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.
Interview with Adam Triggs, EAFQ »
We recently met up with Adam Triggs, guest editor of the East Asia Forum Quarterly (Volume 10, Number 4). In this extended interview, Adam tells us about the focus of this issue. +61 2 6125 7979 News article Wednesday, 14 November, 2018- 15:45 Scholarly Information Services
Our new website is now live! »
ANU Press has just launched its new website. In addition to the fresh look and feel, key innovations of the website include: New search functions Delve into our catalogue with these tools: Search for keywords within publications Filter by discipline and/or region Search by titles or author/editor
Happy holidays from ANU Press »
Thank you for your support in 2018. We hope you have a happy and safe festive period. Don’t forget to look through our catalogue of titles for some summer reading. ANU Press will be closed from noon on 24 December and reopen on 2 January 2019. +61 2 6125 7979 News article No Monday, 17 December,
Top 10 downloaded books in 2018 »
Readers couldn’t get enough of ANU Press books in 2018: we had a record-breaking 3.17 million downloads of our titles. Below were our top 10 downloaded titles: The Military and Democracy in Asia and the Pacific (60,441 total downloads) The Personality Cult of Stalin in Soviet Posters, 1929–1953 (42
‘Learning from Fukushima’ now published in Japanese »
Our 2017 release ‘Learning from Fukushima’ has just been translated into Japanese. In this book, scholars from around the world critically investigate the costs and benefits of building nuclear power for countries in East Asia. The book draws on the most comprehensive databases of nuclear power
2019 CASS PhD Publishing Prize »
2019 prize to assist with publication of a CASS PhD thesis The CASS Humanities & Creative Arts ANU Press Editorial Board is offering a prize valued at $2,500 for the best completed and passed PhD thesis submitted in CASS since 2015. The prize money will be used to meet expenses associated with
Meet the Editor- Malcolm Allbrook from Australian Journal of Biography and History »
Learn about ANU Press' new journal Australian Journal of Biography and History, which includes articles on influential figures Miss Annie Hughston (1859–1943) and Jean Andruana Jimmy (1912–1991). +61 2 6125 7979 News article No Monday, 18 March, 2019- 15:00 Scholarly Information Services
Meet Kim Rubenstein, co-editor of The Court as Archive »
Meet Kim Rubenstein, co-editor of the new ANU Press book The Court as Archive. This collection offers a unique contribution to the conversations about what an archive might be, and addresses what it means for contemporary superior courts of record to not only have duties to documents as a matter of
Launch of ANU Historical Journal II »
After 32 years the ANU Historical Journal (1964 – 87) is returning in a second iteration. Following in the footsteps of its predecessor, the first issue of the revived ANUHJ brings together the writing and research of several generations of Australian historians in a single volume. Together, the 21
Kylie Carman-Brown »
Kylie Carman-Brown studied history at Murdoch University and found her way into environmental history writing an Honours thesis about marine water pollution in Cockburn Sound. She worked in environmental planning for many years before returning to university to complete her PhD at The Australian National University.
Stewart Firth »
Stewart Firth is a Research Fellow at Department of Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. He was Professor of Politics at the University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji, 1998–2004. He is chair of the Pacific Editorial Board for ANU Press, and he co-teaches an ANU undergraduate course on Pacific politics. His research focuses on the international relations of the Pacific Islands.
Vijay Naidu »
Vijay Naidu has worked for more than 40 years at the University of the South Pacific as tutor, lecturer, reader, professor, head of schools, dean, pro-vice chancellor and acting vice chancellor. For many years he was Professor and Director of Development Studies. He is active in a number of non-government organisations, and has served as consultant to government, non-government organisations and UN agencies.
