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.
Michael Kend »
Dr Michael Kend’s research interests include financial reporting, the market for audit services, and capital markets research. He is a research fellow of the Australian National Centre for Audit and Assurance Research (ANCAAR). He is a former accounting lecturer at ANU (2003 to July 2007), and a former convenor of the Australian Auditing Research Forum held annually at ANU since 2003. He has published in the areas of segment reporting, auditing expertise and corporate law reforms. He has been awarded several grants including from the CPA Australia grant scheme, ARC Linkage and the AFAANZ research grants.
James Leach »
James Leach holds a personal Chair in Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen in Scotland. His publications include: Creative Land: Place and Procreation on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea (2003) and Rationales of Ownership: Transactions and Claims to Ownership in Contemporary Papua New Guinea (2004). James was awarded the Royal Anthropological Institute J.B. Donne Prize in the Anthropology of Art for 1999 and The Philip Leverhulme Prize (for a co-creative approach to anthropological research) in 2004. His writing and teaching draws upon, and extends, long term collaborative ethnographic field research with Nekgini-language speaking people who live in and around Reite village on the Rai Coast of Papua New Guinea.
David Lawrence »
Dr David Lawrence is an anthropologist who has worked in Papua New Guinea, Indonesia, the Solomon Islands and Finland. He has academic qualifications in Asian history, political science, languages and in museum curatorial practice and librarianship.
David’s doctoral research examined the traditional and contemporary aspects of economic ties between Torres Strait Islanders and coastal Papuans.
In Australia he was Coordinator of the Torres Strait Baseline Study for the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority and later was commissioned to write on the nature and development of Aboriginal joint management in Kakadu National Park.
Among his publications are: Customary Exchange across Torres Strait (Queensland Museum 1994) Kakadu: the making of a national park (Miegunyah Press 2000); The Great Barrier Reef: finding the right balance (Melbourne University Press 2002) and most recently, Gunnar Landtman in Papua, 1910 to 1912 (ANU Press 2010).
Between 2005 and 2007 David was Research Coordinator on the Community Sector Program Community Snapshot: a national survey of 300 rural communities across the Solomon Islands. The final reports, Hem nao, Solomon Islands, tis team, were presented to AusAID in 2007. In 2005 he was a Frederick Watson Fellow at the National Archives of Australia and in 2010 he was Scholar-in-Residence at the National Film and Sound Archive.
He is currently a Resident Visiting Fellow at the Resource Management in Asia Pacific program at ANU and a consulting anthropologist on the 2010 and 2011 RAMSI People’s Surveys in the Solomon Islands.
Peter Greener »
Dr. Peter Greener is Dean of the Academic Faculty at the Command and Staff College of the New Zealand Defence Force and Adjunct Professor in the Faculty of Health and Environmental Sciences at AUT University, Auckland. He was Head of the Division of Public Health and Psychosocial Studies at AUT University from 2003 – 2007, and Head of the Department of Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology from 1998 – 2003. He has a Masters degree in Public Policy from Victoria University of Wellington and a PhD is in Political Studies, with a focus on New Zealand Defence decision making, from the University of Auckland. Peter’s research interests include the aetiology, management and resolution of conflict; post conflict development; military capability development; and the politics of defence decision making. He brings to these interests the perspective of his many years experience as a psychoanalytic psychotherapist. Peter’s most recent publications are ‘Preparing for an Uncertain Future: Force Structure Implications of the New Zealand Defence White Paper 2010’, Security Challenges, Volume 7, Number 1, Autumn 2011; ‘Ethics Research: Moral Psychology and its Promise of Benefits for Moral Reasoning in the Military’, (with Don Parker) in Military Ethics; International Perspectives, Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press (2010), edited by Lt.Col. Jeff Stouffer and Dr.Stefan Seiler; Timing is Everything: The Politics and Processes of New Zealand Defence Acquisition Decision Making, Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No.173, Canberra: ANU Press (2009), and Decision Making: International Perspectives, Kingston: Canadian Defence Academy Press (2009), edited jointly with Lt.Col. Jeff Stouffer.
Ann Genovese »
Ann Genovese is a historian of modern Australian jurisprudence, and an Associate Professor at the Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne. Trained in two disciplines, her work focuses on how law and history can be brought into better relationship, to address how Australians live with and practise their law.
