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.

David Peetz »

David Peetz is Professor of Employment Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane, Australia, and a co‑researcher at the Centre de recherche interuniversitaire sur la mondialisation et le travail (the Interuniversity Research Centre on Globalization and Work) in Canada. He was recently a Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Advanced Research Collaborative in the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, was once a manager in the Senior Executive Service of the Australian Government’s Department of Industrial Relations and has undertaken work for unions, employers, the International Labor Organization, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and governments of both political persuasions.

Assessment in Legal Education »

This book series offers international views of assessment in legal education in Common Law jurisdictions. Five volumes in the series represent single jurisdictions or clusters of jurisdictions, with each volume containing: Information on assessment practices and cultures within a jurisdiction. A

Alison Bone »

Alison Bone is now retired and a Fellow of the Centre for Legal Education at Nottingham Trent University Law School. Prior to that she was a part-time Principal Lecturer at the University of Brighton. Her field of expertise is primarily assessment, in particular how it is designed and implemented. She was the author of Ensuring successful assessment: A guide for law lecturers (1999). She invented the concept of Law Teacher of the Year in the UK – now copied in other jurisdictions – which rewards law teachers who are excellent in their field.

Paul Maharg »

Paul Maharg is Distinguished Professor of Practice, Legal Education, at Osgoode Hall Law School, York University, Ontario; and Honorary Professor at The Australian National University College of Law, Canberra, where he was Director of the PEARL Centre (Profession, Education and Regulation in Law). Prior to this he held chairs at Nottingham Trent, Northumbria and Strathclyde University Law Schools. He has published widely in the field of legal education, particularly in international and interdisciplinary educational design, regulation and the use of technology-enhanced learning. He has undertaken consultancies for a range of bodies including law schools and regulators such as the Law Society of Scotland, the Law Society of Hong Kong, the Solicitors Regulation Authority and the Law Society of Ireland. He is consultant editor of the European Journal of Law and Technology, and co-editor of two book series, Emerging Legal Education and Digital Games and Learning (both Routledge). He is a member of the BILETA (British and Irish Law Education Technology Association) Executive, a Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2015), a National Teaching Fellow (2011) and a Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts and Manufactures (2009). He is currently a Visiting Professor at Hong Kong University Faculty of Law and Chinese University of Hong Kong Law School.

Mathieu Leclerc »

Mathieu Leclerc is a lecturer in Pacific archaeology in the School of Archaeology & Anthropology and an honorary lecturer in the Department of Archaeology & Natural History at The Australian National University. His interests centre on the development and application of innovative analytical techniques to archaeological problems. His current research includes chemical and mineralogical analysis of pottery assemblages from Vanuatu, Papua New Guinea and Indonesia, as well as a project on organic residue analysis of Lapita pottery.

'Risks and tips for publishing in the new era'- Science publishing at ANU »

Are you up all night thinking about how to get your research published? Come along to this fantastic panel event, which will go into the process of journal publishing from start to finish. The keynote presentation will be delivered by Professor David Tscharke from the ANU College of Health and

'Turning your thesis into a book'- How to publish in HASS at ANU »

Have you ever considered turning your thesis into a book? Look no further! This event will go through the whole publications process – including the peaks and pitfalls, dos and don’ts, pros and cons. The keynote presentation will be delivered by Dr Christina Parolin, Australian Academy of the

Meet the publisher- SAGE Publishing »

Have you ever wondered what kind of article gets published and why? Do you want guidelines from the publishers' perspectives and what catches our eyes? Do you know how to select the right journal to submit your article to? If you have ever asked any of these questions before, then this is the

Meet the publisher- Springer Nature »

Learn more about the process of academic publishing in this presentation by international publishing company Springer. Anton Van Rensburg, Editor at Springer Nature, will discuss the process of publishing, including: What does an editor look for in a manuscript? What does a good Original Research

Craig J. Reynolds »

Professor Craig J. Reynolds is a Visiting Fellow at the School of Culture, History and Language at The Australian National University. A historian of mainland Southeast Asia, he has taught in the University of Sydney’s Department of History and in the Faculty of Asian Studies at ANU, and has held visiting appointments at Cornell University, the University of California-Berkeley and Chulalongkorn University in Thailand. His research in cultural, political and intellectual history has been published in the USA, Thailand and Australia, and has been translated into Thai and Chinese. A second volume of his essays in Thai is in preparation. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.

Languages »

Languages Explore a world of languages via ANU Press’ dedicated imprint exploring language teaching. Download the free ebook to use wherever you find yourself around the globe.

Steven Ratuva »

Professor Steven Ratuva, a political sociologist, is Director of Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies and Professor in the Department of Anthropology and Sociology at the University of Canterbury. He is Chair of the International Political Science Association Research Committee on Security, Conflict and Democratization, and was recently Fulbright senior fellow at University of California, Los Angeles, Duke University and Georgetown University. With a PhD from the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, Ratuva has worked in a number of universities around the world, including The Australian National University, University of Auckland and University of the South Pacific. His latest books are Palgrave Handbook of Ethnicity (Palgrave, 2019) and Guns and Roses: Comparative Civil-militarily Relations in the Changing Security Environment (Palgrave, 2019).

