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Terence Wesley-Smith »
Terence Wesley-Smith is a Professor in the Center for Pacific Islands Studies, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, and Principle Investigator of a National Resource Center Grant (Pacific Islands) from the US Department of Education. He served as center director 2010–18, and editor of The Contemporary Pacific 2008–15. His publications include Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific (University of Hawai‘i Press, 2010) and China in Oceania: Towards a New Regional Order? (Berghahn Books 2010).
‘Realities and Future of Work’ Review »
Excerpt from Barbara Pocock’s review of David Peetz’s Realities and Future of Work Labour History • Number 119 • November 2020 The pandemic experience reveals what many workers know: formal rights at work are not available to many Australians. This includes those who work every day and for years at
Helen Bromhead »
Helen Bromhead is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, undertaking a research project on climate and extreme weather in Australian public discourse. She is also an Honorary Lecturer in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, The Australian National University. She is the author of Landscape and Culture – Cross-linguistic Perspectives (John Benjamins, 2018) and The Reign of Truth and Faith: Epistemic Expressions in 16th and 17th Century English (Mouton de Gruyter, 2009).
Jordana Silverstein »
Dr Jordana Silverstein is a historian based in Naarm/Melbourne, affiliated with the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne and the Department of Archaeology and History at La Trobe University.
Rachel Stevens »
Dr Rachel Stevens is a contemporary refugee historian based at the Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences at the Australian Catholic University in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia.
Kim Rubenstein »
Kim Rubenstein is a Professor in the Faculty of Business, Government, and Law and Co-Director of the 50/50 by 2030 Foundation at the University of Canberra and is an Honorary Professor at The Australian National University.
Theodore Schwartz »
Theodore Schwartz is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania in 1958. He has conducted more than seven years of field research in Papua New Guinea, beginning in 1953. His publications include numerous journal articles, edited volumes (New Directions in Psychological Anthropology, 1992, with Catherine Lutz and Geoffrey M. White; Socialization as Cultural Communication: Development of a Theme in the Work of Margaret Mead, 1980), and The Paliau Movement in the Admiralty Islands, 1946–1954 (1962). In 2003, he received a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Society for Psychological Anthropology. He lives in Del Mar, California.
Michael French Smith »
Michael French Smith received his PhD from the University of California, San Diego, in 1978. He first went to Papua New Guinea in 1973 as a research assistant to Theodore Schwartz and he has returned many times. His publications include Hard Times on Kairiru Island (1994), Village on the Edge (2002), and A Faraway, Familiar Place (2013). As an applied anthropologist, he has provided project design and evaluation expertise to organisations throughout the United States and in several Pacific Islands and Latin American countries. He lives in Honor, Michigan.
Helga M Griffin »
Helga Maria Griffin (née Girschik) was born in Turkey in 1935. In 1956, she married an Australian in Rome. She subsequently raised six children in Australia and Papua New Guinea. She taught in further education, and from 1979–98 was on the staff of the Australian Dictionary of Biography project. With Anthony Regan, she edited the comprehensive study Bougainville Before the Conflict (Pandanus Books, 2005).
Trish Mercer »
Trish Mercer is a Visiting Fellow at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government at The Australian National University.
Russell Ayres »
Russell Ayres is a policy consultant and Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra’s Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis.
Brian Head »
Brian Head is the Director of the Centre for Policy Futures and Professor of Public Policy in the School of Political Science, University of Queensland.
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Darryl Palmer »
Darryl Palmer has a BA (Hons) and MA (Hons) from the University of Melbourne; a BD (Hons) from Drew University; and a ThM from Harvard University. He has been lecturing in Classics since 1960.
Understanding the news in 2021 »
As the Myanmar coup continues to rattle world politics, two books shed a light on Myanmar’s turbulent democratic history. Trevor Wilson’s Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar and Andrew Selth’s 2020 publication Interpreting Myanmar are available for free download. With the UNHCR reporting that
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Bolstered by the unprecedented growth in remote online learning, ANU Press enjoyed its most successful year to date. With a collection now exceeding 940 titles and 5 million downloads annually, ANU Press emerged from the turmoil of 2020 as one of the world’s largest open-access publishing houses.
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ANU Press specialises in publications from Asia and Pacific Studies, Indigenous Studies, Social Sciences and Public Policy. Highlighting the diversity of ANU Press’s collection, we recommend the following titles for students or educators. All readers can browse the catalogue by subject area and
Elizabeth Buchanan »
Elizabeth Buchanan is Lecturer of Strategic Studies with Deakin University and a Fellow of the Modern War Institute at West Point. Dr Buchanan holds a PhD in Russian Arctic strategy from The Australian National University and was recently the Visiting Maritime Fellow at the NATO Defense College. She has been a Visiting Scholar with the Brookings Institution and has experience in the global oil sector.
Catherine Fisher »
Dr Catherine Fisher is a historian and policy adviser who holds a PhD from the School of History at The Australian National University. She co-edited Expressions of War in Australia and the Pacific: Language, Trauma, Memory, and Official Discourse (Palgrave Macmillan, 2020). Her work has been published in Women’s History Review and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, and she has contributed to the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
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Graeme Smith »
Graeme Smith is a Fellow in the Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University. His academic background is in Chinese politics, as one of few Western scholars to have worked within local government in China. He has won best article prizes by China Quarterly and The Journal of Pacific History, and co-hosts the award-winning Little Red Podcast with former NPR and BBC China correspondent Louisa Lim.
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More Pacific Islands portraits »
Publication date: 2025
This book, a worthy successor to the first Pacific Islands Portraits edited by the late W. Davidson and Deryck Scarr, tells the stories of more of the colourful characters. Islanders and expatriates, who lived in the Pacific islands during the past 150 years. This collection of thirteen essays deals with people with such differing views as Charles Saint Julian, the visionary who drew up constitutions through which he hoped island communities would become what the western world would consider civilised states; Apolosi R. Nawai, a messianic leader in Fiji who challenged established authority; C. M. Woodford, the naturalist who came to study nature hut finished as Resident Commissioner of the Solomon Islands Protectorate; Henry Nanpei who manipulated successive European overlords. These and others come to life in the pages of this book. There is much here for the Pacific historian hut others also will find entertainment and food for thought in these accounts.
A bibliography of the First Fleet »
Publication date: 2025
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Oil search in Australia »
Publication date: 2025
Written primarily for the layman, this book is an account of the history, development and current activities in the search for oil in Australia. It outlines the geological factors controlling the generation of oil and natural gas in sedimentary basins and surveys the petroleum potential of onshore and offshore regions. Geological, technological and economic factors are defined and the present and possible future production of crude oil and natural gas in Australia are discussed. Mention is also made of the potential production of synthetic oil from oil shale and coal. This is an authoritative reference work which explains in simple terms the scientific, technological and economic aspects of the search for oil in Australia.