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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.
The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) »
The Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) was established as a not-for-profit company in 2002 with the vision of creating a world-leading educational institution that teaches strategic management and high-level policy to public sector leaders. Formed by a consortium of governments
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia »
The state, society and governance in Melanesia program at ANU (SSGM) is devoted to the study of the Melanesian peoples and their countries – Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu, New Caledonia and Fiji – and constitutes the largest concentration of research expertise on Melanesia in the world
Asia-Pacific Environment Monographs »
The books in this series deal with relationships between human populations and natural landscapes in the countries of the Asia-Pacific region from the perspectives of anthropology, geography, and related social sciences. These relationships include the exploitation, management and conservation of
Islam in Southeast Asia »
For the past two decades, The Australian National University has had a program for the study of Islam in Southeast Asia. Over the years, this program has produced an impressive array of graduates, many of them from the region, whose theses document the variety and vitality of Islam in Southeast
Russell Smith »
Russell Smith is Lecturer in Literary Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra. He has published widely on Samuel Beckett, with essays in the Journal of Beckett Studies and Samuel Beckett Today/Aujourd’hui, as well as Samuel Beckett’s Endgame (2007), The International Reception of Samuel Beckett (2009), Beckett and Nothing (2010) and Beckett in Context (2012). He edited the collection Beckett and Ethics (Continuum 2009). He also writes on Australian literature and visual art, and is co-editor of Australian Humanities Review (www.australianhumanitiesreview.org). He is currently completing a book on the treatment of emotion in Beckett’s post-war writing, provisionally titled ‘All I am is feeling’: Beckett’s Sensibility.
Jan Pakulski »
Jan Pakulski, MA (Warsaw), PhD (ANU), is Professor of Sociology at the University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, and Fellow at the Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality. Migrated to Australia in 1975; 1998-2001 Head of School of Sociology and SW, UTAS; 2001-8 Dean of Arts, UTAS. He is the author, co-author or editor 8 books and over 100 scholarly articles on elites, democratization, multiculturalism, post-communism, social movements, and social inequality. His books include Elite Recruitment in Australia (Canberra: ANU Press, 1982), Social Movements: The Politics of Moral Protest, (Melbourne: Longman Cheshire 1991); Postmodernization with S. Crook and M. Waters (London: Sage 1992, Chinese translation 1994); The Death of Class, with M. Waters (London: Sage 1996); Postcommunist Elites and Democracy in Eastern Europe with J.Higley and W.Wesolowski (London: Macmillan 1998); Ebbing of the Green Tide? Environmentalism, Public Opinion and the Media in Australia (Hobart: University of Tasmania, 1998); Globalizing Inequalities (Sydney: Allen and Unwin, 200); Toward Leader Democracy (New York and London: Anthem Press, 2012). Co-winner of Henry Mayer Prize for the best political science article published in Australia (1999) and winner of the Stephen Crook Memorial Prize for the Best Authored Book in Australian Sociology 2004-5 (Globalising Inequalities).
Kylie Message »
Kylie Message is Associate Professor and Head of the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at the Australian National University. She is author of Museums and Social Activism: Engaged Protest (Routledge, 2006), New Museums and the Making of Culture (Berg, 2006) and co-editor of volumes that include Compelling Cultures: Representing Cultural Diversity and Cohesion in Multicultural Australia (2009) and Museum Theory: An Expanded Field (forthcoming 2014, Blackwell Wiley). She is chief co-editor for the journal Museum Worlds (Advances in Research), managing editor for Museum and Society, and exhibition reviews editor for Australian Historical Studies.
Kate Mitchell »
Dr Kate Mitchell is lecturer in English at the Australian National University. Her research is focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century literary and cultural history with a particular interest in neo-Victorian fiction and historical recollection in fictional narratives. Her monograph, History and Cultural Memory in Neo-Victorian Fiction: Victorian Afterimages was published by Palgrave in 2010, and her articles on historical fiction have appeared in Neo-Victorian Studies and a number of edited collections and journals. With Dr Nicola Parsons (University of Sydney), she co-edited a collection of essays entitled Reading the Represented Past: Literature & Historical Consciousness, 1700 to the Present (Palgrave 2013). She serves on the editorial board of Humanities Research Journal.
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Borek Puza »
Dr Borek Puza is a Senior Lecturer in Statistics in the Research School of Finance, Actuarial Studies and Applied Statistics in the College of Business and Economics at The Australian National University, Canberra. Dr Puza completed a BSc in Mathematics in 1985 and worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics from 1986 to 1995 in the time series and methodology areas. In 1992 he completed a Graduate Diploma in Statistics, followed by a Masters in Statistics in 1994 and a PhD in Statistics in 2001, all at ANU. Dr Puza has written around 20 peer-reviewed journal articles on various statistical topics. His current research interests include biased sampling, confidence estimation, Bayesian statistics, Markov chain Monte Carlo methods, and risk analysis.
Anthony J Regan »
Anthony Regan is a Fellow in the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project in the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at The Australian National University, Canberra. His main field of research is the law and politics of constitutions, conflict and reconciliation, and he has worked in Papua New Guinea, Uganda, East Timor and Solomon Islands. He was an advisor to the Bougainville Parties in the Bougainville peace process, 1997 to 2005.
