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.
Elizabeth Burns Coleman »
Dr Elizabeth Coleman is a lecturer in philosophy at the University of Wollongong. She holds a PhD in philosophy from ANU and has held a postdoctoral fellowship at the Centre for Cross Cultural Research, ANU. She has taught philosophy of art at ANU, and moral and political philosophy at La Trobe and Appropriation (2005) and has published articles on indigenous art in the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, the International Year Book of Aesthetics, and the Journal of Political Philosophy.
Maria Suzette Fernandes-Dias »
Dr Maria-Suzette Fernandez-Dias coordinates scholarly and research activities at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU. She holds a PhD in French (postcolonial literature) from the University of Goa, India. She has taught comparative literature, linguistics and francophone literature at the University of Goa, and has worked as the educational and cultural coordinator of Alliance Francaise de Goa, where she managed the AF Art Gallery. Her literary awards include the Victor- Hugo Bicentenary Award (2002), Ford Foundation Campus Diversity Award (1996), Oheraldo Award for Children’s literature (1989), and the Vidya Award (1995 & 1996).
Hilary Charlesworth »
Hilary Charlesworth is Professor and Director of the Centre for International Governance and Justice in the Regulatory Institutions Network at The Australian National University. She also holds an appointment as Professor of International Law and Human Rights in the College of Law, ANU. In 2005 she was awarded a Federation Fellowship by the Australian Research Council for a project on building democracy and justice after conflict. She has held visiting appointments at United States and European universities.
She was the inaugural President of the Australian and New Zealand Society of International Law (1997-2001). She was Co-Editor of the Australian Yearbook of International Law from1996-2006 and has been a member of the Board of Editors of the American Journal of International Law 1999-2009. She was joint winner of the American Society of International Law’s 2006 Goler T Butcher Medal in recognition of ‘outstanding contributions to the development or effective realization of international human rights law’.
She has worked with various non-governmental human rights organisations on ways to implement international human rights standards and was chair of the Australian Capital Territory government’s inquiry into an ACT bill of rights, which led to the adoption of the ACT Human Rights Act 2004. In 2009 she was appointed as one of the four Australian members of the Permanent Court of Arbitration.
Penelope Marshall »
Dr Penelope Marshall holds a PhD in Political Science and teaches at the Crawford School of Public Policy at The Australian National University.
Ben Marwick »
Ben Marwick is an Assistant Professor of archaeology in the UW Anthropology Department. His main research activity is using models from evolutionary ecology to analyse past human behaviour, especially in mainland Southeast Asia and Australia. Ben’s technical specializations in stone artefact technology and geoarchaeology provide him with wide scope in time periods and geography. His specific interests include the hominin colonisation of mainland Southeast Asia, forager technologies and ecology in Australia and mainland Southeast Asia, and transitions to agriculture in mainland Southeast Asia.
Karen Hughes »
Karen Hughes is Senior Lecturer in Indigenous Studies at Swinburne University of Technology. She has also taught at Monash University and the University of South Australia, and in 2011 was a Visiting Fellow at University Paris 13. Her research focuses on intimate and gendered histories of the contact zone in New World settler-colonial societies, incorporating transnational perspectives. She is currently involved in a cross-cultural collaborative project with Indigenous communities in southern Australia and the United States, as well as an intergenerational study with the Ngukurr community of South East Arnhem Land. Her research pursues de-colonising methodologies through a partnership approach to ethnography.
Vanessa Castejon »
Vanessa Castejon is an Associate Professor at University Paris 13. Her work explores Aboriginal political claims, self-determination and sovereignty, and the image of Aboriginal people in France/Europe. Her recent publications include an article on her ego-histoire, ‘Identity and Identification: Aboriginality from the Spanish Civil War to the French Ghettos’ in Passionate Histories: Myth, memory and Indigenous Australia, (Aboriginal History/ANU E Press, 2010), edited by Frances Peters-Little, Ann Curthoys and John Docker. Her book, Les Aborigènes et l'apartheid politique australien, was published by Harmattan in 2005.
Oliver Haag »
Oliver Haag has been engaged in Indigenous Studies for almost ten years. He first became interested in the relationship between Indigenous autobiographies and the re/writing of Australian history. He has started to research European translations and marketing of Australian Indigenous literature and the ‘translation’ of Indigeneity into European contexts. In his ego-histoire, he explores the impact of travelling on his Romany heritage.
