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.
Moshe Rapaport »
Moshe Rapaport is a geographer specialising in environments and societies of Oceania and the Pacific Northwest. He has a PhD from the University of Hawaiʻi at Manoa and is currently International Visiting Academic, School of People, Environment and Planning, Massey University, New Zealand.
Tamara Jacka »
Tamara Jacka is an Emeritus Professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. A feminist social anthropologist, her main research interests are in gender, rural-urban migration and social change in contemporary China. She is the author of Rural Women in Urban China: Gender, Migration, and Social Change (2006), which won the Francis L.K. Hsu prize for best book in East Asian Anthropology. More recent publications include Women, Gender and Rural Development in China (co‑edited with Sally Sargeson, 2011) and Contemporary China: Society and Social Change (co-authored with Andrew B. Kipnis and Sally Sargeson, 2013).
Debby Chan »
Debby Chan is a lecturer in Australian Centre on China in the World and Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University. Her research interests concern China’s economic statecraft and public diplomacy. Her work explains economic setbacks of Belt and Road projects in the host countries. Debby obtained her doctorate in politics from the University of Hong Kong (HKU). She was previously a visiting fellow at the Department of Public and International Affairs at the City University of Hong Kong, and a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at HKU.
Robert Freestone »
Robert Freestone FASSA FAHA is a Professor of Planning in the School of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales and a City Futures Research Centre Fellow. He is a former president of the International Planning History Society and co-author and editor of several books, including Campus (2023), Designing the Global City (2019), Planning Metropolitan Australia (2018), Urban Nation: Australia’s Planning Heritage (2010), Urban Planning in a Changing World (2000), and Spirited Cities (2004).
Bill Randolph »
Bill Randolph FASSA is Professor at the University of New South Wales. At City Futures, he undertakes research specialising in housing policy, housing markets and affordability, urban renewal, and metropolitan planning policy issues. Bill has more than 40 years’ experience as a researcher of housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, nongovernmental, and private sectors. He was the inaugural convenor of the State of Australian Cities conference series and chair of the 2003 State of Australian Cities Conference.
Wendy Steele »
Wendy Steele is Professor of Sustainability and Urban Policy and leads the Critical Urban Governance research program in the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne. Her recent books include Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (2020), Quiet Activism: Climate Action at the Local Scale (2021), and The Sustainable Development Goals and Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda? (2021). She was a chair of the 2021 State of Australasian Cities Conference and President of the Australasian Cities Research Network.
Jennifer Curtin »
Jennifer Curtin is Professor of Politics and Inaugural Director of the Public Policy Institute at the University of Auckland–Waipapa Taumata Rau. She researches New Zealand and Australian politics, and gender politics, policy analysis, and political leadership. She leads the Gender Responsive Analysis and Budgeting project (available from: www.grab-nz.ac.nz) and her research features regularly in a range of media outlets.
Lara Greaves »
Lara Greaves (Ngāpuhi/Pākehā/Tararā) is an Associate Professor in Politics at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington and a Senior Research Fellow in statistics at the University of Auckland–Waipapa Taumata Rau. Lara teaches and researches in the areas of New Zealand, Māori, and Indigenous politics. She is also working in the areas of Māori/Indigenous data sovereignty, electoral law, history, and political participation.
Jack Vowles »
Jack Vowles is a Professor at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, has led the New Zealand Election Study since 1996, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. His research is mainly on New Zealand and comparative electoral behaviour. He is co-author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections After the Great Recession (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Murray Chisholm »
Murray Chisholm completed his PhD in History at ANU in 2019. He is a secondary school teacher, school leader and curriculum developer for the Australian Capital Territory.
Paul C.H. Albers »
Paul C.H. Albers has done extensive research in the Dubois archives, including his book Through Eugène Dubois’ Eyes, Stills of a Turbulent Life (Brill, 2010), and participated in archaeological and palaeontological excavations in the Philippines and Indonesia. His book disclosing over 2,000 letters of The correspondence of Eugène Dubois (1888–1900) is currently in press.
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer »
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer is a Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Research Associate of Leiden University. Her main research focus is on the evolution, extinction, and biogeography of mammals on islands. Other areas of interest include introduced species, brain evolution, and ethnozoology of South Asia. Her books include Evolution of Island Mammals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) and Animals in Stone (Brill, 2008).
