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.
Colin D. Butler »
Professor Colin Butler is based at the University of Canberra, and is also a Visiting Fellow at NCEPH at the ANU. In 1989, he and his late wife, Susan co-founded BODHI (Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight). In 2014, he co-founded Health-Earth (www.canberra.edu.au/centres/ceraph/H-earth). Colin has published widely, including on health, sustainability, justice, conflict and engaged Buddhism. He was a co-ordinating lead author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. In 2009, he was named one of ‘100 doctors for the planet’ by the French Environmental Health Association. Butler edited Climate Change and Global Health (CABI, 2014). His collaboration with Tony McMichael started in 1993.
Anthony G. Capon »
Professor Anthony G. Capon directs the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University, based in Kuala Lumpur. Tony is a public health physician and an authority on environmental health and health promotion. Since 2008, he has been working with the International Council for Science to develop the global interdisciplinary science programme on health and well-being in the changing urban environment using systems approaches. Tony has held National Health and Medical Research Council and World Health Organization fellowships, as well as leadership roles with the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the International Society for Urban Health.
Jane Dixon »
Jane Dixon is Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University. Her research takes place at the intersection of sociology and public health and focuses on transformations within national food systems and the sociocultural determinants of health transitions. She has advised numerous bodies on adopting a food system perspective, including the International Union on Health Promotion and Education and the Western Pacific Regional Office of WHO. Recent books include When Culture Impacts Health (Elsevier) and Weight of Modernity (Springer). She is currently researching for a new book, The Culinary Footprint (Bloomsbury).
Malcolm Allbrook »
Malcolm Allbrook was born in Uganda and spent his childhood in East Africa, England and the United States before moving to Western Australia with his family as a twelve-year-old. He initially studied Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia and then worked with the Western Australian government, the Kimberley Land Council and the Yamatji Marlpa Land and Sea Council. In 2005 he started a PhD at Griffith University and was awarded his doctorate in history in 2009. After working in Western Australia as a freelance historian and exhibition curator, he moved to Canberra where he was employed in the School of History, The Australian National University (ANU). He is currently Managing Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the National Centre of Biography at ANU.
Dr Anita Strezova »
Dr Anita Strezova is a Byzantine scholar specialising in all aspects of Byzantine history, theology and art history. She has completed a Bachelor in Theology (I Class Honours), Honours Degree of Master of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History and Curatorship at The Australian National University. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Art History, The Australian National University and Research Consultant for various organisations.
Will Steffen »
During his 35-year career in the mountains, Will Steffen, a Canberra resident, has climbed on every continent except Antarctica and has combined rockclimbing in Australia with alpine climbing in New Zealand and expedition climbing in the Himalaya. He was a member of the 1988 Australian Baruntse Expedition. He has a keen interest in the development of Australian mountaineering, and has written two surveys of Australian Himalayan climbing as well as profiles of several leading Australian climbers.
In his academic life, Will Steffen is Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at The Australian National University, Canberra, and also serves as a Climate Commissioner. From 1998 to mid-2004, he served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate change and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability, climate change and the Earth System.
Nicholas Tapp »
Under a Chiang Ching-kuo Research Project, ‘Communal Diasporic Voluntary Public Cultures’, Nicholas Tapp examined the impact of returns of overseas Hmong migrants to their Asian homelands, in collaboration with Dr Gary Yia Lee. They worked in China, Thailand, Laos and Australia, as well as France and the USA. An Emeritus Professor of ANU, Nicholas was mainly based in Shanghai where he continued his research on ethnic issues in China and also assisted East China Normal University in Shanghai to develop a new programme of anthropology.
Dr Nicholas Tapp passed away in October 2015.
Barbara Dawson »
Dr Barbara Dawson worked for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, School of History, in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University from 1999 to 2011. She is now a School Visitor to the School of History, ANU. She has written widely on Australian colonial history.
Maxine Montaigne »
Maxine Montaigne was a Research Officer at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy at The Australian National University and is currently a PhD Student in Economic Research History at the London School of Economics.
Peter Read »
Peter Read is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the Department of History, University of Sydney, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, ANU. Currently he is researching a history of Aboriginal Sydney, and is slowly building the website historyofaboriginalsydney.edu.au.
Frances Peters-Little »
Frances Peters-Little is a Kamilaroi/Uralarai woman and Research Fellow at ANU. Before coming to Canberra, she was a filmmaker for the ABC and left in 1995 after working on more than 18 documentaries as researcher, producer and director. The film she is best known for was Tent Embassy, which screened for the True Stories series on the ABC and won a Sundance Award. She was the Australian producer for the international documentary co-production the Storytellers of the Pacific series. Today Frances Peters-Little spends most of her time writing, and is currently in the final stages of her book entitled The Return of the Noble Savage: By Popular Demand. She is also working on her second book, the official biography on the life of her father, Jimmy Little, which is expected to be published by ABC Books. Her other projects include the ARC Discovery projects Unsettling Histories (2004) and A Historical Study of Indigenous Higher Education Centres in Australia (2002).
