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.
Matthew Spriggs »
Matthew Spriggs is an Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at The Australian National University and an Honorary Curator of Archaeology at the Vanuatu Cultural Centre, Port Vila, Vanuatu, where he now lives. His interests include Pacific and Island Southeast Asian archaeology, archaeological theory and the history of archaeology. His current ARC Project (with Lynette Russell of Monash University) is ‘Aboriginal Involvement in the Early History of Archaeology’ (2021–23).
Tristen Jones »
Tristen Jones is an archaeologist and curator based in the Department of Archaeology, School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry at the University of Sydney. Her research on Australian Indigenous and Pacific material culture collections focuses on the materiality and agency of objects, their relevance to contemporary Indigenous communities, and how collections can transform disciplinary histories. She was previously a research associate on Matthew Spriggs’ ARC Laureate Fellowship project ‘The Collective Biography of Archaeology in the Pacific: A Hidden History’ at The Australian National University.
Meet the Author: Doug Munro »
Doug Munro is a Wellington-based biographer and historian, and an Adjunct Professor of History at the University of Queensland. In an earlier incarnation he was a historian of the Pacific Islands with specialisms in trade and traders, indentured labour, and the role of Island pastors. Doug has
Adele Chynoweth »
Adele Chynoweth was a lecturer at the Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies at The Australian National University. She was a secondary school teacher before training as a theatre director and completing a PhD in contemporary Australian drama. She was curator of the National Museum of Australia’s touring exhibition ‘Inside: Life in Children’s Homes and Institutions’. She is the recipient of the 2018 Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Public Policy and Outreach. In 2020 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to public history.
Peter Dean »
Professor Peter Dean is the University of Western Australia’s first Chair of Defence Studies and the inaugural director of the University of Western Australia Defence and Security Institute. He has previously worked at The Australian National University and was the founding editor of the Melbourne University Press Defence Studies Series. He has authored a number of books including MacArthur’s Coalition: US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942–45 and The Architect of Victory: The Military Career of Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, and edited books on Australia in the Second World War, Australia’s Defence policy and the ANZUS alliance.
Tristan Moss »
Dr Tristan Moss is a senior lecturer at the Griffith Asia Institute, Griffith University. He is also a Fulbright Scholar and winner of a Discovery Early Career Researcher Award, working on a history of Australian space policy. He has previously worked at the University of New South Wales, Canberra, and the Australian War Memorial. He is the author of Guarding the Periphery: The Australian Army in Papua New Guinea, 1951–75, and co-editor of Beyond Combat: Australian Military Activity Away from the Battlefields.
Lekshmi N. Pillai »
Dr Lekshmi N. Pillai is Professor of Accounting and Executive Dean, School of Business and Public Policy, University of Papua New Guinea.
Jittipat Poonkham »
Dr Jittipat Poonkham (PhD, Aberystwyth University; MPhil, Oxford University) is Associate Professor of International Relations and Director of International Studies Program in the Faculty of Political Science, Thammasat University. He is the co-editor of International Relations as a Discipline in Thailand: Theory and Sub-fields (Routledge, 2019).
Karen Fox »
Dr Karen Fox is a senior research fellow in the National Centre of Biography and a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History, The Australian National University. A historian of Australia and New Zealand, she has taught Australian and imperial history and biography at ANU. She is fascinated by the question of how a life comes to be acclaimed as significant, or to be celebrated, and how these processes have differed in different places and times, as well as by the changing ways Australians and New Zealanders have understood their place in the world.
Meet the Author: Honae Cuffe »
Honae Cuffe holds a PhD in history from the University of Newcastle, and has worked in both the academic and public history sector. Honae has published widely on issues of history, contemporary policy and academic research practices. The Genesis of a Policy: Defining and Defending Australia's
Darren Byler »
Darren Byler is an Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, British Columbia.
Brij V. Lal »
Brij Lal, who died on Christmas Day 2021, was an enormously prolific historian of the Pacific Islands, especially of his birthplace Fiji. The 18 ANU Press titles below – variously written, edited or contributed to by Professor Lal – constitute a fraction of his published output. Not only was he an outstanding academic and journalist, commenting perceptively and knowledgeably on every Fiji election since 1982, as well as on the shifting waves of Fiji politics, he also acted as one of the three commissioners who drew up a draft of the new Fiji constitution in 1997 and, in addition, wrote about the global Indian diaspora, especially in the West Indies. Considered persona non grata in Fiji in recent years, he wore his expulsion as a tribute to his dedication to liberal democracy, and greatly valued his Australian citizenship.
