaches to policy and action for sustainable development. She has worked in Europe and the Asia-Pacific on projects related to water governance, risk management, sustainable urban development, climate change adaptation, research-policy collaboration and international science, technology and innovation cooperation. Katherine has previously held appointments in the ANU Centre for Policy Innovation, the HC Coombs Policy Forum, the ANU Centre for European Studies and IRSTEA in Montpellier, France.
Adrian Kay »
Professor Adrian Kay, MA (Oxon), PhD (Nottingham), has worked in a series of senior roles at the Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He has previously held academic appointments in the UK and at Griffith University, Queensland. Prior to an academic career, Adrian was a member of the UK Government’s European Fast Stream for several years and spent a year working for the European Commission in Brussels. His major research interests are in the broad areas of comparative and transnational public policy, with a particular empirical focus on health.