Launch of 'True Biographies of Nations?' »
Emeritus Professor Tom Griffiths will launch ‘True Biographies of Nations?’ The Cultural Journeys of Dictionaries of National Biography, edited by Karen Fox. The book brings together practitioners from national biographical dictionary projects around the English‑speaking world to reflect on the
Peter Bellwood »
Peter Bellwood (PhD Cambridge 1980) is Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University in Canberra. His current research is focused on global patterns of human migration throughout human prehistory, but his many years of archaeological fieldwork have been concentrated in Southeast Asia and Oceania. His most recent books include First Islanders (Wiley Blackwell 2017); The Global Prehistory of Human Migration (ed., Wiley Blackwell 2015); First Migrants (Wiley Blackwell 2013); and 4000 Years of Migration and Cultural Exchange (co-edited with Eusebio Dizon, Terra Australis 40, 2013). Peter Bellwood was also the recipient of a festschrift volume, New Perspectives in Southeast Asian and Pacific Prehistory (Philip J. Piper, Hirofumi Matsumura and David Bulbeck [eds]), published as Terra Australis 45 (2017).
Elizabeth Truswell »
Elizabeth Truswell has spent much of her working life as a geoscientist, with an Honours degree from the University of Western Australia and a PhD from Cambridge University. After postdoctoral study in the US, she worked as a palaeontologist and environmental geoscientist with Geoscience Australia. She was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science in 1985, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of Australia in 2009.
In 2000, she received an Honours in painting from The Australian National University and has held a number of solo exhibitions since then. Her works are held in Australia, the US, France and Italy. She has recently been a Visiting Fellow at the Research School of Earth Sciences at The Australian National University, dividing her time between ongoing scientific research and making art.
James Flexner »
James Flexner is senior lecturer in historical archaeology and heritage at the University of Sydney. James specialises in landscape archaeology and the historical archaeology of Oceania. He has done extensive archaeological fieldwork in the south of Vanuatu, as well as Hawai‘i and Tasmania.
Michelle Arrow »
Michelle Arrow is an Associate Professor in Modern History at Macquarie University. She is the author of three books, including Friday on Our Minds: Popular Culture in Australia since 1945 (2009) and The Seventies: The Personal, the Political and the Making of Modern Australia (2019). In 2014, Michelle won the NSW Premier’s Multimedia History Prize (with Catherine Freyne and Timothy Nicastri) for her radio feature ‘Public Intimacies: The 1974 Royal Commission on Human Relationships’.
Angela Woollacott »
Angela Woollacott is the Manning Clark Professor of History at The Australian National University. She is an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia and the Australian Academy of Humanities, and a former president of the Australian Historical Association. Her most recent book, Settler Society in the Australian Colonies: Self-Government and Imperial Culture (2015), was shortlisted for the 2015 Queensland Literary Awards—University of Southern Queensland History Book Award. Her biography Don Dunstan: The Visionary Politician who Changed Australia, which has been supported by an Australian Research Council Discovery grant, will be published by Allen & Unwin in August 2019.
Launch of 'Understanding Oceania' »
ANU–USP Launch of 'Understanding Oceania: Celebrating the University of the South Pacific and its collaboration with The Australian National University' Programme MC: Michelle Tevita-Singh, Alumni Relations Coordinator 3.00pm Garlanding of ANU Vice Chancellor, Professor Brian Schmidt 3
Book Launch: Zhang Peili »
The launch of Zhang Peili: From Painting to Video (edited by Dr Olivier Krischer) features a launch address by Dr Caroline Turner, Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts. In 2014, New York-based artist Lois Conner gifted one of pioneering Chinese artist Zhang
Helen Randerson »
Helen Randerson is a Sydney-based researcher whose interests have focused on inner-city areas as places of radical activity, including their industrial and trade union histories.
Devleena Ghosh »
Devleena Ghosh is a Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney.
Victoria Stead »
Victoria Stead is an ARC DECRA senior research fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation, Deakin University. She is an anthropologist whose research explores local negotiations of postcolonial legacies and processes of change related to land, labour, memory and belonging in the Pacific as well as in rural Australia.
Jon Altman »
Jon Altman is currently a research professor at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University and emeritus professor with the School of Regulation and Global Governance at The Australian National University, where he was the foundation director of the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) 1990–2010. He has a disciplinary background in economics and anthropology and has worked with Kuninjku-speaking people in West Arnhem Land, north Australia, since 1979.