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.
ANU Press Textbooks grant scheme »
The ANU Press Textbooks grant scheme seeks to support ANU academics in publishing digital textbooks through the ANU Press Textbook imprint. The ANU Textbooks grant scheme closely aligns with the ANU Vice-Chancellor’s Teaching Enhancement Grants to support innovative and creative initiatives and
Thom van Dooren »
Thom van Dooren is a Senior Lecture in Environmental Humanities at the University of New South Wales. Australia. He is the author of Flight Ways: Life and Loss at the Edge of Extinction (Columbia University Press, 2014) and co-editor of the international, open access journal, Environmental Humanities.
Pip Deveson »
Pip Deveson is a Research and Media Project Officer with the Digital Humanities Hub at The Australian National University Research School of Humanities. Over recent years, she has worked on a number of multi-media and film projects, most notably, the multi-media biography (on CD-ROM) of the renowned Yolngu artist, Narritjin Maymuru. She is currently working on two Australian Research Council funded projects: Contexts of Collection – a dialogic approach to understanding the making of the material record of Yolngu cultures; and Pintupi Dialogues – reconstructing memories of art, land and community through the visual record. Her involvement with both of these projects builds upon her work, over many years, with filmmaker Ian Dunlop.
Deveson began working with Dunlop after completing an anthropology degree at ANU. From 1981 to 1984 her role was that of research assistant on the Yirrkala Film Project, focussing on the effects of the NABALCO bauxite mine on the Yolngu Aboriginal community of northeast Arnhem Land. Following the birth of her three children, she returned to work with Dunlop in 1994, as editor/writer for the Yirrkala Video Project – an extension of the film project, funded by Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies and Film Australia. In 1996, Deveson and Dunlop shared the Royal Anthropological Institute Film Prize for the film Conversations with Dundiwuy Wanambi. In 2007, she was awarded the National Archives Frederick Watson Fellowship to undertake further research on the Yirrkala Film collection. During that time she also worked on several educational websites featuring Yolngu cultural material: Ceremony – the Djungguwan of northeast Arnhem Land; and Living Knowledge – Indigenous knowledge in science education.
John Docker »
BA (Hons), University of Sydney, 1967; MA (Hons), University of Melbourne, 1970; PhD, Australian National University, 1981.
Honorary Professor in the School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, John researches and writes in the fields of genocide and massacre studies, cultural theory, the Enlightenment, monotheism and polytheism, intellectual history, historiography, diaspora, ethnic and cultural identity, and the history of Zionism and Israel-Palestine.
John is currently working on several projects. One is a book entitled Sheer Folly and Derangement: Disorienting Europe and the West. Another is a research project entitled “The Rebecca File: The Strange Afterlife of Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe’s Rebecca in the Nineteenth Century”. Another is an intellectual autobiography, tentatively entitled Growing Up Communist and Jewish in Bondi: A Memoir.
Bronwen Douglas »
Having taught History at La Trobe University for 25 years, Bronwen took up a fellowship in Pacific and Asian History at The Australian National University in 1997. Her major research interest is the history of the global concept of race and its particular manifestations in Oceania (conceived broadly to include Australia and Island Southeast Asia as well as the Pacific Islands). This is the theme of the book she co-edited with Chris Ballard for ANU Press – Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750-1940 (2008). She is at present completing a monograph called Indigenous Presence and the Science of Race: Savants, Voyagers, and Encounters in Oceania 1511-1840. This book examines the interplay of metropolitan ideas, regional experience and Indigenous agency in European descriptions, representations and classifications of people encountered in Oceania. She recently began a new project on ‘Naming Oceania: geography, raciology and local knowledge in the “fifth part of the world”, 1511-1920′. By tracing knowledge about places and their inhabitants to actual encounters, the project investigates the co-dependence of local and metropolitan modes of knowing and naming while also throwing new light on the complicity of racial geography and anthropology in 19th- and early 20th-century imperial competition and colonisation. She also has longstanding interests in the history of tattoo; the history of Melanesian Christianities; the intersections of Christianity, gender, and community in postcolonial Melanesia; and the colonial histories of New Caledonia and Vanuatu. Her major theoretical and methodical concern is the identification of traces of local agency in colonial and élite representations of actual encounters, including visual images and maps.