Shino Konishi »
Dr Shino Konishi is a fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History, ANU. She has been the editor of Aboriginal History since 2010.
Tiffany Shellam »
Tiffany Shellam is Senior Lecturer in History at Deakin University. She publishes on the history of encounters between Aboriginal people and Europeans in the contexts of exploration, early settlement and mission stations in the nineteenth century. Her book Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal world at King George’s Sound was published by UWA Publishing in 2009.
Ian Keen »
After training and working in the visual arts, Ian Keen gained a BSc in anthropology at University College London (1973) and a PhD in anthropology at The Australian National University (1979). He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in northeast Arnhem Land, the Alligator Rivers region, and McLaren Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia, and in Gippsland, Victoria. He is the author of Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion (Clarendon Press 1994), and Aboriginal Economy and Society (Oxford 2004) as well as many articles in journals and edited books, and he edited Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘Settled’ Australia and other collections of essays. His research interests have included Yolngu kinship and religion, Aboriginal land rights, Aboriginal economy, and language and culture. His current research includes the diversity and typology of Australian Aboriginal kinship systems as part of the Austkin project, and the language of property. He has lectured and supervised postgraduate students at the University of Queensland and The Australian National University, where he is now a Visiting Fellow.
Michael Pickering »
Michael Pickering is Head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program at the National Museum of Australia and leads the Museum’s repatriation program. He has previously worked as Head Curator with the Indigenous Cultures Program of Museum Victoria, Native Title Research Officer with Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Regional Officer with the Northern Territory Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, as an anthropologist with the Northern Land Council, and as a consultant archaeologist and anthropologist.
Christopher Lloyd »
Christopher Lloyd is Professor of Economic History in the School of Business, Economics, and Public Policy at University of New England, Armidale, Australia. During 2007 to 2010 he spent several periods as a Visiting Professor in the Nordwel Centre at Helsinki University working on the worldwide history and diffusion of social democratic welfare capitalism.
Susy Frankel »
Susy Frankel is Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law and Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She was Consultant Expert to Waitangi Tribunal on the WAI 262 flora fauna and indigenous intellectual property claim (Waitangi Tribunal Report, 2011 Ko Aotearoa Tēnei). Susy qualified as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 and as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 1991. She is a member of the Executive Committee of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and of the editorial boards of Journal of World Intellectual Property, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the University of Western Australia Law Review.
Susy has been a visiting Professor at the University of Western Ontario 2012, the University of Iowa 2000, and Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and visitor to the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, 2008.
Her publications include Intellectual Property In New Zealand, 2nd ed Lexis Nexis (2011); Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand Lexis Nexis, (2011); with Meredith Kolsky Lewis International Economic Law and National Autonomy, Cambridge University Press (2010); “Challenging TRIPS – Plus FTAs – the Potential Utility of Non-Violation Complaints” (2009) 12(4) Journal of International Economic Law 1023-1065; “Trade Marks, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Intellectual Property” in G B Dinwoodie and MD Janis (eds) Trade Mark Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Edward Elgar Press, USA, 2007); “The WTO’s Application of ‘the Customary Rules of Interpretation of Public International Law’ to Intellectual Property” (2005) 46 Virginia Journal of International Law 365-428.
Ian D. Clark »
Ian D. Clark is a Professor of Tourism in the Faculty of Business, at Federation University Australia. He completed his PhD in Aboriginal Historical Geography at Monash University in 1992. His areas of interest include Victorian Aboriginal history, Indigenous tourism, the history of tourism, and Victorian toponyms. He has been publishing in Victorian Aboriginal history since 1982. Recent works include I.D. Clark and D. Cahir (eds), The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten Narratives (CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2013); and I.D. Clark, ‘Prettily situated’ at Mungallook: A History of the Goulburn River Aboriginal Protectorate Station at Murchison, Victoria, 1840–1853 (Ballarat Heritage Services Publishing, Ballarat, 2013).
Laura Kostanski »
Dr Laura Kostanski is the CEO and Director of Geonaming Solutions Pty Ltd. Her professional and research interests centre on developing robust geospatial, addressing and geographic naming policies and systems for government and private clients at national and international levels. She is a Churchill Fellow, an Adjunct Research Fellow at Federation University Australia, a Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, a Director of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, has been an Australian representative to the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names and recently was successful in collaborating to receive an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. Laura has been Research Manager and Gazetteer Expert for the CSIRO Spatial Identifier Reference Framework (SIRF) program which examined methods for reengineering gazetteer development, maintenance and output processes with a key focus on Indonesia. In her previous role as Project Manager at the Office of Geographic Names Victoria (OGN Vic) she was involved in policy development, governance and stakeholder engagement in the spatial science domain and was involved in the development of the new Guidelines for Geographic Names Victoria. Laura is currently working on geonaming policy projects for the State Government of New South Wales and the Government of Abu Dhabi.
