Authors & editors
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Laura Kostanski »
Dr Laura Kostanski is the CEO and Director of Geonaming Solutions Pty Ltd. Her professional and research interests centre on developing robust geospatial, addressing and geographic naming policies and systems for government and private clients at national and international levels. She is a Churchill Fellow, an Adjunct Research Fellow at Federation University Australia, a Member of the Open Geospatial Consortium, a Director of the International Council of Onomastic Sciences, has been an Australian representative to the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographic Names and recently was successful in collaborating to receive an Australian Research Council Linkage Grant. Laura has been Research Manager and Gazetteer Expert for the CSIRO Spatial Identifier Reference Framework (SIRF) program which examined methods for reengineering gazetteer development, maintenance and output processes with a key focus on Indonesia. In her previous role as Project Manager at the Office of Geographic Names Victoria (OGN Vic) she was involved in policy development, governance and stakeholder engagement in the spatial science domain and was involved in the development of the new Guidelines for Geographic Names Victoria. Laura is currently working on geonaming policy projects for the State Government of New South Wales and the Government of Abu Dhabi.
Shirley Gregor »
Shirley Gregor is Professor of Information Systems and Head of the School of Business and Information Management, Faculty of Economics and Commerce, and Head of the National Centre for Information Systems Research at The Australian National University. Her research work has been widely published in many articles in international and national journals and conferences.
Roger Clarke »
Roger Clarke is a consultant on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, and dataveillance and privacy. His 40-year career has been variously as professional, manager, consultant, academic and company director.
He has published several hundred papers, over a hundred of them in the refereed literature. Most of them are available on his personal web-site at http://www.rogerclarke.com/, which has accumulated over 40 million hits since it was launched in 1995. His Google citation-counts are at http://scholar.google.com.au/citations?user=V3s6CWYAAAAJ.
He holds degrees in Information Systems from UNSW, and a doctorate from the ANU. He has been a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society since 1986 and of the international Association for Information Systems since 2012. He is a Visiting Professor at UNSW (in cyberspace law and policy) and at the ANU (in computer science).
In 2009, he was awarded the second-ever Australian Privacy Medal, following Justice Michael Kirby the previous year.
Geoffrey Borny »
Geoffrey Borny is a currently a Visiting Fellow and member of the Emeritus Faculty at The Australian National University having recently retired from the position of Reader and Head of Theatre Studies. His publications include a monograph entitled Modern American Drama and a verse translation into English of Racine’s comedy Les Plaideurs entitled Petty Sessions. His research interests include the study of Shakespearean acting and staging conventions and the works of Tennessee Williams. Besides being an academic, he is both an actor and director and has received a number of awards for his work in these areas.
Yon Machmudi »
Yon Machmudi received his Ph.D from the Faculty of Asian Studies, The Australian National University (ANU) Canberra in 2007, specializing in Islam in Southeast Asia. He then joined as a researcher the Transliteration Project at the Department of History, National University of Singapore (2005-2006) and the contemporary Islam in Southeast Asia Project at ANU (2006). He conducted a research on the Spiritual Journey Project in collaboration with the University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA (2008-2009). His current research is on the Perceptions of Indonesia in the Middle East (2010-2011) and the Decline of Kyais’ Authority in Pesantren (2011-2012). He is now a lecturer at the Arabic Studies Program, Faculty of Humanities, University of Indonesia and the head of the research and training department at the Central for Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Indonesia. His recent publications are “The emergence of New Santri in Indonesia, Journal of Indonesian Islam, vol. 02, number 01, June 2008, “Influences of Tasawwuf toward Ikhwanul Muslimin Movement (1928-1949),” Journal of Arabia, vol. 11 no. 22 October 2008-March 2009, Islamising Indonesia: the Rise of Jemaah Tarbiyah and the Prosperous Justice Party, Anu E-press 2008 and “Intellectuals or Housemaids: the Perception of Indonesia in Saudi Arabia” Journal of Arabia, vol. 12 no. 22 March 2009-October 2009.
