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.
Alan Rumsey »
Alan Rumsey first came to Australia in 1975 as a University of Chicago PhD student to study language and its relation to other aspects of social life among the Ngarinyin people in the Kimberley district of Western Australia. During 1978-95 he lectured in the Anthropology Department at the University of Sydney. While continuing his work with Aboriginal people in the Kimberleys, since 1981 Rumsey has done his main research in the Ku Waru region in the Western Highlands of Papua New Guinea, partly in collaboration with Francesca Merlan. Their work there has included projects on language and politics, verbal art, and child language socialization. In 1996 Rumsey joined the Anthropology Department in what is now the College of Asia and the Pacific at Australian National University, where he is a Professor and former Head of Department. In 2004 Rumsey was elected as a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. During 2010-11 he served as President of the Australian Anthropological Society. He is currently heading a major, ARC funded comparative project on Children’s language learning and the development of intersubjectivity, with special focus on Ku Waru children’s interactions with adults and other children . Key publications include ‘Wording, meaning and linguistic ideology’ (American Anthropologist 90: 91:346-61, 1990); Ku Waru: Language and Segmentary Politics in the Western Nebilyer Valley (Cambridge University Press, co-authored with Francesca Merlan, 1991); ‘Agency, personhood and the ‘I’ of discourse in the Pacific and beyond’ (Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute 6:101-115, 2000); Sung Tales from the Papua New Guinea Highlands (ANU Press, co-edited with Don Niles, 2011); and ‘Intersubjectivity, deception, and the “opacity of other minds”: perspectives from Highland New Guinea and beyond’ (Language and Communication 33:326-43, 2013).
Richard Eves »
Richard Eves is an anthropologist who has published widely on issues of social change in Papua New Guinea. He is currently a Senior Fellow at State Society and Governance in Melanesia at The Australian National University. In 2008, with Leslie Butt, he co-edited the ground-breaking volume Making Sense of AIDS: Culture, Sexuality, and Power in Melanesia (2008), a collection of anthropological papers on how the epidemic is being understood and responded to in Melanesia. Most of his recent work deals with contemporary issues in Melanesia, straddling the boundaries between anthropology, development and international health, with a particular focus on gender, violence and the AIDS epidemic.
Alison M. Behie »
Alison M Behie is a Lecturer in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology in Biological Anthropology at The Australian National University. Her chief research foci include primate behaviour and conservation, and the impact of nutrition on stress and disease in non-human primates. Moreover, she is also studying the effects of habitat disturbance, including environmental disasters on humans and non-human primates. Alison runs a primate behavior and conservation field school in Cambodia each year.
Annemarie Devereux »
Annemarie Devereux is an international and public lawyer with particular expertise in the fields of international law, constitutional law and human rights. Her particular familiarity with Timor-Leste comes from her work as a legal adviser with the human rights component of three peacekeeping missions in Timor-Leste, working on rule of law issues. This included observing and assisting the constitutional process of 2001–2002. She has also worked with the United Nations in other contexts (including with the Security Council’s CTED, OHCHR, and a variety of International Commissions of Inquiry), as well as with the Australian Government’s Attorney-General’s Department. Alongside her legal practice, she has continued to research and teach in the areas of international law and public law.
Richard Tanter »
Richard Tanter has worked on security and environmental issues as a teacher, researcher, policy analyst, and advocate in Australia, the United States, Japan, Korea and Indonesia since the 1970s. He is currently Senior Research Associate at the Nautilus Institute for Security and Sustainability, and Professorial Fellow (Honorary) in the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. At Melbourne University he teaches on nuclear weapons, and on East and Southeast Asian issues.
Richard has been researching a range of technical and strategic issues related to US and Australian intelligence and military facilities in Australia, including the 2012 study The “Joint Facilities” revisited – Desmond Ball, democratic debate on security, and the human interest, and he is currently completing a study of Pine Gap, North West Cape, and Geraldton, and other major facilities in Australia. With Desmond Ball, he is completing a major research study of Japanese electronic intelligence organization, part of which, The Tools of Owatatsumi: Japan’s Ocean Surveillance and Defence Capabilities, was recently published by ANU Press. In recent work at the Nautilus Institute he has been working mainly on questions of East Asian nuclear deterrence and the North East Asia Nuclear Weapon Free Zone proposal.
