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.
Social Sciences »
The Social Sciences board recommends for publication by ANU Press high-quality manuscripts in the social science disciplines of Politics, International Relations, History, Demography, Sociology and Policy Studies. It is particularly interested in work that will advance the University’s goal of
LCNAU Studies in Languages and Cultures »
The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) is a professional association of academics working within the Australian university sector. Its mission is to promote the value of tertiary language studies and to foster a strong research and publication culture within the
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.
Chloé Froissart »
Chloé Froissart is a Professor of political science at the National Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations (Inalco) in Paris and former Director of the Sino-French Centre in Social Sciences at Tsinghua University in Beijing. Her research focuses on Chinese politics, state-society relations and the evolution of the Chinese regime. She has a specific interest in authoritarian citizenship, which she investigates through mobilisations, public policies and forms of participation and representation, with a particular focus on labour and environmental politics.
Agenda- A Journal of Policy Analysis and Reform »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing in 2021. Agenda is a refereed, ECONLIT-indexed and RePEc-listed journal of the College of Business and Economics, The Australian National University. Launched in 1994, Agenda provides a forum for debate on public policy, mainly (but not exclusively) in
Karen Sullivan »
Dr Karen Sullivan is a Senior Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of Queensland, Australia. She is the author of Mixed Metaphors: Their Use and Abuse, a fun and accessible introduction to metaphor combinations with numerous examples from Australian politicians, and has written two other books and numerous papers. Her research examines figurative language, word meanings, and how meanings change over time.
Glenda Harward-Nalder »
Dr Glenda Harward-Nalder is a descendant of the Ngugi People of Mulgumpin (Moreton Island), Quandamooka Nation. She holds a PhD (Creative Industries, Queensland University of Technology), MA (Griffith University), and BA (University of Queensland) with additional undergraduate and graduate qualifications in Cultural Studies, Literature, Visual Arts, Digital Media Production, and Education. As a member of the Minjerribah Moorgumpin Elders Council, and the Quandamooka Yoolooburrabee Aboriginal Corporation, she has led language retrieval and revitalisation projects, with the support of community linguists and language institutes. She has consulted to Education Queensland and the Queensland Curriculum and Assessment Authority on Australian Languages curriculum design and implementation.
Robert J. Foster »
Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has published widely on globalisation, nation making, corporations, commercial media and material culture. His books include Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea (2002); Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea (2008); and Art, Artifact, Commodity: Perspectives on the P.G.T. Black Collection (2017, co-edited with Kathryn H. Leacock).
Cameo Dalley »
Cameo Dalley is a settler descendant and anthropologist. Her multidisciplinary research has explored Indigenous identities, belonging in contemporary Australia, native title, pastoral economies, and contemporary agribusiness. She maintains research relationships with Lardil, Yangkaal and Kaiadilt peoples in the Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria, and groups in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her first book What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community (2021) was published by Berghahn. She has held academic appointments at The Australian National University, Deakin University, and the University of Melbourne, where she is a senior lecturer in the Indigenous studies program. She is a board member of the Journal of Australian Studies.
Ashley Barnwell »
Ashley Barnwell is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in sociological aspects of emotions, memory, and narrative, and the role of life writing, archives, and literature in sociological research. She is an ARC DECRA fellow working on the project ‘Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia’. This project aims to investigate the inherited family secrets, stories and memories that inform Australians’ understandings of colonial history. Ashley publishes across sociology, history and literary studies, and is co-author of the book Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Australian Literature (with Joseph Cummins, 2019). She is a settler descendant who was born on Birrpai Country. In an ongoing collaboration with Birrpai historian John Heath, she has written about local and family histories of Indigenous-settler relations in the journal Life Writing, and the book, Burrawan: The Desecration and Resurrection of Lake Innes (2023).
Margaret Jolly »
Margaret Jolly is an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellow and Professor in Anthropology, Gender and Cultural Studies and Pacific Studies in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific. She is an historical anthropologist who has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.
Mary Eagle »
Mary Eagle is the author of a number of books about Australian art. Born in 1944, her BA degree was in History as well as Fine Arts and her PhD thesis was a history based on situations represented visually both by Indigenous Australians and European-Australians. Greg Dening’s ethnographic teaching at the University of Melbourne was the key for her approach to art criticism, art history and curatorship. After eighteen years as a curator at the National Gallery of Australia, seven as the Head of Australian Art, the same influence led her to join The Australian National University’s Centre for Cross-Cultural Research and Humanities Research Centre.
Ben Hillman »
Ben Hillman is Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and a specialist in politics, public policy and public administration in China. Ben is the author or editor of several books on China, including Patronage and Power (2014), and Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang (2016). He is also Editor of The China Journal — the world’s number one-ranked journal in China Studies. In 2023 he is editor of the China Story Yearbook, which is published by ANU Press.
Chien-wen Kou »
Chien-wen Kou is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has been serving as the Director of the Institute of International Relations in the same university since August 2017. His primary research interests include Chinese politics, political elites, and comparative communist studies. He has written or coedited Elites and Governance in China (2013), Choosing China’s Leaders (2014), The Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific (2022), and several other books in Chinese.
Lior Rosenberg »
Lior Rosenberg is a political sociologist specialising in contemporary China. He is a teaching associate at the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include Chinese rural society, China’s public administration and the urbanisation of rural China.
Law »
The Law editorial board of ANU Press welcomes thoughtful full-length monographs and edited collections (around 80,000–100,000 words), as well as shortform books (around 30,000–40,000 words), in all areas of law and legal studies. We welcome proposals from scholars based anywhere in the world. We
Melissa Demian »
Melissa Demian is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews. For over 20 years she has conducted research in rural and urban Papua New Guinea and published on subjects including village courts and property disputing, customary law, kinship and social organisation, the country’s colonial and legal history, and the intersection of gender and urbanisation. She is the author of, most recently, In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Julien Louys »
Julien Louys is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. His research has focused on examining the mammal fossil record at several scales, from phenotypes, whole organisms, to entire communities to provide the most holistic understanding of the interaction between species, including humans, and their environments. He recently completed an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on Sumatra’s role in ancient human movements and evolution.
ANU Historical Journal II »
The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic history journal of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. It is a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987. Contributors to
Raghbendra Jha »
Raghbendra Jha (PhD, Columbia, FWIF) was Professor of Economics and Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He published widely in the areas of development economics, public economics, welfare economics and macroeconomics with a country specialisation in India. He taught at Columbia University and Williams College in the US, Queen’s University in Canada, University of Warwick in the UK, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
Michael Wood »
Michael Wood has over 40 years of experience working as an anthropologist in the Western Province of PNG. Much of Wood’s research in PNG has been concerned with the politics and policies of resource development, especially in the forestry sector.
Rosita Henry »
Rosita Henry is a Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University. Her research concerns the relationships between people and places in Australia and the Pacific.
Anna Hayes »
Anna Hayes is a senior lecturer in International Relations, James Cook University. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the East Asia Security Centre.
Anne Ford »
Anne Ford is an Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program at the University of Otago.