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.
Melinda Hinkson »
Melinda Hinkson is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Australian Research Council Future Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute, Deakin University, and visiting fellow in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology, The Australian National University. Among her recent publications is Remembering the Future: Warlpiri life through the prism of drawing (Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014).
Stephen Boyden »
Stephen Boyden graduated in Veterinary Science in London in 1947. From 1949 to 1965 he carried out research in immunology in Cambridge, New York, Paris, Copenhagen and Canberra. From 1965 until his retirement he pioneered work on human ecology and biohistory at The Australian National University (ANU) and in UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme. In the 1970s he initiated and directed the Hong Kong Human Ecology Program, which was the first comprehensive study of the ecology of a city. After retirement (1991) he established and worked with the Nature and Society Forum — a community-based organisation concerned with the well-being of humankind and the environment. He has authored and co-authored many books and articles on biohistory and urban ecology. At present he is Emeritus Professor in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, ANU.
Sudrishti Reich »
Sudrishti Reich is a senior lecturer in the Migration Law Program of ANU College of Law, The Australian National University. She has a long-standing interest and expertise in migration law, and practised as a registered migration agent and solicitor in the field since 1997. From 1997 to 2002, Sudrishti was the principal solicitor of the specialist community legal centre Immigration Advice and Rights Centre in Sydney. She is author of two editions of the immigration law practitioners’ bible: The Immigration Kit. Since leaving legal practice, Sudrishti has focused on teaching and developing courses in Australian migration law, and pursuing research interests in migration law and professional identity of migration agents. She teaches and develops courses within the Graduate Certificate in Australian Migration Law, and the Master of Laws in Migration Law. Sudrishti is General Editor of Immigration Review, published by LexisNexis.
Dorota Gozdecka »
Dorota Anna Gozdecka completed her PhD in legal theory in 2009 at the University of Helsinki, and has recently obtained the title of docent (adjunct professor) of jurisprudence from the same university. Her primary research area focuses on legal theoretical aspects related to the accommodation of cultural diversity. Her recent publications — such as Identity, Subjectivity and the Access to the Community of Rights, a special issue of Social Identities (2015), the monograph Rights, Religious Pluralism and the Recognition of Difference: Off the Scales of Justice (2015), and the edited volume Europe at the Edge of Pluralism — explore, in particular, questions of otherness created by contemporary legal regimes. Issues related to the recognition of difference and the place of the other have recently led her to shift her research focus to the area of law and humanities, and to explore the relationship between law and image in the area of migration law. Dorota has previously held research fellowships at the UC Berkeley Institute for European Studies (2013), ANU Centre for European Studies (2012–13), and the European University Institute (2008). She has won prestigious research grants, such as the University of Helsinki three-year grant for an international research project ‘Law and the Other’, which she is currently leading.
Marianne Dickie »
Marianne Dickie is a senior academic at the Migration Law Program in ANU College of Law. She is passionate about migration law and practice, having worked extensively in the migration field since 1993. Marianne remains determined to improve the legal support system for all migrants by providing future migration agents and legal practitioners the best possible education. Marianne managed the Migration Law Program from 2007–15 as convenor, sub-dean and director. Marianne also understands the importance of grassroots work in this legal space. In 2007, she established a pro bono migration advice clinic that provides support previously unavailable or unaffordable to migrants in the ACT. Her commitment to human rights was recognised in 2012 when she was a finalist for the ACT Australian of the Year. Marianne is a general editor of Immigration Review, published by LexisNexis, and a Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. She is a registered migration agent, holds a master’s degree in higher education, and is currently completing a doctorate of professional studies focusing on migration agents. She continues to research and write in her two areas of passion: education and migration.
Naomi Ogi »
Naomi Ogi is currently an honorary lecturer at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. She has actively been engaged in teaching and has won teaching awards such as the 2010 ANU College of Asia and the Pacific Award for Excellence in Tutoring, the 2011 ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Tutoring and Demonstrating, and the 2011 ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning. She has also actively been engaged in researches on spoken discourse, pragmatics and the teaching of culture in language education. Her current research focuses on the interactional functions of Japanese sentence-final particles and the contrastive study between Japanese and Korean in terms of the use of directive strategies and personal reference terms. Her recent books include the Japanese textbook ‘Nihongo ga Ippai’ [Nihongo ga Ippai] (Hituzi Syobo, 2010) and ‘Involvement and Attitude in Japanese Discourse: Interactive Markers’ (John Benjamins, in press).
Duck-Young Lee »
Duck-Young Lee is Reader in Japanese at the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. He has developed many syllabuses and learning materials for beginners of Japanese courses at the ANU for the past two decades. He has won multiple awards for his teaching, including the College Award for Excellence in Language Teaching in 2008, the College Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2012, and the ANU Commendation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning in 2009 and 2013. His research interests include spoken discourse, the interface between grammar and pragmatics, and language teaching. Outcomes of his researches in particular on spoken language and Japanese grammar have been adopted to his teaching.
