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.
Maria Taylor »
Maria Taylor is an award-winning journalist and former documentary film-maker whose work over more than three decades in both Australia and the United States has focused on sustainable resource management and environmental issues. The book builds on research conducted for a PhD (communications) at the National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science of The Australian National University. Her multi-disciplinary investigation of the public record and the input of science, politics, economics, journalism and contemporary mass media has revealed for the first time how and why Australia buried a once good understanding of global warming and climate change — to arrive after 25 years at the confusion and stalemate we are still in today. The book is written for both a general audience and interested scholars. Taylor lives and works in regional NSW near the national capital, where she publishes a monthly community newspaper The District Bulletin.
Paul Wyrwoll »
Paul Wyrwoll is an environmental and energy economist at The Australian National University. His main research focus is management of the environmental impacts of hydropower dams. He also works on climate change mitigation, water security, and biodiversity conservation. Paul is Managing Editor of the Global Water Forum.
David Allendes »
David Allendes is an environmental management professional whose principal focus is the water sector. He holds a Master of Environmental Management and Development and a Master of Diplomacy from The Australian National University. David is an Associate Editor of the Global Water Forum and contributes to the teaching of courses on water resources management at The Australian National University.
Chris White »
Chris White is an environmental economist at URS, London where his main area is working with the public and private sector on valuing the services provided by the environment in order to improve decision making and account for impacts on natural capital. Chris is also a Research Associate at the Centre for Water Economics, Environment and Policy, The Australian National University and Managing Editor of the Global Water Forum.
Heather Keith »
Heather Keith is a Research Fellow at the Fenner School of Environment and Society in the field of forest ecology. Her research encompasses measurement of the carbon cycle, development of methods for carbon accounting, the role of natural forests in the global carbon cycle, and implications for greenhouse science policy.
Brendan Mackey »
Brendan Mackey is a professor of environmental science in the Fenner School of Environment and Society, The Australian National University. His research, teaching and outreach are in the fields of environmental biogeography, ecosystem dynamics, and sustainability. Prof Mackey serves on the Science Advisory Panel to the Australian Government’s Climate Commission. He is a member of the IUCN Council, serves as co-Chair of the Council of Earth Charter International, and is a member of the editorial board of Pacific Conservation Biology. Brendan as published over 120 academic articles including two ANU Press books on “Green Carbon”.
Matthew Gray »
Matthew Gray is Director and Professor at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University, and Director of Research in the College of Arts and Social Science at The Australian National University.
Colin D. Butler »
Professor Colin Butler is based at the University of Canberra, and is also a Visiting Fellow at NCEPH at the ANU. In 1989, he and his late wife, Susan co-founded BODHI (Benevolent Organisation for Development, Health & Insight). In 2014, he co-founded Health-Earth (www.canberra.edu.au/centres/ceraph/H-earth). Colin has published widely, including on health, sustainability, justice, conflict and engaged Buddhism. He was a co-ordinating lead author for the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment. In 2009, he was named one of ‘100 doctors for the planet’ by the French Environmental Health Association. Butler edited Climate Change and Global Health (CABI, 2014). His collaboration with Tony McMichael started in 1993.
Anthony G. Capon »
Professor Anthony G. Capon directs the International Institute for Global Health at United Nations University, based in Kuala Lumpur. Tony is a public health physician and an authority on environmental health and health promotion. Since 2008, he has been working with the International Council for Science to develop the global interdisciplinary science programme on health and well-being in the changing urban environment using systems approaches. Tony has held National Health and Medical Research Council and World Health Organization fellowships, as well as leadership roles with the Australasian Faculty of Public Health Medicine and the International Society for Urban Health.
Jane Dixon »
Jane Dixon is Senior Fellow at the National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health, The Australian National University. Her research takes place at the intersection of sociology and public health and focuses on transformations within national food systems and the sociocultural determinants of health transitions. She has advised numerous bodies on adopting a food system perspective, including the International Union on Health Promotion and Education and the Western Pacific Regional Office of WHO. Recent books include When Culture Impacts Health (Elsevier) and Weight of Modernity (Springer). She is currently researching for a new book, The Culinary Footprint (Bloomsbury).
