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.
Bruce Hamon »
Bruce Hamon was born in Sydney in 1917, but spent his childhood and primary school years at Bawley Point. His secondary schooling was at St Patrick’s College, Goulburn. Bruce then studied science and engineering at Sydney University. He joined the CSIRO in 1941, and remained with them until retiring in 1979. Initially he worked on electrical standards, but in 1957 he transferred to the Division of Fisheries (later the Division of Oceanography) at Cronulla, where his interests were ocean currents, tides and mean sea levels. Bruce’s other interests were fishing, canoeing, bushwalking, birdwatching and woodwork. He passed away in 2014.
Fadwa Al-Yaman »
Fadwa Al-Yaman is Group Head, Social and Indigenous Group at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
Michelle Gourley »
Michelle Gourley is Unit Head, Indigenous Data Analysis and Reporting Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.
R.J. Lawrence »
John Lawrence was born in 1931 and was educated in Adelaide. Later, as a Rhodes Scholar in Magdalen College, Oxford, he completed a BA in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. After a period of employment in the social work section of the Commonwealth Department of Social Services, he studied at The Australian National University and received his PhD. In 1961, he was appointed to the University of Sydney in the first Australian academic post in social administration. In 1964, he became a member of the Federal Council of the Australian Association of Social Workers.
Noah Riseman »
Noah Riseman is an Associate Professor in History at the Australian Catholic University in Melbourne. He is the author of Defending Whose Country? Indigenous Soldiers in the Pacific War and co-author of the book Defending Country: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Military Service since 1945.
Sandra Tarte »
Sandra Tarte is Head of the School of Government, Development and International Affairs at the University of the South Pacific. She specialises in the international politics of the Pacific Islands region and her publications include Japan’s Aid Diplomacy and the Pacific Islands (1998).
Australian Centre on China in the World »
The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) is a research institution established to enhance the existing capabilities of The Australian National University (ANU). It aims to be an integrated, world-leading institution for Chinese Studies and the understanding of China, or what has been
Nicolas Peterson »
Nicolas Peterson is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology at The Australian National University. His main areas of research have been with Yolngu people in northeast Arnhem Land and Warlpiri people in the Tanami desert. His research interests include economic anthropology, social change, land and marine tenure, fourth world people and the state, the anthropology of photography and the history of the discipline in Australia. Some publications in this latter area include, Studying Man and Man’s Nature: The History of Institutionalisation of Aboriginal Anthropology (Australian Aboriginal Institute of Studies, 1990); Donald Thomson: The Man and Scholar (Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 2005) edited with Bruce Rigsby; and The Makers and Making of Indigenous Australian Museum Collections (Melbourne University Press, 2008) edited with Lindy Allen and Louise Hamby.
Fred Myers »
Fred Myers is the Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University. Myers has written frequently on questions of place and personhood, on Western Desert painting, and more generally on culture, objects and identity as they are understood within Indigenous communities and circulated through different regimes of value. His books include Pintupi Country, Pintupi Self: Sentiment, Place and Politics among Western Desert Aborigines (1986), Painting Culture: The Making of an Aboriginal High Art (2002) and edited volumes The Traffic in Culture: Refiguring Anthropology and Art (co-edited with George Marcus, 1995) and The Empire of Things (2001). His current project involves the repatriation and ‘re-documentation’ of film footage from 1974 with the two current Pintupi communities.
Matt Tomlinson »
Matt Tomlinson is an Australian Research Council Future Fellow in Anthropology in the College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University. He has conducted research in Fiji, New Zealand and Sāmoa on the topics of language, politics, ritual and Christianity. He is author of In God’s Image: The Metaculture of Fijian Christianity (2009) and Ritual Textuality: Pattern and Motion in Performance (2014), and he has co-edited volumes including The Limits of Meaning: Case Studies in the Anthropology of Christianity(with Matthew Engelke, 2006) and Christian Politics in Oceania (with Debra McDougall, 2013).
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan »
Ty P. Kāwika Tengan is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Ethnic Studies at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. His research interests include Indigenous theory and methodology, cultural politics in Hawai‘i and the Pacific, colonialism, nationalism, and gender and masculinities. He is author of Native Men Remade: Gender and Nation in Contemporary Hawai‘i (2008). He is also co-editor, with Tēvita O. Ka‘ili and Rochelle Tuitagava‘a Fonotī, of the first collaborative publication of Indigenous anthropologists in Oceania (in Pacific Studies), and with Paul Lyons of a collection on Native Pacific currents in American Studies (in American Quarterly).
Allison Cadzow »
Allison Cadzow is a Research Associate on ‘Serving Our Country: A History of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the Defence of Australia’, an ARC-funded Linkage project based at The Australian National University. Allison is co-author of Rivers and Resilience: Aboriginal people on Sydney’s Georges River (UNSW Press, 2009) with Professor Heather Goodall (shortlisted for the 2010 NSW Premier’s History Awards). She co-edited Nelson Aboriginal Studies (Nelson Cengage, 2012) with Professor John Maynard. Her PhD, completed at the University of Technology, Sydney (2002), examined non-Aboriginal Australian women’s involvement in expeditions of the 1840s to 1940s.
Joanne Leung »
Joanne Leung is a principal economist at the New Zealand Ministry of Transport and has been the Deputy Chair of the New Zealand Government Economics Network since November 2014. Joanne has over 15 years’ public service experience, including practical Cost-Benefit Analysis in the New Zealand Land Transport Safety Authority and New Zealand Ministry of Transport.