Richard is a frequent commentator on international affairs in newspapers, radio and television, quoted in the New York Times, Financial Times, Wall Street Journal, Asahi Shimbun, Australian Financial Review, The Age, Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, Tempo, Jakarta Post, ABC, BBC, VOA, Al Jazeera, Straits Times and Pravda.
David Raftery »
David Raftery is an Anthropologist whose professional experience and postgraduate research has focused on the character of economic and cultural transitions in both indigenous and non-indigenous Australian contexts. In particular, his research centres on social and economic institutions of family and business, and their capacity to adapt to a post-carbon economy.
Raymond Mallon »
Raymond has more than two decades experience working on — and learning about — economic development and regulatory reform issues in Asia and the Pacific. Following economics consulting experience in Australia and Asia, he worked as an Economist at ADB in Manila (1988-91), as Resident Economist for UNDP in Hanoi (1991-93), and as a World Bank Senior Policy Advisor (1993-95) at Viet Nam’s (former) State Planning Committee (now MPI). He has worked as an itinerant freelance consultant/economist since 1995, and is currently part-time senior policy advisor to the Beyond WTO initiative funded by the Governments of Viet Nam, Australia, and the UK.
Raymond is still trying to figure out why some countries succeed in achieving socio-economic development goals while others are less successful. Particular interests include:
the role of businesses and the private sector in development processes;
the impacts that Government policy and public investment decisions have on business investment, economic growth, employment generation and spatial development; and
the growing importance of regional economic linkages and the opportunities that such linkages provide for developing countries to “catch-up” in terms of technology, productivity and living standards.
Regular clients include multilateral (ADB, UN and World Bank), bilateral and government agencies, and research institutes. Raymond is regularly asked to advise on strategic planning, program formulation and evaluation, trade policy, regulatory reform, private sector development and rural urban transition issues. His involvement in various regional forum (such as the Greater Mekong Sub-region initiative) have provided interesting opportunities to work with leading regional thinkers in the development policy, academic and business sectors.
Formal qualifications include a Master of Economics from ANU, and a Bachelor of Agriculture Economics from UNE.
Raymond also serves on the Board of Directors of the United Nations International School in Hanoi, and is a member of the Board of Advisors for AISEC at the Hanoi Foreign Trade University.
Kim Huynh »
Kim Huynh teaches international relations at The Australian National University. He has written an account of his parents’ lives during and after the Indochinese Wars, entitled Where the Sea Takes Us: A Vietnamese-Australian Story (HarperCollins 2007) and is the co-author of Children and Global Conflict (Cambridge University Press 2015). Vietnam as if… is his and ANU Press’ debut work of fiction.
Hugh Laracy »
After completing an MA in History at the Victoria University of Wellington, Hugh Laracy graduated in 1970 from The Australian National University with a PhD in Pacific History. He subsequently pursued an academic career in New Zealand, from where he has applied himself assiduously to research and writing about the Pacific. In acknowledgement of his efforts, he has been awarded the Solomon Islands Medal (first class); and the Dunmore Medal for his work on the French in the Pacific; and a Fulbright Fellowship to study the impact of World War II there.
Kathy MacDermott »
Dr Kathy MacDermott has taught in universities in Australia and the United States and worked in the senior executive service of the Australian Public Service in the areas of industrial relations policy and public sector governance. She is a member of the Democratic Audit of Australia and the Centre for Policy Development. Her most recent publications include Whatever happened to ‘frank and fearless’? (for the Australia and New Zealand School of Government) and Marketing Government (for the Democratic Audit of Australia), and contributions to More than Luck (for the Centre for Policy Development) and the Australian Review of Public Affairs.
Marie Olive Reay »
Marie Olive Reay was a social anthropologist who did research in Australian indigenous communities and in the Wahgi Valley in the Central Highlands of Papua New Guinea. Employed at The Australian National University from 1959 to 1988 when she retired, Reay passed away in 2004.
John Taylor »
John Taylor is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of Social Inquiry at La Trobe University. He is the author of Consuming Identity: Modernity and Tourism in New Zealand (1988) and The Other Side: Ways of Being and Place in Vanuatu (2008). He is also co-editor of two previous ANU Press titles, Working Together in Vanuatu: Research Histories, Collaborations, Projects and Reflections (2011, with Nick Thieberger) and Touring Pacific Cultures (2016, with Kalissa Alexeyeff).