Launch: Rosalie Gascoigne: A Catalogue Raisonné »

Join author Martin Gascoigne with National Gallery Director Nick Mitzevich in conversation about the art and life of Rosalie Gascoigne to officially launch Rosalie Gascoigne: A Catalogue Raisonné. More than 20 years in the making,  Rosalie Gascoigne: A Catalogue Raisonné  includes biographical and

Celebrating 50 issues of Terra Australis »

Terra Australis is celebrating its 50th issue! This is a timely celebration as 2019 is the year that marks 50 years of archaeology at ANU. Please join ANU Press, the editorial board of Terra Australis and the School of Culture, History & Language at the College of Asia & the Pacific to mark

John Giacon »

John Giacon arrived in Australia in 1954. After high school he joined the Christian Brothers, completing a teaching degree at Macquarie University. He moved from school education in 1994, going to Walgett to work with Indigenous people. He soon started cooperating with Uncle Ted Fields and others on reviving Yuwaalaraay, then a minimally spoken language. This led to involvement in Gamilaraay, a closely related language with a much larger community. In 2006, he moved to Canberra to begin a PhD (completed in 2014) on the two languages, and began teaching Gamilaraay at the University of Sydney. He currently teaches Gamilaraay at The Australian National University and continues to work with Gamilaraay and Yuwaalaraay people on developing their languages including involvement with schools, other groups and individuals. His language publications include the Gamilaraay, Yuwaalaraay & Yuwaalayaay Dictionary (coedited with Amanda Lissarrague and Anna Ash, 2003), Gayarragi Winangali (coauthored with David Nathan, 2008) and now Wiidhaa.

Canberra book launch: The Court As Archive »

The book will be launched by Linda Mulcahy, Professor of Socio-Legal Studies and Director of the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at Oxford University and Professor of Law at ANU College of Law. Until the late 20th century, ‘an archive’ generally meant a repository for documents, as well as the

Peer Review: Scholarly Research and Publishers Seminar »

The inaugural Peer Review Seminar will feature conversations on the latest global trends and local matters in academic peer review. Experts from across the research ecosystem will discuss peer review’s significance, to academia and the wider public, plus latest innovations being adopted. Sessions

Imprints »

ANU Press ANU Press is our primary imprint where high-quality, peer-reviewed monographs and journals covering a range of disciplines are published. Each submission is passed through a rigorous evaluation process by the appropriate Editorial Board and must meet the minimum requirements of

Helen Lee »

Helen Lee is Professor of Anthropology at La Trobe University in Melbourne. Since her first book, Becoming Tongan: An Ethnography of Childhood (1996, as H. Morton), she has published widely on migration and transnationalism and on Tongan history and society. This includes the ANU Press publication Migration and Transnationalism: Pacific Perspectives (2009, with Steve Tupai Francis)

Joanne Wallis »

Dr Joanne Wallis is a Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University.

Stuart Bedford »

Stuart Bedford is a Senior Lecturer at The Australian National University and Associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. He has been involved in the discovery and investigation of Lapita sites in Vanuatu since 1995. This has involved undertaking archaeological research on most of the islands of the archipelago on some of the best preserved Lapita sites known, which has helped transform the understanding of Lapita across its Pacific distribution.

Dan Halvorson »

Dan Halvorson is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Government and International Relations at Griffith University. His research interests focus on the history of Australia’s foreign and defence policies, Cold War history and decolonisation, and the historical sociology of the religious resurgence in world affairs.

ANU Press Languages release »

ANU Press is delighted to announce the release of a new imprint, ANU Press Languages. This imprint is dedicated to exploring language teaching and aims to promote exceptional language-based texts, including textbooks, educational materials and works from a diverse range of disciplines. Content from

Ron Boxall »

Ron Boxall entered the Officer Cadet School, Portsea, in January 1959 and was commissioned into the Australian Regular Army in the following December. During the 1966–67 tour in Vietnam of the 5th Battalion, the Royal Australian Regiment, he was second-in-command of D Company. He returned to Vietnam in 1971 with another infantry battalion in which he served as a rifle company commander. His military career spanned 31 years; he left the Army as a Brigadier.

Greg Fry »

Greg Fry is Honorary Associate Professor in the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy in the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, at The Australian National University. He is also Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Government, Development and International Affairs at the University of the South Pacific. His most recent books include Intervention and State-Building in the Pacific (co-editor with Tarcisius Kabutaulaka, Manchester University Press, 2008); and The New Pacific Diplomacy (co‑editor with Sandra Tarte, ANU Press, 2015.)