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Benjamin Penny »
Benjamin Penny is a professor of Chinese history and religion in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His research examines religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China as well as in medieval times; Taiwanese religion and society, and expatriate society in the treaty ports in the nineteenth century.
Brian McGowran »
Brian McGowran is a retired academic at the University of Adelaide, where he acquired his bachelor of science, doctor of philosophy and doctor of science degrees. As a micropalaeontologist, he consulted to the minerals and fuels exploration industry and was head of the Palaeontology Laboratory at the Geological Survey of South Australia. He has had visiting appointments at Princeton University, the Geological Survey of Austria and the University of Vienna. As an academic biogeohistorian he perches sometimes precariously between the ‘physical’ and the ‘biological’ disciplines and traditions. One outcome was the book Biostratigraphy: Microfossils in Geological Time (2005). Another was publishing studies of his heroes Martin Glaessner, Reg Sprigg and Charles Darwin, each of whom saw himself as both a geologist and a biologist.
Kate Laing »
Dr Kate Laing received her PhD in 2017 from La Trobe University. She has taught Australian history and politics at various universities and has worked as a research assistant at the University of Technology Sydney and a project officer at The Australian National University.
Felicity Jensz »
Felicity Jensz is a historian of British and German colonial history who focuses on interactions between Christian missionaries and Indigenous people, the education of non-European peoples, and cultural memories of colonialism. Since 2008 she has been employed by the Cluster of Excellence for Religion and Politics, at the University of Münster, in Germany. She is the author of German Moravian Missionaries in the British Colony of Victoria, Australia, 1848–1908: Influential Strangers and Missionaries and Modernity: Education in the British Empire, 1830–1910, as well as the co-editor of five collections and the author of numerous journal articles and book chapters.
Raj Balkaran »
Raj Balkaran is a scholar of Sanskrit narrative texts, focusing on the Devī Māhātmya, the Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa and the Sanskrit epics. He is the author of The Goddess and the King in Indian Myth and The Goddess and the Sun in Indian Myth. He teaches at the Oxford Centre for Hindu Studies and hosts the New Books in Indian Religions podcast.
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
Call for Book Proposals – ECR Prize »
ANU College of Law is delighted to announce the ANU Press ECR Prize in Legal Scholarship, awarded annually to the most outstanding and insightful manuscript submitted to ANU Press in any area of law and legal studies by an early career researcher. The prizewinner will receive AU$2,500, have costs
Anthony Ware »
Anthony Ware is an associate professor of international and community development at Deakin University and a former director of the Australia Myanmar Institute. His research, much of which involves Myanmar, focuses on humanitarian and development approaches in conflict-affected situations. He has a particular interest in conflict sensitivity, ‘do no harm’, everyday peace, peacebuilding, and countering violent and hateful extremism with community-led programming. He is the lead author of Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict (2018).
Monique Skidmore »
Monique Skidmore is an honorary professor at Deakin University’s Alfred Deakin Institute. She is an award- and grant-winning Burmese political and medical anthropologist and an expert media commentator. She has published seven books on Myanmar, including Karaoke Fascism: Burma and the Politics of Fear (2004). She convened the Myanmar/Burma Update conference at The Australian National University for eight years.
Anna Kent »
Anna Kent holds a PhD in history from Deakin University and an MA from the University of Melbourne. Anna began her career working with international students sponsored by the Australian government and continues to work in scholarships and international education in research, policy and practice. Anna researches and publishes on international education, international development and foreign policy, and the intersections of these topics.
Meet the Author: Gordon Peake »
Gordon Peake is a writer, podcaster and consultant with extensive experience working at the coalface of international development. His first book, Beloved Land, was an award-winning account of life in Timor-Leste. His latest title Unsung Land, Aspiring Nation: Journeys in Bougainville is out now. 1
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Social Sciences »
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LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures »
LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures Series publishes works on languages and cultures, showcasing the research profile of the sector. Volumes may take the form of monographs or edited collections, and cover one or more languages, in areas such as pedagogy, languages and technology, language
Jérôme Doyon »
Jérôme Doyon is a Junior Professor at the Centre for International Relations (CERI) at Sciences Po, Paris. His research focuses on Chinese politics with a specific interest in the inner working of the Party-State apparatus, as well as elite politics, political youth organizations, and the management of ethnoreligious minorities.