Peter Skippington »
For many years, Peter Skippington has lived and worked in some of Australia’s most remote communities. During those years he grew to love the stunning landscapes of the Australian outback and the warmth, openness and friendliness of the people who inhabit those communities. His work in remote and rural communities always concentrated on ensuring equitable access to products and services, especially equity in education and training opportunities. His work as a teacher in remote schools sought to help young students explore new opportunities and experiences and to expand their ambitions for themselves and their communities. During this time, he worked with students living and working in the most remote areas of the country through the renowned School of the Air.
Later in his career, he continued to work to improve access to educational services for people in rural and remote areas of Australia through the development of national policies and strategies, which used new technologies to deliver programs and courses to adult learners. Most recently, he has explored the role of the arts in helping communities face the contemporary economic and social challenges that threaten their very existence.
Peter Skippington is currently a Visiting Scholar with The Australian National University’s Centre for European Studies (ANUCES). He holds a Bachelor of Arts (University of Queensland), a Research Masters of Education (Queensland University of Technology) and a PhD (The Australian National University) – his thesis examined the links between the arts and community development.
Kirrily Jordan »
Kirrily Jordan is a political economist with a particular interest in all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander employment and economic development. Her research includes analysis of various public and private sector programs designed to improve Indigenous employment outcomes, as well as the interaction of these programs with the social security system and new forms of welfare conditionality. Kirrily began investigating the Community Development Employment Projects scheme in 2009 and is currently undertaking research on its replacement—the Community Development Program—as well as other federally funded schemes including the Vocational Training and Employment Centres and Employment Parity Initiative. She is working alongside Lisa Fowkes and Will Sanders as a lead investigator on the Australian Research Council project ‘Implementing the remote jobs and communities program: How is policy working in Indigenous communities?’
Derek Freeman »
Throughout his life, Derek Freeman was concerned with ideas whose implications he pursued with tireless vigour. He first established his reputation as a noted ethnographer, doing initial fieldwork in the early 1940s on the local polity of Sa’anapu in Western Samoa. After submitting a study of Samoa for a Diploma in Anthropology at the University of London, he went on to do important new field research on the Iban of Sarawak for his doctorate at Cambridge University. In 1954, he was appointed as Senior Fellow in Anthropology at The Australian National University producing a range of studies on the Iban and on social organisational theory. Later appointed as Professor and Head of Department and on his retirement as Emeritus Professor, Freeman remained in the Department of Anthropology throughout his career.
Derek Freeman died in Canberra on 6 July 2001 at the age of 84.
Nigel Davidson »
Nigel Davidson graduated from the University of Tasmania in 2000 with a bachelor degree in law and arts. He was admitted to legal practice in the Australian Capital Territory in 2001, and assisted with the implementation of Australia’s obligations under the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court while working at the Australian Attorney-General’s Department. In 2003 he commenced working for the Australian Capital Territory Department of Justice and Community Safety, assisting with the implementation of the Human Rights Act 2004 (ACT). In 2007 he moved to the Netherlands, where he provided legal assistance to judges at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia. At the end of 2007, in Tanzania, he commenced work as a judge’s associate for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, returning to Australia in 2010 to complete his studies towards the degree of Doctor of Juridical Science from The Australian National University. He went back to the Rwanda Tribunal in 2011, working with the Prosecution Appeals section. Since April 2016, Nigel has been based in Hobart, where he has been pursuing research interests in international law as a university associate with the University of Tasmania. He has also been practising as a barrister with Michael Kirby Chambers since the end of August.
John Besemeres »
John Besemeres taught politics at Monash University, was head of Polish and later Slavonic Studies at Macquarie University, spent five years working as a translator in Belgrade and Warsaw, and served for some 30 years in several Australian Government portfolios including Prime Minister and Cabinet, Immigration and Ethnic Affairs, and Foreign Affairs and Trade. The author of Socialist Population Politics (M.E. Sharpe, New York, 1980), he has published extensively on Russian and East-Central European affairs.
Shelley Richardson »
Shelley Richardson was born in Canberra and raised in Christchurch. She is a graduate of the University of Canterbury and The Australian National University. She co-authored Anthony Wilding: a sporting life (Canterbury University Press, 2005).
Gloria Davies »
Gloria Davies is a literary scholar and historian of China. She is Professor of Chinese Studies in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics at Monash University and an Adjunct Director of the China in the World.