Anna Cole »
Anna Cole was born in south west England to Anglo-Irish/Celtic parents. As a child she migrated with her parents and siblings to live on Nyungar land in Western Australia. She began learning about Indigenous history as a student at the University of Western Australia while involved in activism around a sacred Wagyl water source. Her previous edited collections include, Uncommon Ground: White Women in Aboriginal History (with Victoria Haskins and Fiona Paisley, Aboriginal Studies Press, 2005) and Tattoo: Bodies, Art and Exchange in the Pacific and the West (with Nicholas Thomas and Bronwen Douglas, Duke University Press, 2005). Her co-written film documenting Indigenous debutante balls in urban Sydney, Dancing with the Prime Minister (November Films, 2010), was short-listed for a UN Media Peace Award. She has two young children and lives in the UK, where she teaches post-colonial history and literature at Brighton University.
Ann Jones »
Ann Jones is a broadcaster and a social historian with an interest in trade union internationalism and the idealisation of Latin America in the anglophone world.
After completing her first school certificate in rural Chile, her second in regional Australia and the requisite academic studies, Ann spent five years investigating Chile Solidarity around the world. The research has taken her to labour archives and offices across three continents, where she pored over meeting minutes and recorded oral history interviews.
Michael J. Selgelid »
Professor Michael J. Selgelid earned a BS in Biomedical Engineering from Duke University and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of California, San Diego. He is Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash University in Melbourne; and an Academic Visitor in the School of Philosophy, Research School of Social Sciences at ANU. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Bioethics, and a member of the Scientific Committee of the Brocher Foundation. He serves on the Ethics Review Board of Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). He edits a book series in Public Health Ethics Analysis for Springer and a book series in Practical Ethics and Public Policy for ANU Press. He is Co-Editor of the journal Monash Bioethics Review and Associate Editor of Journal of Medical Ethics.
Clifford Sather »
Clifford Sather received his PhD in social anthropology from Harvard University in 1971. His principal publications include The Bajau Laut: Adaptation, History, and Fate in a Maritime Fishing Society of Southeastern Sabah (1997, Oxford UP) and Seeds of Play, Words of Power: An ethnographic study of Iban shamanic chants (2001, Tun Jugah Foundation & BRC). He is also co-editor (with James J. Fox) of Origins, Ancestors and Alliance: Explorations in Austronesian ethnography (1996, Australian National University) and (with Timo Kaartinen) of Beyond the Horizon: Essays on Myth, History, Travel and Society (2008, Finnish Literature Society). Dr. Sather taught and held research positions in Southeast Asia (Universiti Sains Malaysia, Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, and the National University of Singapore), Australia (Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, The Australian National University), Europe (University of Helsinki), and the United States (Vassar College, Reed College, and University of Oregon). He retired in 2005 as Professorial Fellow from the University of Helsinki, Finland. He is currently editor of the Borneo Research Bulletin, the annual journal of the Borneo Research Council, a position he has held since 1995.
Kevin Windle »
Kevin Windle is an Emeritus Fellow, formerly Associate Professor, in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at The Australian National University, where he lectured in Russian literature, language and translation studies. He has published numerous scholarly articles, including many on the early history of the Russian community in Australia, and a biography of Alexander Zuzenko. In 2014, he received the inaugural AALITRA Prize for literary translation; second prize in the John Dryden Translation Competition in 2015; and, in 2017, the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) Aurora Borealis Prize for the translation of non-fiction.
Satish Chand »
Satish Chand is Professor of Finance in the School of Business at the University of New South Wales Canberra. Satish is also an Adjunct Professor at the Australian National University and the University of South Pacific, and an Associate of the National Research Institute in Papua New Guinea. His research interests include labour migration, land reform, entrepreneurship and employment in fragile states, and the challenges of development. For the past three years, Satish has been researching the nexus between peace and prosperity, drawing on the experiences of external peacekeeping in Bougainville (PNG), East Timor, Liberia, Mozambique, and the Solomon Islands. This research has ramifications for pacification strategies in fragile states.
Bruno David »
Associate Professor Bruno David (ARC Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage) is an archaeologist at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, Monash University. He has worked and published extensively on collaborative cultural history projects with Indigenous communities across northern Australia and along the southern lowlands of Papua New Guinea, Vanuatu and the US. Together with co-editors Jean-Jacques Delannoy and Jean-Michel Geneste, he has pioneered ‘archaeomorphological’ approaches to rock art research, as developed in this volume. His latest book is Cave Art (Thames & Hudson, 2017).
Cameron Scott Mitchell »
Cameron Mitchell has a career background in Defence Intelligence. He has worked on a range of Defence related strategic issues, and deployed to Iraq as a Senior Intelligence Officer working in the Combined Intelligence Operation Centre in 2007. He holds an honours degree in history from the University of Sydney, and graduated with a Masters degree by research from the University of New South Wales. His academic focus includes Russian and Chinese military modernisation and defence reform. He has been published in Strategic Comments, through the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
Matthew Allen »
Matthew G. Allen is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University.