George Argyrous »
Dr George Argyrous is a Senior Lecturer at ANZSOG on secondment from the School of Social Sciences at the University of New South Wales, where he has taught political economy, research methods and statistics since 1992, publishing many articles on the use and abuse of research. He is also the author of the popular international text Statistics for Research, which is now in its third edition and has been translated into Chinese, and the editor of Evidence for policy and decision-making: a practical guide, published by UNSW Press.
Dean Ansell »
Dean Ansell is a postgraduate researcher at the Fenner School of Environment and Society at The Australian National University. His PhD focuses on the cost-effectiveness of biodiversity conservation in agricultural landscapes. His research also involves on-ground evaluation of the cost-effectiveness of ecological restoration projects in farmland in southeast Australia. He has more than 15 years experience working with government and non-government organisations on biodiversity conservation and natural resource management in Australia and internationally.
Fiona Gibson »
Fiona Gibson is Research Fellow at the Centre for Environmental Economics and Policy at the University of Western Australia. She received her doctorate from the University of Western Australia in 2011. Fiona is currently working in the space of bushfire management, biodiversity, and water resources. Her research aim is to provide better advice to decision makers on effective policy design and the factors driving community adoption of such policies.
David Salt »
David Salt is the editor of Decision Point, the monthly research magazine of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Environmental Decisions. Decision Point presents news and views on environmental decision-making, biodiversity, and conservation planning and monitoring. Prior to working on Decision Point, David created and produced The Helix magazine for CSIRO Education, Newton magazine for Australian Geographic, Materials Monthly for ANU Centre for Science and Engineering of Materials, and ScienceWise for ANU College of Science.
Hank Nelson »
Hank Nelson graduated from the University of Melbourne. He taught in government schools and at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology before being appointed to the Administrative College in Port Moresby in 1966. In 1968 he joined the History Department of the University of Papua New Guinea, where he taught until he moved to The Australian National University in 1973. After initially joining the Research School of Social Sciences, he was appointed in 1975 to the Department of Pacific and Southeast Asian History, where he held various positions before becoming a Professor in 1993. After he retired in 2002 he continued his association with ANU as Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History, Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies, and as Chair of the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Program. His books include Papua New Guinea: Black Unity or Black Chaos and Taim Bilong Masta: The Australian Involvement in Papua New Guinea. Hank wrote on a wide variety of topics and he and his work are remembered by students and colleagues in The Boy from Boort, published by ANU Press (2014).
Frank Frost »
Frank Frost has a BA Hons and PhD from the University of Sydney and has a long-standing interest in Australian foreign policy and Australia-Asia relations. His doctoral thesis was a study of the politics of the Australian military involvement in the Vietnam war from 1962 to 1972. Until February 2012 he worked as a research director and senior foreign affairs analyst in the Foreign Affairs, Defence and Security Section of the Australian Parliamentary Library in Canberra, where he provided research and policy advice to Members and Senators and to committees of the Australian Parliament. He has also taught politics and international relations at the University of Sydney and been a visiting fellow at the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies in Singapore, and at the Centre for the Study of Australia-Asia Relations at Griffith University in Brisbane.
Frank Frost’s publications include Australia's War in Vietnam (Sydney: Allen & Unwin, 1987) and numerous articles and papers on ASEAN and Australia-ASEAN relations, including 'ASEAN and Regional Cooperation: Recent Developments and Australia’s Interests' (Canberra: Department of Parliamentary Services, 2013). He wrote Engaging the neighbours: Australia and ASEAN since 1974 as a Visiting Fellow from 2012 to 2015 in the Department of International Relations, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, College of Asia and the Pacific, The Australian National University.
Peter J. Hempenstall »
Peter Hempenstall is Professor Emeritus of the University of Canterbury, New Zealand, and Conjoint Professor with the University of Newcastle in Australia. Pacific Islanders under German Rule was his first book, researched in the archives of West and East Germany in the 1970s and in the Pacific Islands. He has written books on Pacific, Australian and New Zealand history, and is the author of three biographies, including The Lost Man: Wilhelm Solf in German History (with Paula Tanaka Mochida). His latest book (Truth’s Fool) is about the anthropologist Derek Freeman and his war with American anthropologists over Freeman’s criticism of Margaret Mead’s research on Samoan society. He lives in Newcastle, Australia.
Timothy J. Macnaught »
Timothy Macnaught was amongst the first graduates of Macquarie University and completed his doctorate, on which this monograph is based, at ANU in 1975. After teaching history at the University of Hawaii for five years, he returned to Australia to serve in senior positions in church secondary schools in Victoria. In 1997 he joined the Office of National Assessments (ONA) in Canberra as senior analyst for the Oceania Branch to prepare classified reports for the Prime Minister and senior ministers. He retired from ONA in 2015.
Daniel Marston »
Daniel Marston BA MA (McGill) DPhil (Oxon) FRHistS is Professor in Military Studies in the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University. He previously held the Ike Skelton Distinguished Chair in the Art of War at the US Army Command and General Staff College. He has been a Visiting Fellow on multiple occasions with the Leverhulme Programme on the Changing Character of War at the University of Oxford. He has won and been runner-up for the Field Marshal Templer Medal in the UK in 2004 and 2014. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, UK.
Tamara Leahy »
Tamara Leahy is the Chief of Staff for the Military and Defence Studies Program (SDSC ANU) at the Australian Command and Staff College. In 2011, she was awarded a Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Law (Honours) from The Australian National University, where she is currently attempting the Master of Strategic Studies through the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
J. Rob Bray »
J. Rob Bray was a Research Fellow at the Research School of Economics and is now a Research Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research at The Australian National University.
Brendan Brady »
Brendan Brady is Project Manager/ Senior Data Analyst, Functioning and Disability Unit at the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.