Michael Fabinyi »
Michael Fabinyi is a research fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies at James Cook University. He is originally from Melbourne, where he completed his undergraduate degree in Anthropology in 2003. He obtained his PhD in Anthropology and Environment at The Australian National University in 2009. His research broadly focuses on the social and political aspects of marine resource management in the Asia-Pacific region, integrating environmental anthropology and political ecology. Much of his recent work has concerned the social dynamics of high-value commodity fisheries such as the trade in live reef fish, focusing on governance in source countries such as the Philippines and Malaysia, and consumption trends in China.
Greg Fealy »
Greg’s interest in Indonesian politics and Islam was awakened as an undergraduate at Monash University and they have remained the focus of his academic and professional activity since then. His PhD thesis was a study of the traditionalist Muslim party, Nahdlatul Ulama. More recently, he has examined terrorism, transnational Islamist movements and religious commodification in Indonesia, as well as broader trends in contemporary Islamic politics in Southeast Asia.
Denise Fisher »
Denise Fisher currently writes on France in the South Pacific, with a particular focus on contemporary New Caledonia. She is a Visiting Fellow with the Australian National University Centre for European Studies. A former senior Australian diplomat, Denise served as political and economic analyst in a number of post-colonial countries (Burma, Kenya, India, Malaysia) before an appointment as Counsellor (Political) in the Australian Embassy, Washington. She has served as Australia’s High Commissioner in Zimbabwe, concurrently accredited to Angola, Malawi, Zambia and Mozambique; and as Australia’s Consul-General in New Caledonia covering the French Pacific territories. Since leaving the Department of Foreign Affairs in 2006, she has written France in the South Pacific: power and politics. Denise has a Masters in International Public Diplomacy from Johns Hopkins University, and a Masters of Philosophy at the Australian National University. In 2011 she was made Chevalier in the French National Order of Merit.
Christine Fernon »
Christine Fernon is the Online Manager for the National Centre of Biography. She worked at the Australian Bureau of Statistics before becoming a research editor at the Australian Dictionary if Biography in 1998. She was later the Dictionary’s bibliographer and assisted in creating the online version of the ADB. She now manages this site along with the NCB’s other biographical websites. She has also written on the history of Canberra, including A Different View: The National Library and Its Building Art (2004) and is the editor of the NCB’s newsletter, Biography Footnotes.
Jon Fraenkel »
Jon Fraenkel is a Senior Research Fellow in the State, Society & Governance in Melanesia Program, in the College of Asia and the Pacific at The Australian National University. He formerly worked at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji from 1995-2007. He is author of The Manipulation of Custom; from uprising to intervention in the Solomon Islands (Victoria University Press & Pandanus Books, 2004) and recently co-edited The 2006 Military Takeover in Fiji; A coup to end all coups?, ANU Press, 2009. His current research work focuses contemporary Pacific politics, economic history of Oceania, electoral systems in Fiji, Tonga, Papua New Guinea and Nauru and women’s representation in the Pacific Islands. He is The Economist’s Pacific Island correspondent and regularly covers contemporary Pacific issues for other international media outlets.
Ross Garnaut »
Ross Garnaut is a Distinguished Professor at the Crawford School of Economics & Government, Australian National University College of Asia & the Pacific. Ross Garnaut’s research interests include China’s economic reforms and internationalisation; Asia-Pacific economies’ development and international economic relations; Australia’s economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region; domestic economic adjustment to Asia-Pacific economic development.
Robert A. M. Gregson »
Robert Gregson has published over 140 papers mostly in experimental applied and mathematical psychology, including statistics, cybernetics and psychophysics. He has published six books, has written a chapter for a handbook on psychophysiology, and sits on several editorial boards for international journals. His research interests include mathematical psychology, nonlinear dynamics, and psychophysics.
Dennis Hart »
Dennis Hart is a senior lecturer in the School of Business and Information Management at The Australian National University. Since leaving the Royal Australian Navy and becoming an academic in 1992, he has published his research work in national and international journals and conferences as well as co-edited the first volume of Proceedings in this series of Information System Foundations workshops.
Keith Houghton »
Keith Houghton is Professor of Business Administration at The Australian National University within the Crawford School, the University’s public policy school housed in the nation’s capital. For eight years Professor Houghton served as Dean of the University’s College of Business and Economics and its antecedent bodies. He has been one of two independent reviewers of the Australian audit practice of the accounting firm KPMG prior to the formal oversight by Australia’s corporate regulator ASIC.