Aurelia George Mulgan »
Professor Aurelia George Mulgan graduated BA Auckland, BA Hons, and MA Victoria University of Wellington. After graduate studies at Osaka University of Foreign Studies and Tokyo University, Professor George Mulgan completed a PhD at ANU in Japanese Politics. Prior to joining the University of New South Wales in 1985, she was a Research Fellow in the Australia-Japan Research Centre at ANU. In 1990 she was awarded the J.G. Crawford Award at ANU for outstanding work in Japanese political economy, in 2001 an Ohira Memorial Prize for her book on Japanese agricultural politics, and in 2010 the Toshiba Prize for the best article published in the British Association of Japanese Studies journal Japan Forum. In 1989-90, she held a Japan Foundation Fellowship for the study of US-Japan relations, in 1993, an Advanced Research Fellowship at Harvard University’s Program on US-Japan Relations, and in 1994-95 an Abe Fellowship for work on Japan and international peacekeeping. She has held visiting research or teaching positions at the Research Institute for Peace and Security in Tokyo, the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies at the University of Oxford, Nanzan University, the University of Tsukuba and The Australian National University. In 2002 she was a Senior Fellow in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, ANU and in 2005, a Harold White Fellow at the National Library of Australia. In 2004, 2009 and 2013 she was awarded three-year Australian Research Council Discovery Project grants for work on Japanese political economy.
Professor George Mulgan has published on many aspects of Japanese politics, foreign and defence policies. She is the author of The Politics of Agriculture in Japan (Routledge 2000), Japan’s Failed Revolution: Koizumi and the Politics of Economic Reform (ANU Press 2002), Japan’s Interventionist State: MAFF and the Agricultural Policy Regime (Routledge/Curzon 2005), Japan’s Agricultural Policy Regime (RoutledgeCurzon 2006), Power and Pork: A Japanese Political Life (ANU Press 2006) and Ozawa Ichiro and Japanese Politics: Old Versus New (Routledge 2014). She is also the co-editor of The Political Economy of Japanese Trade Policy (Palgrave Macmillan 2015).
Jane Simpson »
Jane Simpson is Chair of Indigenous Linguistics and Head of the School of Language Studies at The Australian National University. She works on Australian Aboriginal languages, especially syntax and semantics, but also place-names, dictionaries, land-claims, kinship systems, and reconstructing what languages were like from old written sources. She is currently working on a longitudinal study of Aboriginal children learning their first language. Other projects include a computational grammar of Indonesian, work on intercultural communication, and Australian English lexicons.
Glenn Patmore »
Glenn Patmore is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Melbourne Law School, where he teaches courses in law and democracy and constitutional law. He has degrees from Monash University and Queens University (Canada). He is a member of the Center for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
Malcolm Ross »
Malcolm specialises in Austronesian and Papuan historical linguistics, as well as conducting research in wider issues in historical linguistics, particularly methodology and contact-induced change.
His first degree was a BA (Hons) degree in English Literature at the University of Bristol (1963). He taught English first in Bristol, UK, then at Keravat National High school in Papua New Guinea.
From 1975 to 1980 Malcolm taught Language Studies and trained high-school teachers at Goroka Teachers’ College, a campus of the University of PNG, where he was Principal from 1980-82. While in PNG he started to collect language data, focussing on the comparative Austronesian study which led to his 1986 ANU PhD on the histories of Admiralties and Western Oceanic languages. Since then Malcolm has held a number of positions in the Linguistics department of the then Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies (now College of Asia and the Pacific) at ANU, as well as visiting professorships at Frankfurt University, the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, and the Academia Sinica, Taipei. He was a Christensen Fellow at St Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, in Trinity Term 2005. In 2009 he was Collitz Professor of Historical Linguistics at the Linguistic Society of America’s Summer Institute at UC Berkeley. He retired at the end of 2007, but continue to conduct research as an Emeritus Professor at ANU.
Malcolm’s interest in the history of Oceanic languages has continued unabated, and over the past ten years or so has been channelled into the Oceanic Lexicon Project and its publications. However, his field of interest has expanded in two directions, first into the history of the Austronesian languages of Taiwan and then into the histories of the Papuan languages of New Guinea, especially the Trans-New Guinea family.