Malcolm Allbrook »
Malcolm Allbrook was born in Uganda and spent his childhood in East Africa, England and the United States before moving to Western Australia with his family as a twelve-year-old. He initially studied Classics and Ancient History at the University of Western Australia and then worked with the Western Australian government, the Kimberley Land Council and the Yamatji Marlpa Land and Sea Council. In 2005 he started a PhD at Griffith University and was awarded his doctorate in history in 2009. After working in Western Australia as a freelance historian and exhibition curator, he moved to Canberra where he was employed in the School of History, The Australian National University (ANU). He is currently Managing Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the National Centre of Biography at ANU.
Dr Anita Strezova »
Dr Anita Strezova is a Byzantine scholar specialising in all aspects of Byzantine history, theology and art history. She has completed a Bachelor in Theology (I Class Honours), Honours Degree of Master of Arts at Macquarie University, Sydney and Doctor of Philosophy in Art History and Curatorship at The Australian National University. She is a Visiting Scholar at the Department of Art History, The Australian National University and Research Consultant for various organisations.
Will Steffen »
During his 35-year career in the mountains, Will Steffen, a Canberra resident, has climbed on every continent except Antarctica and has combined rockclimbing in Australia with alpine climbing in New Zealand and expedition climbing in the Himalaya. He was a member of the 1988 Australian Baruntse Expedition. He has a keen interest in the development of Australian mountaineering, and has written two surveys of Australian Himalayan climbing as well as profiles of several leading Australian climbers.
In his academic life, Will Steffen is Executive Director of the Climate Change Institute at The Australian National University, Canberra, and also serves as a Climate Commissioner. From 1998 to mid-2004, he served as Executive Director of the International Geosphere-Biosphere Programme, based in Stockholm, Sweden. His research interests span a broad range within the fields of climate change and Earth System science, with an emphasis on incorporation of human processes in Earth System modelling and analysis; and on sustainability, climate change and the Earth System.
Nicholas Tapp »
Under a Chiang Ching-kuo Research Project, ‘Communal Diasporic Voluntary Public Cultures’, Nicholas Tapp examined the impact of returns of overseas Hmong migrants to their Asian homelands, in collaboration with Dr Gary Yia Lee. They worked in China, Thailand, Laos and Australia, as well as France and the USA. An Emeritus Professor of ANU, Nicholas was mainly based in Shanghai where he continued his research on ethnic issues in China and also assisted East China Normal University in Shanghai to develop a new programme of anthropology.
Dr Nicholas Tapp passed away in October 2015.
Barbara Dawson »
Dr Barbara Dawson worked for the Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, School of History, in the Research School of Social Sciences at The Australian National University from 1999 to 2011. She is now a School Visitor to the School of History, ANU. She has written widely on Australian colonial history.
Maxine Montaigne »
Maxine Montaigne was a Research Officer at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy at The Australian National University and is currently a PhD Student in Economic Research History at the London School of Economics.
Peter Read »
Peter Read is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the Department of History, University of Sydney, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, ANU. Currently he is researching a history of Aboriginal Sydney, and is slowly building the website historyofaboriginalsydney.edu.au.
Frances Peters-Little »
Frances Peters-Little is a Kamilaroi/Uralarai woman and Research Fellow at ANU. Before coming to Canberra, she was a filmmaker for the ABC and left in 1995 after working on more than 18 documentaries as researcher, producer and director. The film she is best known for was Tent Embassy, which screened for the True Stories series on the ABC and won a Sundance Award. She was the Australian producer for the international documentary co-production the Storytellers of the Pacific series. Today Frances Peters-Little spends most of her time writing, and is currently in the final stages of her book entitled The Return of the Noble Savage: By Popular Demand. She is also working on her second book, the official biography on the life of her father, Jimmy Little, which is expected to be published by ABC Books. Her other projects include the ARC Discovery projects Unsettling Histories (2004) and A Historical Study of Indigenous Higher Education Centres in Australia (2002).
Shino Konishi »
Dr Shino Konishi is a fellow in the Australian Centre for Indigenous History in the School of History, ANU. She has been the editor of Aboriginal History since 2010.
Tiffany Shellam »
Tiffany Shellam is Senior Lecturer in History at Deakin University. She publishes on the history of encounters between Aboriginal people and Europeans in the contexts of exploration, early settlement and mission stations in the nineteenth century. Her book Shaking Hands on the Fringe: Negotiating the Aboriginal world at King George’s Sound was published by UWA Publishing in 2009.
