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.
Gabrielle Meagher »
Gabrielle Meagher is Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University and affiliated professor in the Department of Social Work at Stockholm University. She collaborates on research exploring the political economy of social services and the organisation of paid care work in social service systems.
Adam Stebbing »
Adam Stebbing is a Lecturer in Sociology in the School of Social Sciences at Macquarie University. His research focuses on understanding the impact that the recent shift to support private social provision via ‘social policy by other means’ is having on the Australian welfare state.
Diana Perche »
Diana Perche is Senior Lecturer in Social Research and Policy at the University of New South Wales. Diana’s research focuses on the participation of First Nations people in Australian politics and policy-making, and on how Australian governments use evidence and ideology to design public policy affecting or targeting Indigenous people.
Sally K. May »
Associate Professor Sally K. May is an ARC Future Fellow with the School of Humanities at the University of Adelaide and an adjunct Research Fellow with the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research, Griffith University, Queensland. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on relationships between people, landscapes, material culture and imagery.
Jo McDonald »
Professor Jo McDonald FAHA MAACAI is the Director of the Centre for Rock Art Research + Management at the University of Western Australia. She has developed numerous collaborative research partnerships focused around rock art with Aboriginal communities in the Western Desert and Pilbara that link custodians and their ranger groups, mythological narratives and rock art.
Paul S.C. Taçon »
Distinguished Professor Paul S.C. Taçon FAHA FSA FQA is a past ARC Australian Laureate Fellow (2016–2021) and Chair in Rock Art Research at Griffith University, Queensland. Since 1980, he has conducted archaeological and ethnographic fieldwork across Australia, Southeast Asia and elsewhere, leading to over 310 academic and popular publications.
Ursula K. Frederick »
Dr Ursula K. Frederick is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research, University of Canberra. She has a background in art history, archaeology and visual arts. In addition to rock art, Ursula’s research embraces the archaeology of art, inscription and other mark-making activities, including graffiti.
Nicholas Halter »
Nicholas Halter is an Australian historian who has lived and worked in Micronesia and Fiji. Born in Sydney, he studied history at the University of Wollongong and The Australian National University. Since 2016, he has lectured in Pacific history and historiography at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji.
Made in China Journal »
The Made in China Journal (MIC) is a publication focusing on labour, civil society and human rights in China. It is founded on the belief that spreading awareness of the complexities and nuances underpinning socioeconomic change in contemporary Chinese society is important, especially considering
Humanities Research »
Humanities Research is a peer-reviewed, open access, annual journal that promotes outstanding innovative, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary scholarship to advance critical knowledge about the human world and society. The journal is co-published by the Humanities Research Centre, The
R.J. May »
Dr R.J. May is an emeritus fellow of The Australian National University, attached to the Department of Pacific Affairs. He was formerly a senior economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, foundation director of the National Research Institute of Papua New Guinea and head of the Department of Political and Social Change, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. In 1976 he was awarded the Independence Medal for his service to banking and research in Papua New Guinea.
Christiane Gerblinger »
Christiane Gerblinger is a Visiting Fellow and graduate co-convenor of ‘Science, Technology and Public Policy’ at the Centre for the Public Awareness of Science at The Australian National University in Canberra. An alum of Australia’s prestigious Sir Roland Wilson scholarship, Christiane completed a PhD on the language of rejected policy advice in 2021, a PhD in Gothic science fiction in 2000, and a BA (Hons) in literature in 1995. In between, she worked in a range of public sector roles, including as a senior policy adviser on counter-proliferation, data, energy, health and rural policy and as a speechwriter in an economic portfolio.
International Review of Environmental History »
International Review of Environmental History takes an interdisciplinary and global approach to environmental history. It encourages scholars to think big and to tackle the challenges of writing environmental histories across different methodologies, nations, and time-scales. The journal embraces
Lesley Woods »
Lesley Woods is a Ngiyampaa Wangaaypuwan woman, a linguist and a PhD candidate in linguistics at The Australian National University. Lesley has had more than 20 years’ experience working ethically and collaboratively with Indigenous communities and their languages in New South Wales and Western Australia. She has a long-held interest in linguistic justice for Indigenous people. Lesley lives and works on her ngurrampaa (country), in the Central West of New South Wales.
Marc H. Opper »
Marc H. Opper is an independent scholar based in Virginia in the United States. He is the author of People’s Wars in China, Malaya, and Vietnam (2019) and has published articles in the Journal of the Malaysian Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society, Twentieth-Century China and Zuyin jianxun [Footprints Bulletin]. He is currently working on a book-length biography of Lai Teck, the leader of the Malayan Communist Party (MCP) from 1939 to 1947, tentatively titled Counter/revolutionary Hero: Lai Teck and the Communist Revolution in Southeast Asia.
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Lana Grelyn Takau »
Lana Grelyn Takau is a freelance linguistics researcher working for the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology. A native Ni‑Vanuatu originating from Paama and Pentecost parentage, she has a PhD in linguistics from the University of Newcastle in Australia. She lives in Vanuatu with her daughter and loves being outdoors.
V M (Val) Barrett »
V M (Val) Barrett is a former senior executive in the Australian Parliament and senior manager in the Legislative Assembly for the ACT. Her career of more than 30 years commenced as a Hansard reporter before the emergence of modern communications technology, and ended with management responsibilities across the whole range of non-procedural parliamentary support services. In 2015, she took up a research scholarship at The Australian National University to compare parliamentary administration in the UK and Australia. Her doctorate was awarded in 2020.
Elly Kent »
Dr Elly Kent is a researcher, writer, translator, artist, educator and intercultural professional who works in academia and the arts in Indonesia and Australia. Her research focuses on the art of Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia, and she is a lecturer in Indonesian studies at UNSW Canberra.
Caroline Turner »
Dr Caroline Turner FRSA is a curator and academic who has written extensively on contemporary Asian art. She was co-founder and project director of the Queensland Art Gallery’s first three Asia Pacific Triennial exhibitions in the 1990s, and was previously also deputy director of the Humanities Research Centre at The Australian National University.
Russell W. Glenn »
Dr Russell W. Glenn spent 16 years in the think-tank community as a senior defence analyst after retiring from the US Army, later joining the faculty of Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. His education includes a bachelor of science from the United States Military Academy and master’s degrees from the University of Southern California, Stanford University, and the School of Advanced Military Studies. He earned a PhD in American history from the University of Kansas. He is the author of more than 50 books or book-length reports on urban operations and other security-related topics. His most recent book, Trust and Leadership: The Australian Army Approach to Mission Command (2020), was a cooperative effort with serving and retired Australian Army officers.
Virginia Hooker »
Dr Virginia Hooker FAHA is professor emerita at The Australian National University and a fellow in the Department of Political and Social Change, ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. She has published widely on Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia, and on literature, art and social change in Southeast Asia.
East Asia Forum Quarterly »
East Asia Forum Quarterly grew out of East Asia Forum (EAF) online, which has developed a reputation for providing a platform for the best in Asian analysis, research and policy comment on the Asia Pacific region in world affairs. EAFQ aims to provide a further window onto research in the leading
Ligang Song »
Ligang Song is director of the China Economy Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
Yixiao Zhou »
Yixiao Zhou is a senior lecturer in economics and deputy director of the China Economy Program, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.