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.
Bettina Arndt »
Bettina Arndt trained as a clinical psychologist before becoming well known as one of Australia’s first sex therapists. As editor of Forum magazine, she taught medical students, doctors and other professionals and worked in the media educating the public about this fascinating subject.
She then moved on to writing about broader social issues, working as a columnist and feature writer for leading newspapers and magazines. As a respected social commentator she was invited onto government advisory committees covering issues from family law to childcare and ageing.
In 2010 she published the best-selling book, The Sex Diaries, based on research involving couples keeping diaries showing how they negotiate their sex supply. The sequel – What Men Want – was published in late 2010. She is currently enjoying speaking about her new research to audiences across Australia and overseas.
Peter Drake »
Peter Drake graduated from the University of Melbourne in 1962. Heinz Arndt supervised his PhD studies at The Australian National University which were completed in 1966. In his career as an academic economist Peter became expert on monetary systems and financial development, working on Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia and the Pacific island economies. His books include Financial Development in Malaya and Singapore (1969); Money, Finance and Development (1980); Currency, Credit and Commerce: Early Growth in Southeast Asia (2004). Peter was Professor of Economics, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Principal of the University of New England, Armidale, before becoming the founding Vice-Chancellor of Australian Catholic University in 1991. In 2003 he was appointed a Member of The Order of Australia in recognition of his contributions to university leadership, the study of economics and the delivery of overseas aid.
Howard Morphy »
Howard Morphy is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Research School of Humanities at The Australian National University.
Prior to returning to ANU in 1997, he held the chair in Anthropology at University College London. Before that he spent ten years as a curator at the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford. He is an anthropologist of art and visual anthropologist.
He has written extensively on Australian Aboriginal art with a monograph of Yolngu Art, Ancestral Connections (Chicago 1991), Aboriginal Art (Phaidon, 1998) and most recently Becoming Art: Exploring Cross-Cultural Categories (Berg, 2007). He has also produced a pioneering multimedia biography The Art of Narritjin Maymuru with Pip Deveson and Katie Hayne (ANU Press 2005). He has conducted extensive fieldwork with the Yolngu people of Northern Australia, and collaborated on many films with Ian Dunlop of Film Australia and has curated many exhibitions including Yingapungapu at the National Museum of Australia. With Frances Morphy he helped prepare the Blue Mud Bay Native Title Claim which as a result of the 2008 High Court judgement recognised Indigenous ownership of the waters over the intertidal zone under the Land Rights (Northern Territory) Act.
His involvement in e-research and in the development of museum exhibitions reflects his determination to make humanities research as accessible as possible to wider publics and to close the distance between the research process and research outcomes.
David W. Lovell »
David Lovell is a Professor of Politics and Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, at the University of New South Wales at ADFA. During 2004 he was Acting Rector of UNSW@ADFA, and in 2008 he was Deputy Rector. He gained his doctorate in the field of the History of Ideas, and his major research interests are in the problems of democratisation. In 1992 he was the Australian Parliamentary Political Science Fellow, and in 1993 was Visiting Professor at the Russian Diplomatic Academy in Moscow. He is on the Advisory Board of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas, and is co-editor of its journal, The European Legacy. He is also a member of the Australian Committee of the Council for Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific (CSCAP). He initiated the University’s links with the Shanghai Institute for International Studies in 2001, and has forged university links with Manipal University, India, and Airlangga University, Indonesia. During 2005 he was a Visiting Fellow at ANU National Europe Centre and the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, and concurrently held a visiting professorship at the European Information Centre in Berlin. In 2005 he was invited to the EU’s ‘A Soul for Europe’ initiative in Budapest, and in 2006 he spoke at the Beijing Forum on harmony and governance. He has written or edited more than a dozen books on topics including Australian politics, communist and post-communist systems, and the history of ideas. His most recent publications include: The Transition: Evaluating the postcommunist experience (edited, 2002); Asia-Pacific Security: Policy Challenges (edited, 2003; second edn 2004); Freedom and Equality in Marx’s Utopia (edited, special issue of The European Legacy, 2004); Our Unswerving Loyalty: A documentary survey of relations between the Communist Party of Australia and Moscow, 1920-1940 (with K. Windle, edited, 2008); and Protecting Civilians during Violent Conflict: Theoretical and practical issues for the 21st Century (with I. Primoratz, edited, forthcoming 2011).