Biography Series »
The National Centre for Biography in the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University hosts the Biography Series. The National Centre was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a focus for
Editorial boards »
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John Quiggin »
John Quiggin is a Professor of Economics at the University of Queensland. He is a prominent research economist and commentator on Australian and international economic policy. He has produced over 2000 publications, including ten books and over 300 refereed journal articles, in fields including decision theory, environmental economics and industrial organization. He is an active contributor to Australian public debate in a wide range of traditional and social media.
Dylan Gaffney »
Dylan Gaffney is a Lecturer in the School of Archaeology at the University of Oxford.
Colin Filer »
Colin Filer has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. He has undertaken research on a variety of resource management questions in Melanesia, and especially in Papua New Guinea, over the past 40 years. He is currently an Honorary Professor with the Resources, Environment and Development Group in the Crawford School of Public Policy.
Martin Gascoigne »
Martin Gascoigne was Rosalie Gascoigne’s son and shared her interest in art. He studied history with Manning Clark at The Australian National University and afterwards worked primarily in the Department of Defence on intelligence matters and relations with the United States and South-East Asia.
Deborah Bird Rose »
Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018) was an Australian-based anthropologist who worked with Indigenous Australians and an internationally renowned scholar in environmental humanities, focusing on multi-species ethnography and extinction studies. Her research analysed the entwined issues of social and ecological justice, based on long-term relationships, especially with Indigenous people in the Victoria River region and more broadly in the Northern Territory. She worked with Indigenous Australians on many land claims. This book completes her envisaged trilogy, with Hidden Histories (1991) and Dingo Makes Us Human (1992), both widely acclaimed, respectively winning the Jessie Litchfield and Stanner prizes.
Nicola Francis »
Historian Nicola ‘Niki’ Francis is a Pākehā New Zealander of English, German and Scottish origins. She has lived in the UK, Iraq, Germany, Belgium and Australia and now lives between the sea and the bush in Te Whanganui-a-Tara Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand. Prior to doing her PhD on which this biography is based, she worked for human rights and conservation NGOs, as parish minister and hospice chaplain.
Niki worked for the Australian Dictionary of Biography and contributed to it as an author, and for Ngā Tāngata Taumata Rau, the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. In Canberra she was an active member of the Australian Women’s Archive Project and contributed multiple entries and essays to the online Australian Women’s Register.
Biography »
In response to the current popularity of biography, the Biography Series was established by the National Centre of Biography in 2008 (originally known as ANU.Lives). It aims to publish lively, engaging and provocative biographies and memoirs and nurture best practice in biographical scholarship.
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Terra Australis »
Terra Australis reports the results of archaeological and related research within the south and east of Asia, though mainly Australia, New Guinea and island Melanesia — lands that remained terra australis incognita to generations of prehistorians. Its subject is the settlement of the diverse
Mitchell Browne »
Mitchell Browne is a linguist primarily working on the description and documentation of Warlmanpa and Warumungu, in collaboration with community members in Tennant Creek. He is currently a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Macquarie University and Adjunct Research Fellow at The University of Western Australia.
Foreign investment and industrialisation in Singapore »
Publication date: 1969
Singapore has faced extremely difficult economic conditions in the 1960s, and these will be exacerbated by the withdrawal of the United Kingdom military establishment during the next few years. Foreign investment can play an important role in Singapore's economy and at the same time make profits for the foreign investors. This book explores the problems involved. The aim of the surveys conducted by Dr Hughes and her colleagues during 1966 and 1967 was to see whether the incentives offered by Singapore to foreign investors were suitable and effective, to evaluate the contribution made by foreign investors to the development of manufacturing in Singapore, and to highlight the problems they faced. The most surprising finding of the book is that direct financial incentives to foreign investors are unnecessary. Singapore's principal attraction to outside investors lies in its efficient administration and the provision of public services, while its central geographic situation in Southeast Asia has to some extent offset the smallness of its internal market. The book will be of particular interest to two kinds of reader: manufacturers, administrators, and others concerned with investment in Southeast Asia, and economists everywhere who are studying the economic development of the area, the problems of establishing manufacturing industries in developing countries, and the economics of direct foreign investment.