Aboriginal History »
Aboriginal History Inc. is a publishing organisation based in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, Research School of Social Science, The Australian National University, Canberra. It publishes the annual refereed journal Aboriginal History and a monograph series, and administers the Sally
Asia Pacific Press »
Asia Pacific Press was a specialist publisher based at The Australian National University in the Crawford School of Economics and Government, publishing on economics, development, governance and management in the Asia Pacific region. Asia Pacific Press closed in 2008. Scholarly Information Services
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) »
The Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (CAPPE) is an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre. CAPPE commenced operations in 2000 and is the world’s largest concentration of applied philosophers. Spanning three of Australia’s most prestigious universities, its purpose is to
Pacific Linguistics »
Pacific Linguistics is a publisher specialising in linguistic descriptions, dictionaries, atlases and other materials concerned with languages of the Pacific, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Southeast, South and East Asia. PL books are distributed by Photography, Distribution and
Resources, Environment & Development (RE&D) »
The Resources, Environment & Development (RE&D) Program is an inter-disciplinary program of research on the historical, social and institutional context of natural resource management in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region. The RE&D Program aims to function as a key node in the
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) »
The Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) is Australia’s leading centre for the study of strategic, defence and wider security issues. SDSC conducts research and teaching on the role of armed force in international affairs, especially as it affects Australia and its region. SDSC’s research
The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) »
The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) was established as a not-for-profit company in 2002 with the vision of creating a world-leading educational institution that teaches strategic management and high-level policy to public sector leaders. Formed by a consortium of governments
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia »
The state, society and governance in Melanesia program at ANU (SSGM) is devoted to the study of the Melanesian peoples and their countries – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji – and constitutes the largest concentration of research expertise on Melanesia in the world
Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs »
The books in this series deal with relationships between human populations and natural landscapes in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region from the perspectives of anthropology, geography, and related social sciences. These relationships include the exploitation, management and conservation of
Islam in Southeast Asia »
For the past two decades, The Australian National University has had a program for the study of Islam in Southeast Asia. Over the years, this program has produced an impressive array of graduates, many of them from the region, whose theses document the variety and vitality of Islam in Southeast
Russell Smith »
Russell Smith is Lecturer in Literary Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra. He has published widely on Samuel Beckett, with essays in the Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, as well as Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (2007), The International Reception of Samuel Beckett (2009), Beckett and Nothing (2010) and Beckett in Context (2012). He edited the collection Beckett and Ethics (Continuum 2009). He also writes on Australian literature and visual art, and is co-editor of Australian Humanities Review (www.australianhumanitiesreview.org). He is currently completing a book on the treatment of emotion in Beckett’s post-war writing, provisionally titled ‘All I am is feeling’: Beckett’s Sensibility.
Jan Pakulski »
Jan Pakulski, MA (Warsaw), PhD (ANU), is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Migrated to Australia in 1975; 1998-2001 Head of School of Sociology and SW, UTAS; 2001-8 Dean of Arts, UTAS. He is the author, co-author or editor 8 books and over 100 scholarly articles on elites, democratization, multiculturalism, post-communism, social movements, and social inequality. His books include Elite Recruitment in Australia (Canberra: ANU Press, 1982), Social Movements: The Politics of Moral Protest, (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire 1991); Postmodernization with S. Crook and M. Waters (London: Sage 1992, Chinese translation 1994); The Death of Class, with M. Waters (London: Sage 1996); Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe with J.Higley and W.Wesolowski (London: Macmillan 1998); Ebbing of the Green Tide? Environmentalism, Public Opinion and the Media in Australia (Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1998); Globalizing Inequalities (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 200); Toward Leader Democracy (New York and London: Anthem Press, 2012). Co-winner of Henry Mayer Prize for the best political science article published in Australia (1999) and winner of the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize for the Best Authored Book in Australian Sociology 2004-5 (Globalising Inequalities).
Kylie Message »
Kylie Message is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. She is author of Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest (Routledge, 2006), New Museums and the Making of Culture (Berg, 2006) and co-editor of volumes that include Compelling Cultures: Representing Cultural Diversity and Cohesion in Multicultural Australia (2009) and Museum Theory: An Expanded Field (forthcoming 2014, Blackwell Wiley). She is chief co-editor for the journal Museum Worlds (Advances in Research), managing editor for Museum and Society, and exhibition reviews editor for Australian Historical Studies.