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.
Robert J. Foster »
Robert J. Foster is Professor of Anthropology and Visual and Cultural Studies, and Richard L. Turner Professor of Humanities at the University of Rochester, and Adjunct Professor at the Institute for Culture and Society, Western Sydney University. He has published widely on globalisation, nation making, corporations, commercial media and material culture. His books include Materializing the Nation: Commodities, Consumption and Media in Papua New Guinea (2002); Coca-Globalization: Following Soft Drinks from New York to New Guinea (2008); and Art, Artifact, Commodity: Perspectives on the P.G.T. Black Collection (2017, co-edited with Kathryn H. Leacock).
Cameo Dalley »
Cameo Dalley is a settler descendant and anthropologist. Her multidisciplinary research has explored Indigenous identities, belonging in contemporary Australia, native title, pastoral economies, and contemporary agribusiness. She maintains research relationships with Lardil, Yangkaal and Kaiadilt peoples in the Wellesley Islands, Gulf of Carpentaria, and groups in the Kimberley region of Western Australia. Her first book What Now: Everyday Endurance and Social Intensity in an Australian Aboriginal Community (2021) was published by Berghahn. She has held academic appointments at The Australian National University, Deakin University, and the University of Melbourne, where she is a senior lecturer in the Indigenous studies program. She is a board member of the Journal of Australian Studies.
Ashley Barnwell »
Ashley Barnwell is a senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Melbourne. She is interested in sociological aspects of emotions, memory, and narrative, and the role of life writing, archives, and literature in sociological research. She is an ARC DECRA fellow working on the project ‘Family Secrets, National Silences: Intergenerational Memory in Settler Colonial Australia’. This project aims to investigate the inherited family secrets, stories and memories that inform Australians’ understandings of colonial history. Ashley publishes across sociology, history and literary studies, and is co-author of the book Reckoning with the Past: Family Historiographies in Australian Literature (with Joseph Cummins, 2019). She is a settler descendant who was born on Birrpai Country. In an ongoing collaboration with Birrpai historian John Heath, she has written about local and family histories of Indigenous-settler relations in the journal Life Writing, and the book, Burrawan: The Desecration and Resurrection of Lake Innes (2023).
Ben Hillman »
Ben Hillman is Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) and a specialist in politics, public policy and public administration in China. Ben is the author or editor of several books on China, including Patronage and Power (2014), and Conflict and Protest in Tibet and Xinjiang (2016). He is also Editor of The China Journal — the world’s number one-ranked journal in China Studies. In 2023 he is editor of the China Story Yearbook, which is published by ANU Press.
Chien-wen Kou »
Chien-wen Kou is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of Political Science and the Graduate Institute of East Asian Studies at National Chengchi University, Taiwan. He has been serving as the Director of the Institute of International Relations in the same university since August 2017. His primary research interests include Chinese politics, political elites, and comparative communist studies. He has written or coedited Elites and Governance in China (2013), Choosing China’s Leaders (2014), The Strategic Options of Middle Powers in the Asia-Pacific (2022), and several other books in Chinese.
Lior Rosenberg »
Lior Rosenberg is a political sociologist specialising in contemporary China. He is a teaching associate at the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel Aviv University and a research fellow at the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. His research interests include Chinese rural society, China’s public administration and the urbanisation of rural China.
Melissa Demian »
Melissa Demian is a senior lecturer in social anthropology at the University of St Andrews. For over 20 years she has conducted research in rural and urban Papua New Guinea and published on subjects including village courts and property disputing, customary law, kinship and social organisation, the country’s colonial and legal history, and the intersection of gender and urbanisation. She is the author of, most recently, In Memory of Times to Come: Ironies of History in Southeastern Papua New Guinea.
Julien Louys »
Julien Louys is Deputy Director of the Australian Research Centre for Human Evolution at Griffith University. His research has focused on examining the mammal fossil record at several scales, from phenotypes, whole organisms, to entire communities to provide the most holistic understanding of the interaction between species, including humans, and their environments. He recently completed an Australian Research Council Future Fellowship on Sumatra’s role in ancient human movements and evolution.
ANU Historical Journal II »
The ANU Historical Journal II (ANUHJ II) is an open-access, peer-reviewed academic history journal of the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific. It is a revival of the ANU Historical Journal, which was published between 1964 and 1987. Contributors to
Raghbendra Jha »
Raghbendra Jha (PhD, Columbia, FWIF) was Professor of Economics and Executive Director, Australia South Asia Research Centre in the Arndt-Corden Department of Economics, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University. He published widely in the areas of development economics, public economics, welfare economics and macroeconomics with a country specialisation in India. He taught at Columbia University and Williams College in the US, Queen’s University in Canada, University of Warwick in the UK, Delhi School of Economics, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and Indira Gandhi Institute of Development Research, Mumbai.