Ian Keen »
After training and working in the visual arts, Ian Keen gained a BSc in anthropology at University College London (1973) and a PhD in anthropology at The Australian National University (1979). He has conducted anthropological fieldwork in northeast Arnhem Land, the Alligator Rivers region, and McLaren Creek in the Northern Territory of Australia, and in Gippsland, Victoria. He is the author of Knowledge and Secrecy in an Aboriginal Religion (Clarendon Press 1994), and Aboriginal Economy and Society (Oxford 2004) as well as many articles in journals and edited books, and he edited Being Black: Aboriginal Cultures in ‘Settled’ Australia and other collections of essays. His research interests have included Yolngu kinship and religion, Aboriginal land rights, Aboriginal economy, and language and culture. His current research includes the diversity and typology of Australian Aboriginal kinship systems as part of the Austkin project, and the language of property. He has lectured and supervised postgraduate students at the University of Queensland and The Australian National University, where he is now a Visiting Fellow.
Michael Pickering »
Michael Pickering is Head of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Program at the National Museum of Australia and leads the Museum’s repatriation program. He has previously worked as Head Curator with the Indigenous Cultures Program of Museum Victoria, Native Title Research Officer with Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Regional Officer with the Northern Territory Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority, as an anthropologist with the Northern Land Council, and as a consultant archaeologist and anthropologist.
Christopher Lloyd »
Christopher Lloyd is Professor of Economic History in the School of Business, Economics, and Public Policy at University of New England, Armidale, Australia. During 2007 to 2010 he spent several periods as a Visiting Professor in the Nordwel Centre at Helsinki University working on the worldwide history and diffusion of social democratic welfare capitalism.
Susy Frankel »
Susy Frankel is Professor of Law at Victoria University of Wellington, Director of the New Zealand Centre of International Economic Law and Chair of the Copyright Tribunal (NZ). She was Consultant Expert to Waitangi Tribunal on the WAI 262 flora fauna and indigenous intellectual property claim (Waitangi Tribunal Report, 2011 Ko Aotearoa Tēnei). Susy qualified as Barrister and Solicitor of the High Court of New Zealand in 1988 and as a Solicitor of England & Wales in 1991. She is a member of the Executive Committee of Association for the Advancement of Teaching and Research in Intellectual Property (ATRIP) and of the editorial boards of Journal of World Intellectual Property, Queen Mary Journal of Intellectual Property and the University of Western Australia Law Review.
Susy has been a visiting Professor at the University of Western Ontario 2012, the University of Iowa 2000, and Fellow of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge and visitor to the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law, University of Cambridge, 2008.
Her publications include Intellectual Property In New Zealand, 2nd ed Lexis Nexis (2011); Learning from the Past, Adapting for the Future: Regulatory Reform in New Zealand Lexis Nexis, (2011); with Meredith Kolsky Lewis International Economic Law and National Autonomy, Cambridge University Press (2010); “Challenging TRIPS – Plus FTAs – the Potential Utility of Non-Violation Complaints” (2009) 12(4) Journal of International Economic Law 1023-1065; “Trade Marks, Traditional Knowledge and Cultural Intellectual Property” in G B Dinwoodie and MD Janis (eds) Trade Mark Law and Theory: A Handbook of Contemporary Research (Edward Elgar Press, USA, 2007); “The WTO’s Application of ‘the Customary Rules of Interpretation of Public International Law’ to Intellectual Property” (2005) 46 Virginia Journal of International Law 365-428.
Ian D. Clark »
Ian D. Clark is a Professor of Tourism in the Faculty of Business, at Federation University Australia. He completed his PhD in Aboriginal Historical Geography at Monash University in 1992. His areas of interest include Victorian Aboriginal history, Indigenous tourism, the history of tourism, and Victorian toponyms. He has been publishing in Victorian Aboriginal history since 1982. Recent works include I.D. Clark and D. Cahir (eds), The Aboriginal Story of Burke and Wills: Forgotten Narratives (CSIRO Publishing, Melbourne, 2013); and I.D. Clark, ‘Prettily situated’ at Mungallook: A History of the Goulburn River Aboriginal Protectorate Station at Murchison, Victoria, 1840–1853 (Ballarat Heritage Services Publishing, Ballarat, 2013).