Andrew Pawley »
Andrew Pawley is Professor in the Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University. He works on Austronesian and Papuan languages. His main theoretical interests are in understanding the nature of idiomatic command of a language.
Mary Anne Jebb »
Mary Anne Jebb is a Research Fellow at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies. Previously, she was the Research Associate and Project Manager for the ARC Linkage project ‘Deepening Histories of Place’ at The Australian National University. She researches and writes in areas of Australian history, medical history, women’s history and Indigenous history. She has particular interest in the recording and use of spoken histories and sound for increasing understanding and participation in Australian history. Her books, sound productions and exhibitions include ‘Across The Great Divide; Gender Relations On Australian Frontiers’ with Anna Haebich (1992), Emerarra: A Man of Merarra (1996), Blood Sweat and Welfare (2002), Mowanjum (2008), ‘Noongar Voices’ with Bill Bunbury (2010), ‘Burlganyja Wanggaya’ (2012) and ‘Singing The Train’ (2014). She is working on a monograph biography and analysis of the visual narrative artworks of deceased Aboriginal artist and historian Jack Wherra.
Renata Grossi »
Renata Grossi is an interdisciplinary legal scholar at the Herbert & Valmae Freilich Foundation, at The Australian National University.
Louise Williams »
Louise Williams is an Australian journalist who has covered Asia for more than a decade, based in the Philippines, Thailand and Indonesia. She has worked primarily for the sister publications, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, but has also written for The Independent (London), The Observer (London), as well as filing reports for the BBC World Service. In 1999 she was part of the Herald's team covering East Timor which won the Walkley Award for excellence in journalism for coverage of the Asia Pacific region. In 1994 she won the Citibank Pan Asia Journalism Award in conjunction with Colombia University. She has written two books on the region and contributed to several others.
Roland Rich »
Roland Rich, an Australian national, is Executive Head of the United Nations Democracy Fund (UNDEF), a United Nations General Trust Fund, with the primary purpose of supporting democratisation around the world. It supports projects that strengthen the voice of civil society, promote human rights, and encourage the participation of all groups in democratic processes. Mr Rich is concurrently Officer-in-Charge of the United Nations Office for Partnerships (UNOP) which serves as a gateway for partnership opportunities with the UN family.
Mr Rich brings to the job over 30 years of experience as a diplomat, a scholar and a democracy promotion practitioner. Prior to his appointment to UNDEF, Mr Rich was at the Centre for Defence and Strategic Studies of the Australian Defence College, teaching and mentoring colonel-level officers undertaking a master’s degree in international relations. In 2005, Mr Rich was a research Fellow at the National Endowment for Democracy in Washington DC. Between 1998 and 2005, Mr Rich was the Director of the Centre for Democratic Institutions at The Australian National University which is Australia’s democracy promotion institute undertaking projects in the Asia-Pacific region. Mr Rich joined the Australian foreign service in 1975 and had postings in Paris, Rangoon, Manila and, from 1994-1997, as Australian Ambassador to Laos. He has also served as Legal Advisor and Assistant Secretary for International Organisations in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
Mr Rich has contributed to the scholarly literature on democracy and democracy promotion. In 2004, together with Edward Newman, he edited The UN Role in Promoting Democracy published by United Nations University Press which examined the areas of comparative advantage the UN had in this field. His most recent book, in 2007, is Pacific Asia in Quest of Democracy published by Lynne Rienner Publishers which surveys the current state of democratic consolidation among the countries along Asia’s Pacific Rim.
John Spurway »
Dr John Spurway, an Australian of Irish, Latvian and English descent, has a Master of Arts in French Studies from the University of Sydney and a Master of Letters in Australian history from the University of New England. He is also a Doctor of Philosophy from The Australian National University, Canberra, and since 1992 has been a Fellow of the Society of Australian Genealogists. This book is the result of more than a decade’s archival research and fieldwork in Fiji, Tonga, Australia, New Zealand, Vanuatu and the United Kingdom. The author of several articles on Fijian and Tongan history that have appeared in the Journal of Pacific History and elsewhere, John now divides his time between Australia and Europe.