Michael Wood »
Michael Wood has over 40 years of experience working as an anthropologist in the Western Province of PNG. Much of Wood’s research in PNG has been concerned with the politics and policies of resource development, especially in the forestry sector.
Rosita Henry »
Rosita Henry is a Professor of Anthropology, James Cook University. Her research concerns the relationships between people and places in Australia and the Pacific.
Anna Hayes »
Anna Hayes is a senior lecturer in International Relations, James Cook University. She is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the East Asia Security Centre.
Anne Ford »
Anne Ford is an Associate Professor in the Archaeology Program at the University of Otago.
Ben Shaw »
Ben Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language at The Australian National University.
Robert Freestone »
Robert Freestone FASSA FAHA is a Professor of Planning in the School of Built Environment at the University of New South Wales and a City Futures Research Centre Fellow. He is a former president of the International Planning History Society and co-author and editor of several books, including Campus (2023), Designing the Global City (2019), Planning Metropolitan Australia (2018), Urban Nation: Australia’s Planning Heritage (2010), Urban Planning in a Changing World (2000), and Spirited Cities (2004).
Bill Randolph »
Bill Randolph FASSA is Professor at the University of New South Wales. At City Futures, he undertakes research specialising in housing policy, housing markets and affordability, urban renewal, and metropolitan planning policy issues. Bill has more than 40 years’ experience as a researcher of housing and urban policy issues in the academic, government, nongovernmental, and private sectors. He was the inaugural convenor of the State of Australian Cities conference series and chair of the 2003 State of Australian Cities Conference.
Wendy Steele »
Wendy Steele is Professor of Sustainability and Urban Policy and leads the Critical Urban Governance research program in the Centre for Urban Research, RMIT University, Melbourne. Her recent books include Planning Wild Cities: Human–Nature Relationships in the Urban Age (2020), Quiet Activism: Climate Action at the Local Scale (2021), and The Sustainable Development Goals and Higher Education: A Transformative Agenda? (2021). She was a chair of the 2021 State of Australasian Cities Conference and President of the Australasian Cities Research Network.
Jack Vowles »
Jack Vowles is a Professor at Te Herenga Waka–Victoria University of Wellington, has led the New Zealand Election Study since 1996, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society Te Apārangi. His research is mainly on New Zealand and comparative electoral behaviour. He is co-author of Democracy Under Siege? Parties, Voters, and Elections After the Great Recession (Oxford University Press, 2020).
Murray Chisholm »
Murray Chisholm completed his PhD in History at ANU in 2019. He is a secondary school teacher, school leader and curriculum developer for the Australian Capital Territory.
Paul C.H. Albers »
Paul C.H. Albers has done extensive research in the Dubois archives, including his book Through Eugène Dubois’ Eyes, Stills of a Turbulent Life (Brill, 2010), and participated in archaeological and palaeontological excavations in the Philippines and Indonesia. His book disclosing over 2,000 letters of The correspondence of Eugène Dubois (1888–1900) is currently in press.
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer »
Alexandra A.E. van der Geer is a Researcher at Naturalis Biodiversity Center and Research Associate of Leiden University. Her main research focus is on the evolution, extinction, and biogeography of mammals on islands. Other areas of interest include introduced species, brain evolution, and ethnozoology of South Asia. Her books include Evolution of Island Mammals (Wiley-Blackwell, 2021) and Animals in Stone (Brill, 2008).
Biography Series »
The National Centre for Biography in the History Program in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University hosts the Biography Series. The National Centre was established in 2008 to extend the work of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and to serve as a focus for
Martin Gascoigne »
Martin Gascoigne was Rosalie Gascoigne’s son and shared her interest in art. He studied history with Manning Clark at The Australian National University and afterwards worked primarily in the Department of Defence on intelligence matters and relations with the United States and South-East Asia.
Deborah Bird Rose »
Deborah Bird Rose (1946–2018) was an Australian-based anthropologist who worked with Indigenous Australians and an internationally renowned scholar in environmental humanities, focusing on multi-species ethnography and extinction studies. Her research analysed the entwined issues of social and ecological justice, based on long-term relationships, especially with Indigenous people in the Victoria River region and more broadly in the Northern Territory. She worked with Indigenous Australians on many land claims. This book completes her envisaged trilogy, with Hidden Histories (1991) and Dingo Makes Us Human (1992), both widely acclaimed, respectively winning the Jessie Litchfield and Stanner prizes.