A. Haroon Akram-Lodhi »
A Haroon Akram-Lodhi teaches rural development economics at the Institute of Social Studes, The Hague, The Netherlands and has written on and lived in Fiji.
Gavan Breen »
Gavan Breen began his working life as a metallurgist, but switched to linguistics in his early thirties to become involved in the salvage of dying Australian languages. He has spent many years recording and analysing almost-extinct (now extinct) languages in western Queensland and adjacent parts of inland Australia. He has worked with the School of Australian Linguistics, training native speakers of Australian languages in vernacular literacy, basic linguistics and other skills relevant to teaching and literature production in bilingual education, translation and interpreting, lexicography and other language-related work. He has also done substantial work on Arrernte and other living languages of Central Australia, especially in phonology, the interrelationship of kinship and grammar, and compilation of dictionaries.
Philip Taylor »
Philip Taylor is Senior Fellow in the Department of Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University (ANU), and Editor of the Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology. He has been conducting research in the Mekong Delta since the early 1990s. He has authored and edited numerous books and scholarly articles on history, religion, ethnicity, economy, and environment in Vietnam. His latest book, The Khmer Lands of Vietnam, was co-published in 2014 by NUS Press, NIAS Press, and University of Hawaii Press. At ANU, he supervises PhD students working on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. Along with ANU Vietnam studies colleagues, he has been involved with organising the Vietnam Update series since 2003.
Stephanie Lawson »
Stephanie Lawson is Professor of Politics and International Relations at Macquarie University, Sydney; Senior Research Associate, Faculty of Humanities, University of Johannesburg; and Visiting Professor at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program at The Australian National University. Among her many publications is the award-winning The failure of democratic politics in Fiji.
Tamatoa Bambridge »
Tamatoa Bambridge is a research director at the French CNRS. Trained as an anthopologist, he works on land and sea tenure in Eastern Polynesia. His major focus of interest is on the interaction between state law and local norms about resource management, traditional knowledge, and marine and land tenure.
Åsa Ferrier »
Åsa Ferrier is an Australian archaeologist with a special interest in Aboriginal–European contact history and Aboriginal archaeology of north Queensland’s tropical rainforest and savannah regions. Her research typically integrates a diverse range of data sources: archaeological evidence recovered from Aboriginal occupation sites, historical documents, survey and vegetation maps of early ethnographers, settlers and explorers, complemented with Indigenous bio-cultural knowledge. Åsa is an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Archaeology and History, La Trobe University, Melbourne, and currently a collaborator on several research projects in Australia and Papua New Guinea.
Dr Kirstie Close-Barry »
Dr Kirstie Close-Barry has worked as a historian in Melbourne universities since 2006. Her research has taken her from the United States of America, to Far North Queensland and out into the Pacific. Along the way she earned a Bachelor and Master of Arts, and examined colonialism in her home country, Australia. Realising that her family’s history was tangled with colonialism in the Pacific, she then decided, in her doctorate, to confront the policies they adopted while working for the Methodist Overseas Missions of Australasia. She continues to draw attention to Australia’s colonial past in the Pacific through her teaching and research in Australia, and the Pacific Adventist University in Papua New Guinea. Dr Close‑Barry has accepted an invitation to join State, Society & Governance in Melanesia at The Australian National University as a visiting researcher.
Brett Bennett »
Brett Bennett is Senior Lecturer in History in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts at Western Sydney University. He is also a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Johannesburg and an Associate in the Centre for Environmental History at The Australian National University.
Fred Kruger »
Fred Kruger is a Research Associate in the Centre for Environmental Management at the University of the Free State. During his career, Kruger has served in a variety of research and executive positions, including the Officer in Charge at the Jonkershoek Forestry Research Station, Director of the South African Forestry Research Institute, Director of Forestek (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research), and as a consultant and educator.
Geremie R Barmé »
Geremie R Barmé is an historian, editor and translator who has published widely on late-imperial and modern China. He is the Founding Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
Jeremy Goldkorn »
Jeremy Goldkorn is a writer and new media entrepreneur and founder of Danwei.com, the digital research collaborator of China in the World. He relocated to Nashville, Tennessee in 2015 after twenty years of living and working in Beijing.
Geoffrey Lancaster »
Geoffrey Lancaster has been at the forefront of the historically inspired performance movement for 40 years. He was the first Australian to win a major international keyboard competition, receiving first prize in the 23rd Festival van Vlaanderen International Mozart Fortepiano Competition, Brugge.
He has appeared to acclaim as keyboardist and conductor with such orchestras as the Leipzig Gewandhaus, Royal Stockholm Philharmonic, Rotterdam Philharmonic, Cologne Gürzenich, Ensemble 415, Concerto Copenhagen, Tafelmusik, and every major Australian orchestra. Former Director of the Tasmanian Symphony Chamber Players and Chief Conductor of La Cetra Barockorchester Basel, he has lectured at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and other significant Early Music schools.
In 2006 Dr Lancaster was Australian of the Year for the Australian Capital Territory. His other honours include ARIA and Gramophone awards for some of his more than fifty recordings, the Australian Artists Creative Fellowship, HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship, Honorary Fellowship of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, the Order of Arts and Letters and the Order of Australia.