Daniel J Fleming »
Dr Daniel J Fleming is Group Manager – Ethics and Formation for St Vincent’s Health Australia. He holds a PhD in moral philosophy, and is widely published in moral philosophy, theological ethics, moral education and health care ethics.
David J Carter »
Dr David J Carter is an academic lawyer and National Health and Medical Research Council Early Career Fellow in the Faculty of Law at the University of Technology Sydney. His expertise is in the legal, regulatory and governance challenges involved in the delivery of safe, effective and sustainable health care services.
Clive Moore »
Clive Moore is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Queensland. In 2005, he received a Cross of Solomon Islands for historical work on Malaita Island. He was inaugural president of the Australian Association for Pacific Studies (2006–10) and was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities in 2010. He has written extensively on Australian South Sea Islanders, New Guinea and Solomon Islands. His recent major publications are Solomon Islands Historical Encyclopaedia, 1893–1978 (2013), Making Mala: Malaita in Solomon Islands, 1870s–1930s (2017), and Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire (2019).
Meet the Author: Karen Fox »
Dr Karen Fox is a senior research fellow in the National Centre of Biography and a research editor for the Australian Dictionary of Biography in the School of History, The Australian National University. A historian of Australia and New Zealand, she has taught Australian and imperial history and
Pamela Burton »
Pamela Burton is a Canberra lawyer and writer. She founded her own law firm in 1976 and later practised as a barrister at the Canberra Bar.
Meredith Edwards »
Meredith Edwards AM, FASSA, FIPAA is Emeritus Professor at the Institute for Governance and Policy Analysis at the University of Canberra, Australia.
Tom Therik »
Dr Tom Therik was born in Atambua on Timor and grew up speaking a dialect of the Tetun language spoken in Wehali. The challenge for him was not in doing field research as an ‘outsider’ in some remote village but rather in mastering the ritual language of his local ‘instructors’ to enable him to understand what the people of Wehali regard as the ‘true knowledge of the ancestors’. His book offers a fundamental understanding of some of the important traditions of Timor.
Human Ecology Review »
Human Ecology Review is a semi-annual journal that publishes peer-reviewed interdisciplinary research on all aspects of human–environment interactions (Research in Human Ecology). The journal also publishes essays, discussion papers, dialogue, and commentary on special topics relevant to human
Claire E. F. Wright »
Claire E. F. Wright (PhD) is an economic and business historian at the University of Technology Sydney. She is interested in knowledge, markets and business strategy, and is working on the first history of Australian women in corporate leadership (ARC DECRA 2022–25). She serves on the executive of the Economic History Society of Australia and New Zealand, and tweets @hereorclaire.
Aidan Craney »
Aidan Craney is a research fellow at La Trobe University on the ARC Discovery Project ‘The future of the Pacific: youth leadership and civic engagement’. A development scholar/practitioner, anthropologist and social worker, Aidan has worked with development initiatives throughout the Pacific region and advised youth activists in Australia and the Pacific on thinking and working politically. His research looks at youth civic engagement and livelihoods in Oceania, and the practical and philosophical challenges for aid donors in supporting locally led development practices.
Henrike Frye »
Henrike Frye studied linguistics and philosophy at the universities of Erfurt and Pavia. She did her doctorate at the University of Cologne within the project ‘Documenting child language: The Qaqet of Papua New Guinea’, funded by the Volkswagen Foundation’s Lichtenberg program. She has worked on documenting language and cultural knowledge in Yucatec Maya (Mexico) and Qaqet (PNG). Her areas of research include language documentation and description, language acquisition, anthropological linguistics and their intersection with local biological knowledge.
Paul Pickering »
Paul Pickering is Director of the ANU Australian Studies Institute. He has published on transnational history, biography, social movements, music and politics, re-enactment as a methodology, industrial heritage, and the use of Linked Data in historical enquiry.
Australia and the World »
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