David Martin »
Dr David Martin is an independent applied anthropologist, working through Anthropos Consulting, as well as being a visiting scholar at the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University. He was previously a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR), and for a decade prior to that a Research Fellow there. His research and applied interests are focused on Aboriginal Australia, and include welfare reform, alcohol issues, economic and community development, native title, and governance. He has provided policy advice on settling native title claims and undertaken reviews of connection reports for Native Title Representative Bodies as well as for government agencies in Western Australia, South Australia and Victoria. He has also researched at the CAEPR on the capacity of mining agreements to deliver sustainable development outcomes for Aboriginal people, and more generally has undertaken extensive research and applied work on Aboriginal governance issues, including those relating to Prescribed Bodies Corporate and mining agreement-related trusts and corporations.
David Martin has considerable experience in delivering professional development courses for public servants, lawyers, anthropologists, mining company employees, and Aboriginal organisations. He is actively involved in outreach for the profession of anthropology, having served until recently for several years on the Executive of the Australian Anthropological Society, and has been involved in mentoring anthropologists in Aboriginal organizations and government agencies. He is a forceful advocate for the practice of an ‘engaged anthropology’ which is not just concerned with academic critique and analysis, but is actively involved in development and other contemporary issues.
Hirofumi Matsumura »
Hirofumi Matsumura is a physical anthropologist in the School of Health Science, Sapporo Medical University, Japan. During a 30-year research career, he has worked on numerous excavations in East/Southeast Asia. His bioanthropological analysis of archaeological skeletal remains has focused on prehistoric human migration, with particular emphasis on population history and movement during the Neolithic transition in Mainland and Island Southeast Asia.
Ann Moyal »
Dr Ann Moyal is a leading historian of science. She has written some ten books and many papers on social and institutional aspects of science, telecommunications, technology, and science policy in Australia for which she was made a Member of the Order of Australia and awarded the Centenary Medal. Her recent books include the prize-winning Platypus, the Extraordinary story of how a curious creature baffled the world. She has taught and researched in several Australian Universities, including The Australian National University, the New South Wales Institute of Technology, and Griffith University, Queensland. She married Joe Moyal in 1963.
Dennis Trewin »
Dennis Trewin, AO FASSA, was the Australian Statistician from July 2000 to January 2007. Prior to that he was Deputy Australian Statistician and Deputy Government Statistician in New Zealand. He has also been an Australian Electoral Commissioner. He was President of the International Statistical Institute, and has recently been working as a statistical consultant on international assignments.
Peter Carroll »
Peter Carroll is a research Professor in the Faculty of Business at the University of Tasmania. He has produced a range of books and journal articles on a wide variety of topics in policy and public administration in a career that began in the UK, moved to Fiji then to Australia. In particular, he has had an ongoing interest in the study of intergovernmental relations and regulatory reform, co-authoring ‘Microeconomic Reform and Federalism’, with Martin Painter and, with Helen Silver, Rex Deighton-Smith and Ron Walker ‘Minding the Gap – Appraising the promise performance of regulatory reform in Australia’ (ANU Press 2008). Much of his work reflects a life-long interest in the government regulation of business, especially at the international level, resulting in the book ‘Regulating International Business’ (Pearson Prentice Hall 2008), an edited work produced with Richard Eccleston. He has been a chief investigator on a number of ARC Discovery grants, one focused on the importance of policy transfer in policy making and he is currently editing a book on recent developments in policy transfer. In recent years his attention has focused on international organisations and the rapidly increasing international activities of government agencies traditionally regarded as ‘domestic’ in orientation. His most recent book (with Aynsley Kellow), ‘The OECD – A study of organisational adaptation’ (Edward Elgar 2011), is the first detailed, historical study of the OECD, which celebrates its fiftieth birthday in 2011. At present he is working on a study of Australian involvement with the UN specialised agencies, to be published by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in 2011.
Patrick Kilby »
Dr Patrick Kilby is a political scientist with the School of Archaeology and Anthropology in the College of Arts and Social Sciences at The Australian National University. His research interests include NGOs, poverty and women’s empowerment in international development. He worked for Oxfam Australia for 20 years prior to coming to ANU and has had an association with the Australian Council for International Development since 1983. He has served on many of ACFID’s committees, and was a part of some of the events described in this book. He currently represents ANU on the ACFID Universities network.