Shirley Gregor »
Shirley Gregor is Professor of Information Systems and Head of the School of Business and Information Management, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and Head of the National Centre for Information Systems Research at The Australian National University. Her research work has been widely published in many articles in international and national journals and conferences.
Roger Clarke »
Roger Clarke is a consultant on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy. His 40-year career has been variously as professional, manager, consultant, academic and company director.
He has published several hundred papers, over a hundred of them in the refereed literature. Most of them are available on his personal web-site at http://www.rogerclarke.com/, which has accumulated over 40 million hits since it was launched in 1995. His Google citation-counts are at http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=V3s6CWYAAAAJ.
He holds degrees in Information Systems from UNSW, and a doctorate from the ANU. He has been a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society since 1986 and of the international Association for Information Systems since 2012. He is a Visiting Professor at UNSW (in cyberspace law and policy) and at the ANU (in computer science).
In 2009, he was awarded the second-ever Australian Privacy Medal, following Justice Michael Kirby the previous year.
Geoffrey Borny »
Geoffrey Borny is a currently a Visiting Fellow and member of the Emeritus Faculty at The Australian National University having recently retired from the position of Reader and Head of Theatre Studies. His publications include a monograph entitled Modern American Drama and a verse translation into English of Racine’s comedy Les Plaideurs entitled Petty Sessions. His research interests include the study of Shakespearean acting and staging conventions and the works of Tennessee Williams. Besides being an academic, he is both an actor and director and has received a number of awards for his work in these areas.
Yon Machmudi »
Yon Machmudi received his Ph.D from the Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University (ANU) Canberra in 2007, specializing in Islam in Southeast Asia. He then joined as a researcher the Transliteration Project at the Department of History, National University of Singapore (2005-2006) and the contemporary Islam in Southeast Asia Project at ANU (2006). He conducted a research on the Spiritual Journey Project in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (2008-2009). His current research is on the Perceptions of Indonesia in the Middle East (2010-2011) and the Decline of Kyais’ Authority in Pesantren (2011-2012). He is now a lecturer at the Arabic Studies Program, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia and the head of the research and training department at the Central for Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Indonesia. His recent publications are “The emergence of New Santri in Indonesia, Journal of Indonesian Islam, vol. 02, number 01, June 2008, “Influences of Tasawwuf toward Ikhwanul Muslimin Movement (1928-1949),” Journal of Arabia, vol. 11 no. 22 October 2008-March 2009, Islamising Indonesia: the Rise of Jemaah Tarbiyah and the Prosperous Justice Party, Anu E-press 2008 and “Intellectuals or Housemaids: the Perception of Indonesia in Saudi Arabia” Journal of Arabia, vol. 12 no. 22 March 2009-October 2009.
Aurelia George Mulgan »
Professor Aurelia George Mulgan graduated BA Auckland, BA Hons, and MA Victoria University of Wellington. After graduate studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and Tokyo University, Professor George Mulgan completed a PhD at ANU in Japanese Politics. Prior to joining the University of New South Wales in 1985, she was a Research Fellow in the Australia-Japan Research Centre at ANU. In 1990 she was awarded the J.G. Crawford Award at ANU for outstanding work in Japanese political economy, in 2001 an Ohira Memorial Prize for her book on Japanese agricultural politics, and in 2010 the Toshiba Prize for the best article published in the British Association of Japanese Studies journal Japan Forum. In 1989-90, she held a Japan Foundation Fellowship for the study of US-Japan relations, in 1993, an Advanced Research Fellowship at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations, and in 1994-95 an Abe Fellowship for work on Japan and international peacekeeping. She has held visiting research or teaching positions at the Research Institute for Peace and Security in Tokyo, the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, Nanzan University, the University of Tsukuba and The Australian National University. In 2002 she was a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU and in 2005, a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia. In 2004, 2009 and 2013 she was awarded three-year Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants for work on Japanese political economy.
Professor George Mulgan has published on many aspects of Japanese politics, foreign and defence policies. She is the author of The Politics of Agriculture in Japan (Routledge 2000), Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform (ANU Press 2002), Japan’s Interventionist State: MAFF and the Agricultural Policy Regime (Routledge/Curzon 2005), Japan’s Agricultural Policy Regime (RoutledgeCurzon 2006), Power and Pork: A Japanese Political Life (ANU Press 2006) and Ozawa Ichiro and Japanese Politics: Old Versus New (Routledge 2014). She is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
Jane Simpson »
Jane Simpson is Chair of Indigenous Linguistics and Head of the School of Language Studies at The Australian National University. She works on Australian Aboriginal languages, especially syntax and semantics, but also place-names, dictionaries, land-claims, kinship systems, and reconstructing what languages were like from old written sources. She is currently working on a longitudinal study of Aboriginal children learning their first language. Other projects include a computational grammar of Indonesian, work on intercultural communication, and Australian English lexicons.