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.
Staff »
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Australian Federal Election »
The Australian Federal Election series, which began with the election of 1987, has since the election of 2010 been published by the ANU Press. In this series, leading scholars identify and analyse the changing nature of Australian federal election campaigns. These publications have become an
Garth Pratten »
Garth Pratten is an Associate Professor specialising in the history of command and military operations in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. He was a member of the team led by Professor David Horner that produced the Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post–Cold War Operations.
Miwa Hirono »
Dr Miwa Hirono is an associate dean at the College of Global Liberal Arts and a professor at the Graduate School of International Relations, Ritsumeikan University. Prior to her current appointment, she held a Research Councils UK (RCUK) Research Fellowship at the University of Nottingham, and taught at The Australian National University, where she was awarded a PhD in International Relations, the University of Cambridge, the University of Nottingham, and the University of Canterbury in New Zealand. She was also a Fulbright Visiting Fellow at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at Harvard Kennedy School.
Carmel O’Shannessy »
Carmel O’Shannessy is Associate Professor in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at The Australian National University. Her research is in language contact and acquisition, including the emergence of Light Warlpiri, an Australian mixed language, and the language development of First Nations children in Central Australia.
James Gray »
James Gray is a linguist interested in Central Australian First Nations languages, the syntax–semantics interface and the relevance of Australian languages for linguistic theory more generally. He holds a PhD from The Australian National University, where he was supervised by a panel chaired by Jane Simpson, and was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Western Sydney University.
Denise Angelo »
Denise Angelo is a researcher in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at The Australian National University and a sessional lecturer in the Master of Indigenous Languages Education (MILE) program at the University of Sydney. She works with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in different language ecologies on their traditional languages and on learning English as an additional language.
Tanya Jakimow »
Tanya Jakimow is a Professor of Anthropology in the School of Culture, History and Language, The Australian National University.
Margaret Jolly »
Margaret Jolly AM, FASSA is an Emerita Professor at The Australian National University and a past Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow.
Sonia Palmieri »
Sonia Palmieri is an Associate Professor and head of the Department of Pacific Affairs in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.
Ramona Vijeyarasa »
Ramona Vijeyarasa is a Professor of Law at the University of Technology Sydney.
Adriana Díaz »
Adriana Díaz PhD is director of teaching and learning and senior lecturer in Spanish and Latin American Studies in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland.
Barbara E. Hanna »
Barbara E. Hanna PhD is French majors convenor and senior lecturer in French in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland, where she also supervises doctoral research in second language teaching and learning.
Samantha Disbray »
Samantha Disbray PhD is a senior lecturer in endangered languages and convenor of the Graduate Certificate in Indigenous Language Revitalisation at the University of Queensland.
Anna Mikhaylova »
Anna Mikhaylova PhD is Russian major convenor and lecturer in Russian and applied linguistics in the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Queensland.
Grace Yue Qi »
Grace Yue Qi PhD FHEA is a senior lecturer in Chinese studies and applied linguistics in the School of Humanities, Media and Creative Communication at Massey University in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Australian Journal of Biography and History »
The Australian Journal of Biography and History is an initiative of the National Centre of Biography (NCB) in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University. The NCB was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a
Stephen D Morey »
Stephen D Morey is an Adjunct in the Department of Languages and Cultures, La Trobe University, researching Indigenous languages of South East Australia as well as documenting endangered languages of Northeast India.
Luise Hercus »
Luise Hercus (1926–2018) was a leading researcher in the study of Australian Indigenous languages, and in the documentation of the Indigenous languages and their songs in Victoria.
Edward Ryan »
Edward (Ted) Ryan is an ethnohistorian based in north-west Victoria. He works across disciplines with a particular focus on ethnobotany.
Grace Koch »
Grace Koch is an ethnomusicologist, audiovisual archivist and researcher in Australian Aboriginal land rights and native title.
Paula Jane Byrne »
Dr Paula Jane Byrne is Adjunct in humanities at Western Sydney University. She has previously taught at UNSW, Macquarie University, Murdoch University and ANU, and held research positions at Sydney University, ANU, Australian National Library and University of New England. In 2024, she was was Visiting Scholar at the State Library of New South Wales. Paula’s interests are in colonising mentalities, law and the courts in the colonies, and she has published widely in these fields, including Criminal Law and Colonial Subject: New South Wales 1810–1830 (1993) and Judge Advocate Ellis Bent: Letters and Diaries 1809–1811 (2012).
Patrick Guinness »
Patrick Guinness (MPhil, University of Sydney, PhD, Australian National University) helped develop an indigenous language and culture program in a school serving the Maututu Nakanai of West New Britain. He was an agricultural field officer in the island’s initial years of oil palm development. He has been a university lecturer and researcher for over four decades, first in Indonesia, and then in Australia, where he convened the Development Studies program at the Australian National University for many years and taught and supervised students in international development, urban anthropology, comparative religion and indigenous worldviews.
Sonia Khosa »
Dr Sonia Khosa is a Lecturer at the University of Sydney, specialising in regulatory frameworks and cross-border financial governance. Before her academic career, she served as Assistant General Manager (Law) at the SEBI, where she played a key role in enforcement, regulatory policy and international cooperation. Her work in SEBI’s Office of the Chair and International Affairs involved active engagement with global regulators such as the US Securities and Exchange Commission and the Monetary Authority of Singapore, as well as with IOSCO. Drawing on her experience at the intersection of law, policy and international finance, Dr Khosa brings unique insight into the dynamics of regulatory collaboration.
Ligang Song »
Ligang Song is Professor of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.