David Russell Lawrence »
David Russell Lawrence is an anthropologist who has managed environmental programs in Melanesia and Southeast Asia for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority. His most recent book was a re-examination of the place in Melanesian anthropology of the Finnish sociologist Gunnar Landtman who spent two years working with the Kiwai people of the lower Fly estuary. He recently managed a large-scale survey of 300 communities in the Solomon Islands for the Community Sector Program and has assisted with a number of the annual RAMSI People’s Surveys in the islands. This work has given him insight into the colonial heritage of the Solomon Islands and a desire to tell the story of the establishment of the British Solomon Islands Protectorate through the eyes of the first Resident Commissioner, Charles Morris Woodford.
Barry Traill »
Dr. Barry Traill is a leading Australian conservationist. An ecological researcher and conservation advocate, he has been part of several successful conservation projects, such as the advocacy to stop large scale land clearing in Queensland. He has worked particularly on the conservation of woodlands in southern and northern Australia. He is a co-author of ‘The Nature of Northern Australia.’
Dr. Traill is currently Director of the Wild Australia Program, for Pew Environment Group- Australia.
John Woinarski »
John Woinarski has been involved in research, management, advocacy and policy relating to biodiversity conservation, particularly in relation to threatened species, in Australia since the 1970s. Much of this work has been undertaken in northern Australia, with a particular focus on threatened mammal species, but his research and management has also considered plants, invertebrates, birds, reptiles, the impacts of fire, pastoralism, forestry, mining and invasive species, monitoring, survey design, Indigenous land management, reserve design, translocations, and islands. This work has been recognised with the Eureka Prize for biodiversity research (2001), the Serventy Medal (for lifetime contribution to Australian ornithology) (2001), the Northern Territory Chief Minister’s Award for Research and Innovation (2008), and the Australian Natural History Medallion (2012). Until 2011, he was executive director of the biodiversity division of the Northern Territory government’s environment department, but then moved to Christmas Island. From 2003 to 2012, he was a member of the Threatened Species Scientific Committee, which provides advice to the Australian minister for the environment on conservation issues relating to threatened species. He is currently employed part-time as Professor in the Research Institute for the Environment and Livelihoods, Charles Darwin University, and within the North Australian Hub of the National Environmental Research Program.
Frank Fenner »
Frank Fenner was born in Ballarat, Victoria in 1914. He read medicine at the University of Adelaide, receiving Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Surgery degrees in 1938 and a Doctor of Medicine in 1942. He also received a Diploma of Tropical Medicine from the University of Sydney in 1940. Between 1940 and 1946 he served in Egypt and Papua New Guinea as an officer in the Australian Army Medical Corps, where he worked on the malarial parasite.
After the war, he went to the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, where he studied the virus that causes smallpox in mice. In 1949, on a fellowship at the Rockefeller Institute in New York, USA, he worked on tubercle bacilli. Returning to Australia in 1949, he was appointed Professor of Microbiology at the new John Curtin School of Medical Research at The Australian National University. Here he began studying viruses again, in particular the myxoma virus. He was interested in the balance between virus virulence and host resistance.
Prof Fenner was Director of the John Curtin School from 1967 to 1973. During this time he was also Chairman of the Global Commission for the Certification of Smallpox Eradication. In 1973 Prof Fenner was appointed to set up the new Centre for Resource and Environmental Studies at ANU. He held the position of Director until 1979.
Prof Fenner was elected to the fellowship of numerous faculties and academies, including Foundation Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (1954), Fellow of the Royal Society (1958), and Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences (1977).
During his career, Prof Fenner received many awards. Among these are the Britannica Australia Award for Medicine (1967), the Australia and New Zealand Association for the Advancement of Science Medal (1980), the World Health Organization Medal (1988), the Japan Prize (1988), the Senior Australian Achiever of the Year (1999), the Albert Einstein World Award for Science (2000), and the Prime Minister’s Science Prize (2002).
He passed away in late 2010.