Brian Kennett »
Brian Kennett is currently Distinguished Professor of Seismology at the Research School of Earth Sciences, The Australian National University and was Director from September 2006 to January 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Theoretical Seismology from the University of Cambridge in 1973. He was a Lindemann Fellow at IGPP, University of California, San Diego and then a University Lecturer at the University of Cambridge. He moved to Australia in 1984, and was President of IASPEI from 1999-2003.
His research has covered a very wide range of topics in seismology, from reflection seismology to studies of the deep Earth and from theoretical to observational studies. He has received recognition through many medals and awards including the Gold Medal in Geophysics from the Royal Astronomical Society, the Gutenberg Medal from the European Geosciences Union, the Murchison Medal from the Geological Society of London, and the Jaeger and Flinders Medals from the Australian Academy of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Sciences and the Royal Society (London).
Jack Corbett »
Jack Corbett is Associate Professor in Politics at the University of Southampton; Honorary Associate Professor at the Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, The Australian National University; and Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Governance and Public Policy, Griffith University. He is the author of Being Political: Leadership and Democracy in the Pacific Islands (2015), Australia’s Foreign Aid Dilemma: Humanitarian Aspirations Confront Democratic Legitimacy (2017), and co-editor with Brij V. Lal of Political Life Writing in the Pacific: Reflections on Practice (2015).
Keith Woodward »
Keith Woodward was born in Ismailia, Egypt in 1930. He was educated at Probus School, Plymouth College and Keble College, Oxford, graduating in Modern History in 1951. In 1953 he joined the British National Service in the New Hebrides as office assistant, was promoted to be Assistant Secretary in 1957, and Administrative Officer, Class A in 1970. Woodward dealt with a wide variety of administrative matters during his twenty-five years at the British Residency, including Condominium Personnel, Agriculture, District Affairs, Land, Education, Health and Constitutional Development, holding the post of Secretary for Political Affairs from 1968, until his retirement (because of failing eyesight) in 1978. He had a major part in setting up the Port Vila Cultural Centre (1961–62), and was Hon. Secretary to the Board of Management for sixteen years. He was also much involved with the introduction of Scouting (under the aegis of the British Commonwealth Scouting Movement), serving from 1956 as secretary to the Scout Council and later as Chairman. Woodward was awarded the MBE in 1964, the OBE in 1976 and the Vanuatu Independence Medal in 1980. Keith lives in retirement in Bath.
Sheryn Lee »
Sheryn Lee is a doctoral candidate at the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, The Australian National University, and a non-resident WSD Handa Fellow at Pacific Forum, Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Honolulu. She holds an AM in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania, where she was a Benjamin Franklin Fellow and Mumford Fellow. Previously, she has been a researcher, tutor, and TB Millar scholar at the SDSC, and Robert O’Neill scholar at the International Institute of Strategic Studies-Asia in Singapore. She has previously published in Asian Security and Survival, and co-edited Insurgent Intellectual: Essays in Honour of Professor Desmond Ball (with Brendan Taylor and Nicholas Farrelly).
Yongjin Zhang »
Yongjia Zhang is Fellow in the Department of International Relations, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University. His publications include China in International Society since 1949—Alienation and beyond (1998) and 'System, empire and state in Chinese international relations', Review of International Studies (2001).
Greg Austin »
Greg Austin is Director of Research for the Brussels-based International Crisis Group. He has worked in other professional and academic posts in Canberra, Hong Kong and Washington. He is co-author of Japan and Greater China: Political economy and military power in the Asian century (with Stuart Harris, 2001); and Red Star East: The armed forces of Russia in Asia (with Alexey Muraviev, 2000); and author of China's Ocean Frontier: International law, military force and national development ( 1998).
Alex Millmow »
Before entering academia, Alex was an officer within the Federal Treasury. He is the founder and co-editor of the Journal of Economic and Social Policy. He has written opinion pieces for the Australian media, most particularly The Canberra Times, the Australian Financial Review and The Age. During the 1990s he wrote a series of papers highlighting the alarming fall in student numbers enrolling in economic degrees within Australia. One of his research interests is the sociology of the Australian economics profession and the contribution the profession makes to society.
Alex’s other research interests include the economics of Joan Robinson, the history of Australian economic though as expressed through its fine tradition of applied economists and the role of economic ideas in steering public policy. In 2004 he completed his doctorate at The Australian National University on “The power of economic ideas: the rise of macroeconomic management in Australia 1929-1939″. He is the current President of the History of Economic Thought Society of Australia (HETSA), member of the Editorial Board of Australian Universities Review and a council member of the Victorian Branch of the Economic Society of Australia. He is currently writing a biography of the Anglo-Australian economist Colin Clark.
Richard Lucas »
Dr Richard Lucas spent 17 years as an IT professional in both the public and private sectors. He has been in the tertiary sector for the past 22 years. He is the Head of Discipline for Information Systems at the University of Canberra and an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics.