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.
John Weckert »
John Weckert is a Professorial Fellow at the Centre of Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics and Professor of Computer Ethics, Charles Sturt University. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Springer journal Nanoethics: Ethics for Technologies that Converge at the Nanoscale.
Sue Feary »
Sue Feary is an archaeologist with more than 30 years experience in managing cultural and natural heritage and working with Indigenous Australians. From the mid-1980s she was employed by the then NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service as a cultural heritage manager responsible for providing specialist advice on conservation of Aboriginal and historic heritage in southeastern Australia.
Sue was the first chair of a cultural heritage working group, one of several working groups established under the 1986 Memorandum of Understanding for cooperative management of national parks in the Australian Alps, stretching across NSW, Victoria and ACT. She assisted in organising a major conference on the cultural heritage of the Australian Alps held in 1991.
In 1994, Sue was seconded to the then Australian Heritage Commission to be part of a team investigating the social and cultural values of native forests to local communities in Victoria and Western Australia. On returning to NPWS Sue became a field based Area Manager on the NSW south coast responsible for managing the newly declared marine and national parks at Jervis Bay as well as oversighting many new protected areas in the local area, emerging from the Regional Forest Agreement process.
During her career Sue developed a particular interest in Indigenous people’s traditional and contemporary connections with the forested environment and in 2007 she completed a PhD on this topic in the Fenner School at the Australian National University. She was a member of an International Task Force on Traditional Forest Knowledge and co-edited a book on this subject.
Sue’s work experience has enabled an appreciation of both the differences and the synergies of western style nature conservation and Indigenous notions of caring for country and how it can contribute to the reconciliation process in Australia.
Currently Sue is a consultant archaeologist doing mainly heritage assessments but also large collaborative projects with an anthropologist and Aboriginal communities, such as assessing the Aboriginal values of the NSW marine environment and documenting the names and locations of the ancestors in a large historic Aboriginal cemetery.
Ashish Kothari »
Founder-member of Indian environmental group Kalpavriksh, Ashish has taught at the Indian Institute of Public Administration and as guest faculty in several universities in India and abroad.
He has coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan process, served on boards or steering committees of several civil organisations (including Greenpeace International and India, Indian Society of Ecological Economics, World Commission on Protected Areas, IUCN Commission on Social, Economic and Environmental Policy, and Bombay Natural History Society), co-chaired IUCN WCPA-CEESP Strategic Direction on Governance, Equity and Livelihoods (TILCEPA), and helped found the ICCA Consortium.
Active in both peoples’ movements and on government committees, Ashish has initiated a process to bring together people and stories on alternatives in India, Vikalp Sangam, and networking on well-being alternatives around the world, through a Peoples’ Sustainability Treaty on Radical Ecological Democracy.
He has authored or edited (singly or with others) over 30 books, including Birds in Our Lives, Sharing Power and (with Aseem Shrivastava) Churning the Earth: The Making of Global India.
Graeme L. Worboys »
Graeme Worboys is Co Vice Chair, Connectivity Conservation and Mountains, IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas; an Adjunct Fellow at The Australian National University Fenner School of Environment and Society; and a member of the Australian Capital Territory’s Tidbinbilla Nature Reserve Strategic Management Board.
Graeme has 43 years’ national and international experience in protected area governance and management for executive (policy); practitioner (operations) and developmental theory (research) practice. He is an editor and author for five national and international books on protected area management and connectivity conservation, an author of 12 published book chapters and papers and multiple reports and articles. He was lead editor of Protected Area Principles and Practice (2001, 2005), Oxford University Press, Melbourne; co-editor of Managing Protected Areas: Challenges and Responses for the 21st Century (2004) Andromeda Editrice, Italy; co-editor of Managing Protected Areas: A Global Guide (2006) Earthscan, London; and lead editor of Connectivity Conservation Management: A Global Guide (2010) Earthscan, London.
Graeme has led IUCN World Heritage evaluations in South Africa, Italy, China and Vietnam; he has provided UNESCO with World Heritage management guidance in South Africa; the Vietnamese Government with Karst management advice; and the South Australian Government with a National Heritage Listing expert report. He has served the Australian Government as a protected area advisor to the Auditor General of Australia; Chairperson of the National Wildlife Corridor Committee; and commissioned expert report contributor to World Heritage and geoheritage conservation policy.
Michael Lockwood »
Michael Lockwood is Associate Professor of Environmental Planning and Management, Geography & Spatial Science, School of Land and Food at the University of Tasmania.
Michael has been an author on 4 books and over 100 academic papers, book chapters and reports. His most recent articles in Journal of Environmental Management, Journal of Environmental Planning and Management and Ecology and Society show how social ecological systems and scenario analyses can improve biodiversity governance and planning. Other recent work has examined the forms and sources of place attachment for protected areas (published in Geoforum and Journal of Environmental Planning and Management), and analysed social survey data to underpin program design for connectivity conservation (published in Society and Natural Resources). His books include a co-authored 2010 volume, Connectivity conservation management: a global guide, published by Earthscan, London. He has also written articles on protected area governance, regional natural resource management, and natural area values assessment.
Michael is a member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas, member of the Planning Institute of Australia, a Ministerial appointee to the Tasmanian National Parks and Wildlife Advisory Council, and Committee Chair and Steering Group member for a protected areas research and learning collaboration servicing the Asia-Pacific and Australia.
Ian Pulsford »
Ian Pulsford is a specialist in protected areas and linking landscapes with 36 years experience in conservation policy, planning and practice with the New South Wales Government, including the selection, design and management of protected areas and large landscape connectivity corridors.
Ian has been an author of more than 18 published articles and book chapters. He has been an editor of two books and authored numerous government and consultancy reports, conservation plans, strategies and publicity materials. Ian’s most recent contributions as a chapter author and editor is Linking Australia’s Landscapes published by CSIRO in 2010 which draws out lessons from a variety of established and new connectivity conservation initiatives from around Australia, and is complemented by international examples. In this book he co-authored a chapter on Connectivity Conservation in the Great Eastern Ranges of Australia.
During the 1990s and later Ian was the Zone and Divisional Manager for Conservation Programs in south-east NSW with the National Parks and Wildlife Service and Department of Environment Climate Change and Water (now the Office of Environment and Heritage) and from 2007 to 2010 was the founding manager of the Great Eastern Ranges Initiative, Australia’s first continental-scale conservation corridor. He is now an independent consultant and member of the IUCN World Commission on Protected Areas – Mountains and Connectivity Conservation theme. Ian has served on various government committees, including as a member of an expert panel advising the Australian Government on the draft National Wildlife Corridors Plan, a Ministerial appointee on the Southern Catchment Management Board and has chaired several committees.
Mark Busse »
Mark Busse is Senior Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Auckland. His research concerns social organization, reciprocity and markets, intellectual and cultural property, and inequality with a geographical focus on Papua New Guinea. He has carried out long-term ethnographic research among Boazi-speaking peoples in the Lake Murray-Middle Fly area of Papua New Guinea since 1982. That research has focused on dual organization, sister exchange marriage, gender and inequality, history, and regional integration. Before moving to New Zealand in 1999, Mark worked for nine years at the Papua New Guinea National Museum first as Curator of Anthropology and then as Assistant Director for Science, Research and Consultancy. His current research, which is funded by the Royal Society of New Zealand, concerns the fresh food market in Goroka in the Eastern Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea. It addresses issues of urban food security through an examination of the market as a set of complex social relations and from the perspectives of the diverse participants in the market rather than through the application of Western economic models. He is co-editor of Protection of Intellectual, Biological and Cultural Property in Papua New Guinea with Kathy Whimp (published by ANU Press) and Ownership and Appropriation with Veronica Strang (published by Berg).
John Uhr »
Professor John Uhr, author of Terms of Trust and of Deliberative Democracy in Australia, is inaugural Director of the Centre for the Study of Australian Politics, School of Politics and International Relations at The Australian National University.
David Eng »
David Eng is a Lecturer in Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. Previously he was an Assistant Professor at California State University Bakersfield for three years. When he moved to New Zealand in 2003, he worked for the Tertiary Educational Commission up until 2007. His areas of research include Epistemology, Social Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, and Philosophy of Evaluation.
Ahmad Kusworo »
Ahmad Kusworo received his first degree in agriculture from the University of Lampung and conducted research in the province with Friends of Nature and Environment (WATALA) and World Agroforestry Centre (ICRAF) before beginning his degree program at ANU. Since completing his PhD, Ahmad Kusworo has worked for World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Indonesia and UNDP Indonesia as well as having served as the Indonesian Research Coordinator for the ANU Crawford School’s Australia Indonesia Governance Research Partnership. He is currently a Technical Advisor for Fauna & Flora International’s Indonesia Programme.
Gordon Briscoe »
BA (Hist), MA, PhD Dr Gordon Briscoe, from the Marduntjara/Pitjantjatjara peoples of Central Australia, is a long-standing Indigenous activist, organiser, researcher, writer, teacher and mentor. He played a key role in inspiring ANU History Program to establish its Centre for Indigenous History and became the Centre’s inaugural Research Fellow in 2003. In 2004 he was awarded the Order of Australia for services to Aboriginal health, legal services and education. Dr Briscoe helped form an Aboriginal Progress Association in the late 1950s. He worked for the Foundation for Aboriginal Affairs and the Aboriginal Legal Service (a body he had helped to establish) in the late 1960s. In 1972, he helped establish a health service for the growing urban Aboriginal population in Sydney. He was also a Field Officer for the Commonwealth Office of Aboriginal Affairs and a senior liaison officer in the Department of Health and Acting Director of Professor Fred Hollows National Trachoma and Eye Health Program, where he advised on cultural protocols for approaching Aboriginal communities. Dr Briscoe began his academic career in 1981, studying history and politics at ANU. He gained his PhD on Indigenous health in the RSSS History Program in 1997. His current research projects include the Sydney Harbour Trust project, the ‘Native Census, 1920-44′, an Indigenous population study, and ‘Aborigines Between The Wars: 1920-1944’.
Christina Parolin »
Dr Christina Parolin researches in the field of early nineteenth century British radicalism. In 2009, she was awarded the J. G. Crawford Prize for her study, Radical Spaces, which explores the connection between architecture and space and popular radical culture in early 19th century London. During 2010-11 she held a Visiting Fellowship at the Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University. Christina is currently the Executive Director of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
Her publications include: ‘The ‘She-Champion of Impiety’: a case study of female radicalism’ in M.T Davis and Paul. A Pickering (eds), Unrespectable Radicals? Popular Politics in the Age of Reform, Ashgate, 2008; ‘Let us have truth and liberty’: contesting Britishness and Otherness from the prison cell, London 1820-26’, Humanities Research, vol xiii, no.1 2006, pp.71-84; and Michael Davis, Iain McCalman, Christina Parolin (eds) Newgate in Revolution: An anthology of Radical Prison Literature in the Age of Revolution, Continuum Press, London, 2005. Her latest publication is Radical Spaces: Venues of Popular Politics in London 1790-c.1845, ANU Press, 2010.
Porer Nombo »
Porer Nombo is Local Government representative (Komiti) for the villages of Reite, Sarangama and Marpungae in Ward 16 of Mot 1 District on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea, a position he has been asked to occupy since the early 1980s. Growing up in the village in the 1950s and 60s, he never learned to read or write but was educated about plants and healing, among other things, by his elders, and is recognised as the leading local authority on kastom (effective modes of action from past and present). In 2000, he gave a presentation to the Motupore Island Seminar on Intellectual and Cultural Property in Port Moresby organised by the University of Papua New Guinea, and in 2009 he visited the UK at the request of the British Museum to assist them in their work.
Christopher B. Yardley »
Chris Yardley worked as a salesman in the computer industry for 46 years, during 1961–2005. His career, following every opportunity afforded, resulted in him living and working in five countries during this time. He has travelled extensively in some thirty countries. He has a real interest in the political and cultures of these countries and how it determines the salesman’s approach to doing business. Prior to retirement he undertook making a record of the computer industry in which he was working coming to the conclusion that it had been the front-line salesmen who had created the computer and communications explosion we have seen since the 1980s.
Post retirement he has undertaken a Master of Science Communication at the Australian National University and followed that with a science communication study leading to a PhD.
David McDonald »
David McDonald BA, DipSocWk, MA, GradDipPoplnHlth is a social scientist with research interests including dialogue, knowledge integration and building evidence-based public policy. He has wide experience in research & evaluation, policy analysis and policy & program development, particularly in the alcohol and other drugs, criminal justice and related fields.
David is a Visiting Fellow at ANU National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health and the Director of the Canberra-based consultancy Social Research & Evaluation Pty Ltd. Earlier positions he has held include Senior Criminologist at the Australian Institute of Criminology, and Deputy Head of Research at the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody.
Arif Zamhari »
Arif Zamhari is a lecturer in Islamic State University in Malang and Al-Hikam College in Malang. He is also active in an interfaith dialog project held by International Conference of Islamic Scholars (ICIS) in Jakarta.
Chris Aulich »
Chris Aulich is a Professor of Public Administration at the ANZSOG Institute for Governance at the University of Canberra. He joined the University after a decade in the ACT and Commonwealth public services. Since then he has worked extensively on tracing Australia’s policies of privatisation from Hawke-Keating through to John Howard’s government and has published extensively in academic journals, professional magazines and books on issues relating to both local government and to privatisation.
Chris has jointly edited four books, three of which mapped the main developments in the Howard and Rudd government periods. He has held visiting positions at St Andrews University and the University of Hong Kong and has extensive experience teaching courses in public administration in China, Singapore, Hong Kong, Cambodia, Malaysia and Bhutan.
Mark Evans »
Professor Mark Evans is the Director for the ANZSOG Institute for Governance. This role draws on Mark’s considerable international experience in supporting and training senior civil servants and in evaluating public policy programs. The emphasis of his work at ANZSOG will be fourfold: the provision of the ACT with strategic training and research support; the delivery of an Executive MPA module in designing public policies; the development of short courses in conflict transformation; and, in the medium-term the development of an international MPA program.
Before taking this role, Mark was Head of the Department of Politics and Director of York MPA and professional training programs at the University of York in the United Kingdom. Between 1998 and 2009 Mark played the central strategic role in the development of the department’s graduate school and the creation of three successful interdisciplinary research centres – York MPA and professional training programmes, Politics, Economics and Philosophy and Post-war Reconstruction and Development.
Mark has also played an international role in supporting good administrative practices in public administration in developed and developing contexts as well as the reconstruction of public administration in war-torn societies. He has delivered training and managed evaluation projects on the behest of the World Bank, United Nations agencies, the European Union, the Consortium of Humanitarian Affairs in Colombo, Sri Lanka, the British Council and the West Asia and North Africa Forum, as well as government departments such as: the UK’s Cabinet Office and departments for International Development, Work and Pensions, Foreign and Commonwealth Office; China’s National School of Administration and Social and Economic Reform Commission and others.
His recent books include: Constitution-making and the Labour Party (2005); Post-war Reconstruction and Policy Transfer (2009); New Directions in the Study of Policy Transfer (2009) and Understanding Competition States (2009) and has been the editor of the international journal Policy Studies since 2005.
Christine Winter »
Christine Winter is Research Fellow, Race and Ethnicity in the Global South (REGS) at Sydney University, Visiting Fellow at the College of the Asia Pacific, Australian National University, and Associate Senior Fellow, HPRC, University of Queensland.
Her transnational historical research connects the Pacific with Europe and Australasia. She has published widely on National Socialism in Oceania, transnational politics of humanitarianism during WWII, and Germans in the Pacific. Most recently she has published a monograph on the politics of the Neuendettelsauer Mission at the End of the Weimar Republic and the beginning of the Third Reich (Looking after One’s Own, Peter Lang Verlag 2012), and co-edited a volume on Australasian social scientists and the impact WWII had on their scholarship and disciplines (Scholars at War, ANU E-Press, 2012). She is presently working on a project on the legacies of the German colonial empire in the Global South: German Mixed-Race Diasporas in Southern Hemisphere Mandated Territories: Scientific theories, politics and identity transformation.
Christine studied Theology and Comparative Religion in Germany, and received her PhD in history from ANU in 2005. In 2010 she was awarded a postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Queensland. Most recently, in 2012 she was International Visiting Fellow, Research Group Historicizing Knowledge about Human Biological Diversity in the 20th Century, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science (MPIWG), Berlin.
Seumas Miller »
Seumas Miller is a Professorial Research Fellow at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (an Australian Research Council Special Research Centre) at Charles Sturt University (Canberra) and the 3TU Centre for Ethics and Technology at Delft University of Technology (The Hague). He is the foundation director of CAPPE (2000-2007), Head of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences at CSU 1994-9 and Professor of Philosophy at The Australian National University (2003-11). He is the author or co-author of over 150 academic articles and 15 books, including Investigative Ethics: Ethics for Police Detectives and Criminal Investigators (Blackwell, 2014), Security and Privacy (lead author John Kleinig) (ANU Press, 2012), Moral Foundations of Social Institutions (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Terrorism and Counter-terrorism: Ethics and Liberal Democracy (Blackwell, 2009), Corruption and Anti-corruption (Prentice Hall, 2005), Ethical Issues in Policing (Ashgate, 2005), and Social Action: A Teleological Account (Cambridge University Press, 2001).
Lynette Russell »
Lynette Russell is an ARC Professorial Fellow at the Monash Indigenous Centre, Monash University, Melbourne. She has published extensively on history and colonialism, cross-cultural encounters and frontier relations.
Leigh Boucher »
Leigh Boucher is a Lecturer in History at Macquarie University, Sydney. He has published research on liberalism, race and settler colonialism in nineteenth-century Victoria.
Richard Blewett »
Richard Blewett, an Aussie by birth, left for Africa and UK in the 1970s. He graduated 1st class Hons in Geology from Swansea University (Wales) in 1985. Following a year in industry in South Africa, he completed a PhD in structural geology from Leicester University in the UK (1989). During this time he worked in the French Alps, Canadian Appalachians, British Caledonides and Nepalese Himalaya.
Richard joined Geoscience Australia in 1990, and has worked in North Queensland, the Pilbara, Sultanate of Oman, the Yilgarn, Gawler–Curnamona, Arunta and Mugraves. Richard was the Chief Editor of Shaping a nation: A geology of Australia, which was a joint GA–ANU Press publication for the Brisbane 2012 International Geological Congress. He is interested in the management of science and research and has an MBA from Deakin University (2001).
He is presently the Group Leader of Regional Geology and Mineral Systems in the Minerals and Natural Hazards Division at Geoscience Australia.
Thomas Reuter »
Prof Thomas Reuter is a Future Fellow of the Australian Research Council, located at the Asia Institute of The University of Melbourne. After obtaining his PhD from ANU in 1997, he taught at Heidelberg University, held post-doctoral and QElI Fellowships at Melbourne, and a Research Fellowship at Monash University. He was President of the Australian Anthropological Association (2002-2005) and is the chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations, and an executive member of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences. Research has focused on Indonesian ethnology (Bali, Java, Kalimantan), New Social Movements, Religion, Political Anthropology, Social Organization, Status, Globalisation and General Theory. Thomas has authored more than fifty articles and the following seven books: Custodians of the Sacred Mountains: Culture and Society in the Highlands of Bali. Honolulu: Hawaii UP, 2002. The House of Our Ancestors: Precedence and Dualism in Highland Balinese Society. Leiden (Netherlands): KITLV Press, 2002. Inequality, Crisis and Social Change in Indonesia: The Muted Worlds of Bali. London: Routledge, 2003. Budaya dan Masyarakat di Pegunungan Bali. Jakarta: Yayasan Obor, 2005. Sharing the Earth, Dividing the Land: Land and Territory in the Austronesian world. Canberra: ANU Press, 2006. Global Trends in Religion, and the Reaffirmation of Hindu Identity in Bali. Clayton: Monash Asia Institute Press, 2008. The Return to Constitutional Democracy in Indonesia, Caulfield: MAI Press, 2010.
Don Niles »
Don Niles is Acting Director and Senior Ethnomusicologist of the Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies. He is interested in research and publication on all types of music and dance in Papua New Guinea, including traditional, popular, and Christian forms. The author/editor of numerous books, articles, and audiovisual publications on various aspects of music, dance, and archiving, Don also edits the Institute’s music monograph series (Apwitihire: Studies in Papua New Guinea Musics) and journal (Kulele: Occasional Papers in Pacific Music and Dance). He is a vice president of the International Council for Traditional Music and former editor of their journal, the Yearbook for Traditional Music.