John Gillespie »
John Gillespie is a Professor in Law and the Director of the Asia-Pacific Business Regulation Group at Monash University. His research interests include Asian comparative law, law and development theory and ethnographic research. His current work concerns land dispute mediation in Cambodia and Vietnam. He has also consulted for a wide range of international donors such as the World Bank, UNDP, IFC, Danida and Asia Foundation on legal development projects in East Asia. Recent book publications include (with Fu Hualing eds) Resolving Land Disputes in East Asia: Exploring the Limits of Law, 2014; (with Michael Dowdle and Imelda Maher eds.,) Asian Capitalism and the Regulation of Competition: Towards a Regulatory Geography of Global Competition Law ‘Competition, Regulation and Capitalism Lessons from Asia’ (2013); and (with Pip Nicholson eds.,) Law and Development and the Global Discourses of Legal Transfers (2012).
Wee Ho Lim »
Born in Sarawak, Wee Ho Lim holds a first class honours degree in Engineering from the Nanyang Technological University and is currently undertaking a PhD degree at The Australian National University in Ecohydrology and Environmental Physics.
Michael L. Roderick »
Michael Roderick was born in Queensland and holds a B.App.Sc (Surveying) from the Queensland University of Technology, a post-graduate diploma in Geographic Information Systems from the University of Queensland and a PhD in Remote Sensing from Curtin University of Technology. He has been a researcher at The Australian National University since 1996. His research speciality is water, on topics ranging from plant cells to catchment hydrology to the global water cycle.
Gary Waters »
Gary Waters retired from the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) as an Air Commodore in 2002, worked as a senior public servant in Defence for four years, and has worked with Jacobs Australia as Head of Strategy for the past five years.
Between 1985 and 1997, Gary completed his staff college training in the UK, taught at the RAAF Staff College, was a visiting fellow to The Australian National University, ran the Air Power Studies Centre, and served as Director of Capability Planning in the Australian Defence Headquarters.
From 1998 to 2005, Gary served as Head of the Australian Defence Staff (London), as Head of the Theatre Headquarters Project, and finally as Director General Operation Safe Base. As a public servant he was the inaugural Assistant Secretary Knowledge Planning in Defence, and then moved to be Assistant Secretary Information Strategy and Futures within the Office of the Chief Information Officer.
Since 2005 Gary has been Head of Strategy for Jacobs, in which capacity he also consults in the principal areas of strategy, capability development, cyber security, risk management, preparedness and logistics.
He has written thirteen books on doctrine, strategy, cyber security, and military history. His latest two books are ‘Australia and Cyber Warfare’ (with Professor Des Ball and Ian Dudgeon, 2008), and ‘Optimising Australia’s Response to the Cyber Challenge’ (with Air Vice-Marshal John Blackburn, 2011).
He is a Fellow of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (graduating with majors in accounting and economics); a CPA; a graduate of the UK’s Royal Air Force Staff College; a graduate of the University of New South Wales, with an MA (Hons) in history; a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors; and a graduate of The Australian National University with a PhD in political science and international relations.
He has been a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors, a Vice President of the United Services Institute, and Inaugural Board Member and Treasurer of the Kokoda Foundation.
John Minns »
John Minns is the Director of the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies and Associate Professor in Politics and International Relations at The Australian National University.
Barry Carr »
Barry Carr is Adjunct Professor at The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) at ANU and Senior Fellow of the Institute of Latin American Studies at La Trobe University. A historian of modern Latin America, he has researched and published widely on the twentieth century development of Mexico and Cuba. His most recent book is (with Jeffrey Webber) The Latin American Left: Cracks in the Empire (2013).
Juliet Pietsch »
Juliet Pietsch is an Associate Professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
Paul Malone »
Paul Malone was born in Ireland and migrated to Australia in the early 1960s. After graduating in Economics from Sydney University he worked for a year as a graduate clerk in the Federal Department of Trade and Industry. Bored with the job, he left to take up a cadetship at the Sydney Morning Herald. On completion of his cadetship he worked as a general reporter and finance journalist. He moved to Melbourne in 1976 to work for The Age and then the Australian Financial Review. He was promoted to the AFR’s Canberra Press Gallery bureau and in 1985 was appointed political correspondent of The Canberra Times, where he worked for five years. In 1990 he joined the Australian Public Service and worked in ministers’ offices. He returned to The Canberra Times in 2004 to report on the public service. He retired from full time work in 2008 but continues to write a weekly column for the Sunday Canberra Times. He has a Master of Management - Industry Policy from the Australian National University. ANU E-Press published Paul’s book Australian Department Heads Under Howard: Career Paths and Practice in 2006 Paul has an on-going interest in Borneo, first travelling in and around the island in 1974, and returning in recent years, writing articles on logging and development issues and the jungle nomads, the Penan. Independent publishing house, The Strategic Information and Research Development Centre (SIRD) Petaling Jaya, Malaysia published Paul’s book The Peaceful People The Penan and their Fight for the Forest in 2014. ISBN: 9789670630366 (PB)
Tracey Arklay »
Dr Tracey Arklay is the Program Director of the Graduate Certificate in Policy Analysis (GCPA) and a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. Tracey's research on parliamentary practice and disaster management has seen her work extensively with key Queensland government agencies. Dr Arklay’s research incorporates her interest in translating practice into research. She has written on state and federal politics, electoral analysis, parliamentary practice, policy capacity, disaster management and political leadership. She has published two books and one internationally cited monograph. One of her recent publications examined policy making in Australian states: Arklay, T (with John Phillimore), (2015) ‘Policy and policy analysis in Australian states’ (eds. Head, B and Crowley, K), Policy Analysis in Australia, Bristol: Policy Press.
Darrell Tryon »
Darrell Tryon was educated in New Zealand at the University of Canterbury, and later at The Australian National University. Darrel’s research interests include Austronesian linguistics; pidgins and creoles; language contact and language change; vernacular education; language endangerment and globalisation.
Miranda Forsyth »
Miranda Forsyth is a Research Fellow in the Regulatory Institutions Network at the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. In February 2011 she commenced a three year ARC Discovery funded project to investigate the impact of intellectual laws on development in Pacific Island countries. Prior to coming to the ANU, Miranda was a senior lecturer in criminal law at the law school of the University of the South Pacific, based in Port Vila, Vanuatu. The broad focus of Miranda’s research is investigating the possibilities and challenges of the inter-operation of state and non-state justice systems. She also works on the issue of how best to localize or vernacularize the foreign legal norms and procedures, and adopts a socio-legal approach to regulation.
Adam Shoemaker »
Adam Shoemaker is a former Professor and Dean of Arts at The Australian National University in Canberra. He came to Australia from Canada in the 1980s and has had a succession of public, international and academic positions since that time, including three years spent with the Delegation of the Commission of the European Communities. He has written or edited several books dealing in whole or part with Indigenous cultures and race relations, including Paperbark (1990), Mudrooroo: A Critical Study (1993), A Sea Change: Australian Writing and Photography (1998), David Unaipon’s Legendary Tales of the Australian Aborigines (2001) and the French-language work Les Aborigènes d’Australie, published by Gallimard in November 2002.
Natasha Stacey »
Dr Natasha Stacey holds a PhD in anthropology from the Northern Territory University. Over the last 15 years she worked on natural resource management research and development projects across the Pacific Islands and eastern Indonesia, and more recently northern Australia, Timor Leste and Malaysia.
She spent most of the 1990s conducting research into the social, cultural and economic drivers of Bajo and other Indonesian traditional fishing activity in Australian waters. During 2000- 2005 she was employed as a Community Assessment and Participation Specialist on a Global Environment Facility-funded Pacific International Waters Project based at the headquarters of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme in Samoa. For the last six years she has worked as a Research Fellow at Charles Darwin University and currently holds a Senior Research Fellow position in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods at Charles Darwin University. Recent research projects include development of alternative livelihoods for communities in the Northern Territory and West Timor, Indonesia; building local capacity for whale shark conservation in eastern Indonesia; designing a participatory monitoring framework to support joint management of Parks in the Northern Territory, and improving coastal and marine livelihoods, and fisheries management in the Arafura-Timor Seas region. Her research interests include
Social, cultural and economic issues impacting on environmental values, natural resources and protected areas
Approaches for multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary research for improved community-based resource management
Participatory planning processes and facilitation, social impact assessment
Bajo and Indonesian fishing activity in the Arafura and Timor seas
Maritime and environmental anthropology.
Annette Michaux »
Annette Michaux is General Manager, Social Policy and Research at The Benevolent Society, a large non-profit organisation with the purpose of creating caring and inclusive communities and a just society. Annette’s role at The Benevolent Society is to drive the organisation’s focus on evidence-informed practice, research and social policy.
With a professional background in social work and adult education, Annette has held a number of senior policy and operational positions in both government and non-profits. She was the Executive Officer of the NSW Child Protection Council and a member of the senior policy team at the NSW Commission for Children and Young People. Earlier in her career Annette worked as a child welfare officer and ran a large inner-city community centre in Sydney.
Annette is involved in a number of board and committees promoting evidence informed practice including:
the Australian Social Policy Association;
Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth’s (ARACY) Knowledge Brokering Network;
the NSW NGO Research Forum;
the Australasian Evaluation Society;
Chairing of the Australasian Evaluation Society’s 2011 International Conference.
Ann Sanson »
Ann Sanson is a professor in Paediatrics at the University of Melbourne and the Network Coordinator for the Australian Research Alliance for Children and Youth (ARACY). She is a developmental psychologist with particular expertise in longitudinal research – she plays a leading role in both the 25-year Australian Temperament Project and Growing up in Australia (the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children). Her previous positions include Acting Director of the Australian Institute of Family Studies, and she currently sits on a number of national advisory committees. Her work with ARACY has a strong focus on facilitating knowledge exchange amongst researchers, policy makers and practitioners in order to promote the wellbeing of children and youth. She is a fellow of the Australian Psychological Society and has over 180 publications.
Gabriele Bammer »
Gabriele Bammer is a professor at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at The Australian National University and a research fellow at the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. Her main interest is effective ways of bringing different disciplinary and practice perspectives together to tackle major social issues, including knowledge brokering to bridge the research-policy/ practice gap. She is seeking to develop more formal processes for doing this by establishing a new specialisation – Integration and Implementation Sciences. In 2001 she was the Australian representative on the inaugural Fulbright New Century Scholars Program, which targets ‘outstanding research scholars and professionals’. She has more than 100 peer-reviewed publications.
Kate Barclay »
Kate Barclay researches the international political economy of food, focusing particularly on tuna fisheries in the Asia Pacific Region. The main themes of her work include:
The socially embedded aspects of global tuna commodity chains affecting the governance of these industries, including for sustainability
Economic development opportunities from tuna resources for Pacific Island countries
Consequences of modernisation through fisheries, including effects on ethnic identities and nature-society interactions
Histories of tuna fisheries development, particularly in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea, and Pacific Island countries
The international relations of fisheries management
Kate has acted as researcher for several reports for governments and international organisations, including: 1) a study of global canned tuna trade flows used by WWF in developing their international campaigns (2008), 2) an overview of economic opportunities in fisheries and aquaculture for the Solomon Islands Government trade policy (commissioned by the United Nations Development Programme, 2008); and 3) a review of the development gains from a multilateral fisheries treaty (the Federated States of Micronesia Agreement, commissioned by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, 2007).