Luigi Tomba »
Luigi Tomba is a political scientist who has published widely on China’s political and social change and the urban condition. His latest book is The Government Next Door. Neighbourhood Politics in Urban China (Cornell University Press, 2014). It was awarded the prestigious Association of Asian Studies Joseph Levenson Prize for the best book on Post-1900 China in 2016. He is an Associate Director of China in the World and was the co-editor of The China Journal from 2005–2015.
Hal Kendig »
Professor Hal Kendig FASSA is a gerontologist and sociologist who serves as the Professor of Ageing and Public Policy at The Australian National University in the Centre for Research on Ageing, Health and Wellbeing in the Research School of Population Health. He is also Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
Peter McDonald »
Professor Peter McDonald AM FASSA is Professor of Demography at the Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne and Deputy Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research.
John Piggott »
Professor John Piggott FASSA is Director of the ARC Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research at the University of New South Wales, where he is Scientia Professor of Economics.
Anita Pisch »
Dr. Anita Pisch is a PhD graduate in Art History and Curatorship and Visiting Scholar, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, at The Australian National University, Canberra. She also holds a Masters degree in Cross-Disciplinary Art and Design from the College of Fine Arts at the University of New South Wales, and a Bachelor of Arts with Combined Honours in Theatre Studies and English Literature with a Major in Modern History. Her other areas of study have included psychology, political economy, political science and publishing, and she also freelances as an academic editor.
Tahu Kukutai »
Tahu Kukutai belongs to the Ngāti Tīpa, Ngāti Maniapoto and Te Aupouri tribes and is Associate Professor of demography at the National Institute of Demographic and Economic Analysis, University of Waikato. Tahu specialises in Māori and indigenous demographic research and has written extensively on issues of Māori and tribal population change, identity, and inequality. She also has an ongoing interest in how governments around the world count and classify populations by ethnic-racial and citizenship criteria. Tahu is a founding member of Te Mana Raraunga: the Māori data sovereignty network, Vice President of the Population Association of New Zealand and Deputy Director of the Ageing Well National Science Challenge. She was a journalist in a former life.
Aletta Biersack »
Aletta Biersack’s Papua New Guinea research has been among the Ipili speakers of the Porgera and Paiela valleys, Enga Province. The research topics upon which she has published include gender; ritual, mythology and cosmology; kinship, marriage and social networks; gold mining in Porgera and at Mt Kare; and the history of Ipili speakers in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. She is also the editor of Clio in Oceania, Papuan Borderlands, and Ecologies for Tomorrow, and co-editor of Reimagining Political Ecology and Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific. She is professor of cultural anthropology at the University of Oregon.
Martha Macintyre »
Martha Macintyre is an Honorary Principal Fellow at the University of Melbourne and until 2015 was editor of The Australian Journal of Anthropology. She has undertaken research in Milne Bay and New Ireland Provinces in Papua New Guinea over a 30-year period and has co-edited several volumes on gender, economic and social change in Papua New Guinea. Her most recent volumes are Managing Modernity in the Western Pacific, co-edited with Mary Patterson, and Emergent Masculinities in the Pacific, co-edited with Aletta Biersack.
Elizabeth Ganter »
Elizabeth Ganter, a public servant and academic, lived and worked in the Northern Territory for over 25 years. She wrote Reluctant Representatives: Blackfella bureaucrats speak in Australia’s north as a CAEPR Centre Associate in Canberra. Elizabeth is dedicated to improving public administration in Australian Indigenous affairs through better relationships between government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
Rebecca Giblin »
Dr Rebecca Giblin is a member of Monash University's Law Faculty. During 2011 she was the Kernochan Visiting International Intellectual Property Scholar at Columbia Law School in New York, and in 2013 a Senior Visiting Scholar in residence at Berkeley Law School. As well as being co-editor of What if we could reimagine copyright?, Dr Giblin is the author of Code Wars (Edward Elgar, 2011), and numerous other journal articles, book chapters, law reform submissions and pieces in the popular press. She has been invited to address diverse audiences across Australia and in the US, the UK, Europe, Israel, South Africa, Hong Kong and South Korea. She is currently the lead Chief Investigator of a $680,204 ARC Linkage Project studying the legal and social impacts of library elending. Many of her research papers are available for full text download via SSRN. She tweets on tech law, IP & related issues @rgibli.
Kimberlee Weatherall »
Kimberlee Weatherall is a Professor of Law at the University of Sydney Law School specialising in intellectual property law, including copyright as it interacts with digital technologies. She is a member of the Law Council of Australia’s IP Subcommittee and the Board of the Australian Digital Alliance, and a former member of the Board of the Arts Law Centre of Australia, the Commonwealth of Australia’s Advisory Council on Intellectual Property and the consultative committee associated with the Australian Law Reform Commission’s Inquiry into Copyright and the Digital Economy.