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.
Humanities and Creative Arts »
The Humanities and Creative Arts editorial board publishes monographs and edited collections across the range of humanities disciplines, from art history, literature, anthropology, history, social history, linguistics, music, to popular culture. We do not publish fiction. While we only consider
Islam in Southeast Asia »
For several decades, the Australian National University has had a program for the study of Islam in Southeast Asia. Over the years, this program has produced an impressive array of graduates, many of them from the region, whose theses document the variety and vitality of Islam in Southeast Asia.
Public Policy »
The Public Policy editorial board seeks high-quality manuscripts that make an important contribution to the study of public policy and public affairs. We welcome manuscripts from a wide range of academic fields, including political science, economics, history, social policy, public administration,
Science and Engineering »
Manuscripts submitted to the Science and Engineering editorial board so far have covered topics on Earth sciences, biology, medicine, climate and environmental sciences, information technology and energy research. The Board is interested also in manuscripts that detail the academic lives and
Summations »
The Summations editorial board seeks to promote the principal research and scholarship of senior academics within the ANU Faculty. As a record of critical research and scholarship, this series publishes work of major importance that has taken years to carry out. It also allows for reflection on
Pacific »
The Pacific editorial board recommends books for publication by ANU Press in two series: the Pacific Series, and the Pacific Affairs Series. Board publications embrace a wide range of Pacific scholarship from history to biography, anthropology, contemporary politics, literature and theory. Among
John Wanna »
John Wanna, PhD, is an emeritus professor of public administration at The Australian National University and Griffith University. He is a former editor of the Australian Journal of Public Administration and a former director of research at the Australia and New Zealand School of Government.
Victor Cheng »
Victor Cheng is a historian. His research interests include peace negotiations, the diffusion of military technology and military decision‑making in modern Chinese history.
Asian Studies Series »
The editorial committee of the Asian Studies Series interprets ‘Asia’ broadly in terms of region. To date, our titles cover such disciplines as contemporary art, international relations, history, literature, politics, and crime. We are particularly interested in monographs or edited collections
Perspectives on Europe »
Addressing issues relating to Europe and its internal and external relations, Perspectives on Europe offers a platform for critical analyses of the politics, law, economics, history and culture of Europe. It aims to approach Europe in its complexity and broadest geographical scope, reaching beyond
Asian Australian Studies »
The Asian Australian Studies series investigates the cultures, politics and histories of those of Asian descent in Australia, addressing a range of issues and knowledges that inform an overarching framework of ‘multicultural’ Australia. Much of this work engages with diasporic Asian, transnational
Asian Australian Studies »
The Asian Australian Studies series is the first publishing platform dedicated to Asian Australian studies. The series focuses on a growing field that investigates the cultures, politics and histories of those of Asian descent in Australia. Asian Australian studies addresses a range of issues and
Perspectives on Europe »
Perspectives on Europe is the first open-access, double-blind peer-reviewed book series on Europe and the European Union published in the Indo-Pacific region. Addressing issues relating to Europe and its internal and external relations, this multidisciplinary series offers a platform for critical
Anika Gauja »
Anika Gauja is a professor of politics in the Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney.
Marian Sawer »
Marian Sawer is an emeritus professor in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
Jill Sheppard »
Jill Sheppard is a senior lecturer in the School of Politics and International Relations, The Australian National University.
Jess Melvin »
Jess Melvin is a Discovery Early Career Research Award fellow in the School of Humanities (History) at the University of Sydney. She is author of The Army and the Indonesian Genocide: Mechanics of Mass Murder (2018). She was previously a postdoctoral fellow in genocide studies and a Henry Hart Rice Faculty Fellow in Southeast Asian studies at Yale University. Her research interests include human rights in Southeast Asia, political violence in the postcolonial world and Acehnese history.
Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem »
Sri Lestari Wahyuningroem is a senior lecturer at Universitas Pembangunan Nasional Veteran Jakarta, Indonesia. She holds a PhD from The Australian National University and began research on Aceh in 1998, examining military violence against women. Since then, she has undertaken research in Aceh for the United Nations Population Fund, the United Nations Fund for Women, the International Center for Transitional Justice, and Asia Justice and Rights. She is the author of Transitional Justice from State to Civil Society: Democratization in Indonesia (2020).
Annie Pohlman »
Annie Pohlman teaches Indonesian studies at the University of Queensland, in Brisbane. She is the author of Women, Sexual Violence and the Indonesian Killings of 1965–66 (2015) and co-editor of a range of volumes on mass atrocities, Southeast Asian history, and trauma and memory. Her research interests include Indonesian history, Southeast Asian politics, comparative genocide studies, torture, oral testimony and gendered experiences of violence.
Kate Bagnall »
Kate Bagnall is a social historian whose research sits at the intersections of migration, law and the family in the British settler colonial world. Kate is best known for her work in Chinese Australian history as well as in the history of the White Australia policy and its colonial beginnings. Her recent publications include the groundbreaking edited collection Locating Chinese Women: Historical Mobility between China and Australia (2021), co-edited with Julia Martínez. Before becoming a senior lecturer in humanities (history) at the University of Tasmania in 2019, Kate was an ARC DECRA research fellow at the University of Wollongong (2016–19).
Peter Prince »
Peter Prince has been writing for two decades about legal identity and belonging in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Australia. Peter completed his PhD in 2016 in this area through the ANU College of Law. He has published articles, papers and blogs on the implications of this history for the right to belong in modern Australia. His work has been cited by the High Court of Australia in critical ‘aliens’ cases, including Singh (2004), Love & Thoms (2020) and Chetcuti (2021). He is an affiliate of the University of Sydney Law School.
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Benjamin Penny »
Benjamin Penny is a professor of Chinese history and religion in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. His research examines religious and spiritual movements in modern and contemporary China as well as in medieval times; Taiwanese religion and society, and expatriate society in the treaty ports in the nineteenth century.
Brian McGowran »
Brian McGowran is a retired academic at the University of Adelaide, where he acquired his bachelor of science, doctor of philosophy and doctor of science degrees. As a micropalaeontologist, he consulted to the minerals and fuels exploration industry and was head of the Palaeontology Laboratory at the Geological Survey of South Australia. He has had visiting appointments at Princeton University, the Geological Survey of Austria and the University of Vienna. As an academic biogeohistorian he perches sometimes precariously between the ‘physical’ and the ‘biological’ disciplines and traditions. One outcome was the book Biostratigraphy: Microfossils in Geological Time (2005). Another was publishing studies of his heroes Martin Glaessner, Reg Sprigg and Charles Darwin, each of whom saw himself as both a geologist and a biologist.
Kate Laing »
Dr Kate Laing received her PhD in 2017 from La Trobe University. She has taught Australian history and politics at various universities and has worked as a research assistant at the University of Technology Sydney and a project officer at The Australian National University.