He is also a former member of the Australian Centre of Audit and Assurance Research (ANCAAR) and a former member of the Auditing and Assurance Standards Board (AUASB) in Australia.
Ron Huisken »
Ron Huisken joined the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre at The Australian National University in 2001, after nearly twenty years working in the Australian government departments of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Defence, and Prime Minister and Cabinet. His research interests include US security policies, multilateral security processes in East Asia, alliance management and non-proliferation. Dr Huisken has authored numerous works, including a number of working and Canberra papers published by the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre.
Anna Haebich »
Professor Anna Haebich is a Senior Research Fellow at Curtin University in Perth Western Australia. She is known for her creative interdisciplinary and cross-cultural approaches to research. Her distinguished publication record includes award winning books, exhibitions and videos and academic works and online contributions. Her career brings together university teaching and research, centre directorship, museum curatorship, visual arts practice, work with Indigenous communities, and creative writing.
Anna’s meticulous research is dedicated to achieving social justice and humanitarian goals through social action, creativity and knowledge creation. Her research interests include histories of Indigenous peoples, immigration, the body, the environment, visual arts, museums, representations of the past, biography and crime and gender. Her latest research project is to document the history of Aboriginal performance and performers in Western Australia.
Recent positions include Research Intensive Professor at Griffith University in Brisbane, Queensland, inaugural Historian in Residence at the State Library of Queensland and inaugural Director of the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas. Anna is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and of the Australian Academy of the Social Sciences. She is a Vice President of the Council of the Australian Academy of the Humanities and member of the Research Committee of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies.
Luke Hambly »
Luke Hambly is the Program Manager for the Centre for Democratic Institutions (CDI), housed by the Crawford School in the College of Asia and the Pacific at ANU. He has been with CDI since 2005 and prior to this, Luke worked within the discipline of Anthropology at ANU, including as research assistant to the Anthropology Department in the Research School of Pacific & Asian Studies (RSPAS), and as the inaugural course Coordinator of the Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development (MAAPD) in the School of Archaeology and Anthropology. In 2004 Luke was awarded a Masters in Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development at ANU.
Luke was employed at AusAID between 1998 and 2000 working in a variety of areas within the agency, including the PNG branch, where in 2000 he was given the opportunity to work for 3 months with the Bougainville Peace Monitoring Group as a civilian monitor on the island of Buka. In 1999 he spent 3 months in Alice Springs working with the NT Aboriginal Areas Protection Authority assisting in the registration of sacred sites within the Northern Territory of Australia.
Adrian Horridge »
After graduating with a PhD in neurophysiology in 1954, Professor Adrian Horridge, was a Scientific Officer in the Royal Aircraft Establishment, Farnborough, U.K., and a Research Fellow at St John’s College, Cambridge, with a Fellowship from the Commissioners for Exhibition of 1851. From 1956-69 he was Lecturer in Zoology then Director, Gatty Marine Laboratory, St Andrews University, Scotland.
As part of the collaboration with Professor Bullock to write a large compendium on the nervous systems of the invertebrates, there followed three visits to the USA; 1959-60 as a Visiting Associate Professor at University of California, and Fellow, Center for Advanced Study Stanford, California. In 1965, he was a Visiting Professor, Yale. From 1955-69, there were numerous lecture tours, including twice to Russia, and periods of work in marine laboratories, especially Plymouth, Millport, Naples, Port Royal (Jamaica), Friday Harbor (British Columbia), Ghardaga (Red Sea) Heron Island and Lizard Island (Great Barrier Reef). In 1969 he was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of London, and in the same year became the 4th founding Professor of the Research School of Biological Sciences in The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, and in 1973, Fellow, Australian Academy of Science, and Visiting Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford. In 1975 he was Chief Scientist on the U.S. Research Ship Alpha Helix, in the Moluccas, with a base camp at the island of Banda. This led to the writing of several books and monographs on traditional Indonesian boat building. From 1976-77, he was Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, and from 1987 onwards the Executive Director, Centre for Visual Sciences at ANU. Numerous lecture tours abroad including twice to India, Germany and China. He retired at the end of 1992, and from 1993-94 was again Visiting Fellow, Churchill College, Cambridge, U.K. He is at present an Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow in ANU.