Trish Luker »
Trish Luker is based in the Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney. Her primary research interests are located at the intersections of evidence law, legal decision-making and documentary practices.
Merici- Ursula Hall Academic Journal »
Please note: This journal is currently not publishing any new issues. Merici is the combined works of undergraduate authors at Ursula Hall. Merici contains research and analysis from a range of disciplines and is thoroughly reviewed by ANU academics to ensure the showcasing of the best Ursula Hall
The Human Voyage: Undergraduate Research in Biological Anthropology »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/hv The Human Voyage: Undergraduate Research in Biological Anthropology is a journal that publishes outstanding student articles in all areas of
Australia and New Zealand School of Government (ANZSOG) »
ANZSOG publishes a series of monographs and occasional papers, under the auspices of ANU Press. This series addresses a diverse range of topics on public policy and administration, from both practical and theoretical perspectives. Contributors are drawn from academia, government and the private
Practical Ethics and Public Policy »
The Practical Ethics and Public Policy series (formerly the CAPPE series) is edited by Professor Michael J. Selgelid, Academic Visitor in the ANU School of Philosophy and Director of the Centre for Human Bioethics at Monash. Scholarly Information Services
China Update Series »
The China Update Series is Australia's premier publication for in-depth discussion and analysis of the Chinese economy. The book features contributions from the world's leading academics, policymakers and government representatives who discuss the latest research on the Chinese economy.
Comparative Austronesian Series »
The Comparative Austronesian Series began as the publications of an interdisciplinary project involving anthropologists, linguists and archaeologists committed to the comparative study of the Austronesian-speaking populations of the world whose distribution extends from Taiwan to Timor, and from
Pacific Affairs Series »
The Department of Pacific Affairs at The Australian National University succeeds the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia (SSGM) Program and is devoted to the study of the Pacific peoples and their 22 countries and territories in Melanesia, Polynesia and Micronesia. The department constitutes
Pacific Series »
The Pacific Islands region is home to an astonishing variety of languages, cultures and histories. The Pacific series constitutes a major source of modern scholarship on this region through books that range from history and anthropology to political science, gender studies and environmental studies
Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (SDSC) »
The Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence series is a collection of publications arising principally from research undertaken at the SDSC. Scholarly Information Services
Vietnam Series »
The ANU Press Vietnam book series aims to publish original social sciences and humanities research on Vietnam that addresses issues of contemporary social and intellectual significance. The series accepts sole-authored studies and edited volumes on Vietnam that embody qualities of critical and
World Forest History Series »
The World Forest History Series aims to produce rigorous histories of forestry that inform contemporary environmental policy debates and provide enduring scholarly landmarks for future generations of historians and environmental researchers. Each book, published in hardcopy and available as a free
Cross-sections, The Bruce Hall Academic Journal »
Please note: This journal is now published via the ANU Student Journals platform; the latest issues can be found here: studentjournals.anu.edu.au/index.php/cs Representing the combined energies of a large group of authors, editors, artists and researchers associated with Bruce Hall at the ANU,
Aboriginal History Monographs »
Aboriginal History monographs present studies on particular themes or regions, or a series of articles on single subjects of contemporary interest. Scholarly Information Services
Made in China Yearbook »
The Made in China Yearbook series offers original articles in which scholars and activists analyse the latest trends in Chinese labour and civil society. With their unique blend of in-depth scholarly work written in a direct, accessible style, these books allow readers to situate current events and
PAFTAD »
The Pacific Trade and Development (PAFTAD) Conference is an academic conference series that originated in 1968. PAFTAD promotes policy-oriented academic research and discussion of Asia Pacific economic issues. In addition to the conferences, held approximately every 18 months, PAFTAD provides high
Field Studies in Ecology »
Field Studies in Ecology showcases the outcomes of research-led, intensive field courses that support undergraduates to accomplish short but high-quality investigations of ecological issues, culminating in papers subject to intense peer review. The series thus provides access to diverse original
China Story Yearbook »
The China Story Yearbook series collects and shapes Chinese contemporary stories from multiple voices and different perspectives under an annual theme for a broad and interested public and professional audience. It presents the larger Chinese realities, possibilities and uncertainties, and suggests
Australian Humanities Review »
Please note: This journal ceased publishing with ANU Press in 2012. Current issues are available at australianhumanitiesreview.org. Australian Humanities Review is a peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal featuring articles, essays and reviews focusing on a wide array of topics related to