Her major publications have included a book on modernization and ethnic identity issues surrounding A Japanese Joint Venture in the Pacific (Routledge 2008), a survey of economic development from tuna industries in six Pacific Island countries in Capturing Wealth From Tuna (ANU Press, 2007), and a feature-length documentary of southern bluefin tuna industries in Australia and Japan Rich Fish (self-published, 2004). Her recent work looks at tuna supply chains, for canned and smoked tuna, and for sashimi markets, considering the role of culturally and historically shaped practices as they affect international attempts to regulate fishing.
Kate teaches in the International Studies Program at the University of Technology Sydney.
Anne Tiernan »
Anne Tiernan is an Associate Professor in the Centre for Governance and Public Policy at Griffith University. She is Director of postgraduate and executive programs in policy analysis and public administration in Griffith’s School of Government and International Relations. Tiernan's research interests include: policy advice, executive governance, policy capacity, federalism and intergovernmental coordination. She is author of several books including: Lessons in Governing: A Profile of Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff and The Gatekeepers: Lessons from Prime Ministers’ Chiefs of Staff (both with R.A.W. Rhodes, Melbourne University Publishing, 2014), Learning to be a Minister: Heroic Expectations, Practical Realities (with Patrick Weller, Melbourne University Press, 2010) and Power Without Responsibility: Ministerial Staffers in Australian Governments from Whitlam to Howard (UNSW Press, 2007). Tiernan is a member of the Member of the Public Records Review Committee of the Queensland State Archives and serves on the Board of Directors of St Rita’s College Ltd. Between 2008 and 2012 she was a member of the Board of Commissioners of the Queensland Public Service Commission. Tiernan consults regularly to Australian governments at all levels.
Jennifer Menzies »
Jennifer Menzies is a Director with the consultancy Policy Futures and a Commissioner with the Commonwealth Grants Commission. A former senior executive and Cabinet Secretary within the Queensland Department of the Premier and Cabinet, she has over 20 years’ experience in both state and commonwealth governments. From 2007 to 2009 she was the inaugural Secretary for the Council for the Australian Federation. She consults in the field of public policy and governance and has published in the fields of caretaker conventions, federalism and intergovernmental relations. She is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow with the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University.
Jules Wills »
Dr Wills is Director International Alumni at the University of Canberra: he holds a Graduate Diploma in Legal Studies from CCAE, and a Masters Degree in Public Administration and PhD in Public Sector Management from UC.
Jules served 23 years in the Royal Australian Air Force and 13 years in the Australian Public Service before moving fulltime to UC in 2000.
During several years as a UC Senior Lecturer in business and government, he served as Director of the Center for Research in Public Sector Management and Academic Director of the National Institute for Governance. He was also Convenor of the Command, Leadership and Management and RAN MBA programs for the Australian Command and Staff Course, Australian Defence College at Weston, ACT, and Convenor of the Doctorate in Business Administration.
In 2003, he founded the China Management Studies Unit and became the Director, Professional Management Programs in 2004 where he revamped the PMP programs, expanded its APS operations and developed a comprehensive network of international training connections.
He was appointed Director of the newly combined Marketing and International group in November 2007 and up to March 2011 in this role was responsible for domestic and international marketing and recruiting, brand and publishing, centralised management of transnational education for UC and coordinating international training at UC and overseas.
Jules became Director International Alumni in 2011.
John Halligan »
John Halligan is a Research Professor of Government and Public Administration, School of Business and Government, University of Canberra, Australia.
His research interests are comparative public management and governance, specifically public sector reform, performance management and government institutions. He specialises in the Anglophone countries of Australia and New Zealand, and for comparative purposes, Canada and the United Kingdom. Current studies are Corporate Governance in the Public Sector, Performance Management, and a comparative analysis of public management.
John Halligan’s recent co-authored books are Managing Performance: International Comparisons, Routledge, London, 2007; and Parliament in the 21st Century, Melbourne University Press, 2007.