Janet Hunt »
Janet Hunt is a Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) at the Australian National University where she teaches Australian Indigenous Development and conducts research on governance and engagement, community development, the socio-economic benefits of Aboriginal involvement in natural resource management in NSW, and the work of international NGOs with Indigenous communities in Australia. She previously managed the Indigenous Community Governance Project 2004-2008, an ARC Linkage Project with Reconciliation Australia. She has been a member of the Central Land Council’s Community Development Reference group since 2007. Her background is in education and international development and she has lectured in International and Community Development at RMIT and Deakin Universities. She was Executive Director of the Australian Council for Overseas Aid, the peak body of international development NGOs, from 1995-2000 and prior to that was Executive Director of the International Women’s Development Agency. She has served on a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees.
Katie Hayne »
Katie has worked as a digital media project officer at the CCR/RSH since 2001. She has worked on a number of research projects including an ARC linkage project Indigenous knowledge and Western science pedagogy: a comparative approach and an ARC E-Research project i-Dig: Developing a prototype multi-institutional search engine for Australian Indigenous collections. Katie currently advises on digital media and film projects and teaches in the Masters of Visual Culture Research. She has previously lectured in Computer Graphic Design at La Salle College, Beijing and tutored in Visual Communications at the University of SA, Adelaide.
Barry Hindess »
After working as a sociologist in Britain, Barry Hindess joined the Australian National University in 1987, later moving to ANU’s Research School of Social Sciences, where he learned to pass as a political scientist and developed his interest in the politics of corruption and anti-corruption. He is now an Emeritus Professor in ANU’s School of Politics and International Relations. Like many senior academics he has publications he prefers to forget, but he is happy to recall Discourses of Power: from Hobbes to Foucault, Governing Australia (with Mitchell Dean), Corruption and Democracy in Australia, Us and them: elites and anti-elitism in Australia (with Marian Sawer) and Governments, NGOs and Anti-Corruption: the new integrity warriors (with Luis de Sousa and Peter Larmour).
Boyd Hunter »
Boyd Hunter (PhD) is Senior Fellow at the Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, The Australian National University where he specialises in labour market analysis, social economics and poverty research. He is currently on the Steering Committee for the Longitudinal Study of Indigenous Australia, the Scientific Reference Group for the National Indigenous (Closing the Gaps) Clearinghouse, and has been the Managing Editor of the Australian Journal of Labour Economics since 2008. His publications span across many social science disciplines and, at last count, he had in excess of 1000 scholarly citations.
Christine Jubb »
Christine Jubb is a full time Research Fellow in ANCAAR at The Australian National University, having served previously as Professor of Accounting at Deakin University in Victoria. She has been a member of the Australian Auditing and Assurance Standards Board since 2005. She is co-author of a major auditing textbook, Assurance and Auditing: Concepts for a Changing Environment. She has secured research grants including from the Australian Research Council.
John Kleinig »
John Kleinig is Professor of Philosophy in the Department of Criminal Justice, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, and in the PhD Programs in Philosophy and Criminal Justice, Graduate School and University Center, City University of New York. He is also Strategic Research Professor at Charles Sturt University and Professorial Fellow and Program Manager in Criminal Justice Ethics at the Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics (Canberra, Australia). Prior to coming to John Jay College, Kleinig taught for 17 years at Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia). His early and continuing interests have been in moral, social and political philosophy, though he has also done extensive work in philosophy of education, bioethics and, more recently, criminal justice ethics. He is the author/editor of 18 books, and is currently completing four books: Patriotism (with Igor Primoratz and Simon Keller), The Problematic Virtue of Loyalty, Professional Police Practice (with P.A.J Waddington and Martin Wright), and Ends and Means in Policing.
Elizabeth Keen »
Elizabeth Keen studied English Language and Literature at Bristol University (BA Hons 1964) with special attention to the medieval period. While raising a family in Australia she worked as a teacher, then resumed her studies in the History Department at The Australian National University (MA 1996, PhD 2002). As a Visiting Fellow in the Department she published a number of papers on the medieval encyclopaedic genre and the monograph Journey of a Book: Bartholomew the Englishman and the Properties of Things (ANU Press) in 2007. The book-chapter ‘Shifting horizons: the medieval compilation of knowledge as mirror of a changing world’ is due to appear in 2011 in Encylopaedism before the Enlightenment ed. J. König and G.Woolf (CUP, in press).