About us
The ANU College of Asia and the Pacific houses a remarkable assembly of scholars and resources devoted to the study of Australia's neighbourhood from Afghanistan to the Pacific. Dedicated to outstanding research and education, the College is a centre for Australia's intellectual engagement and scholarly dialogue with the societies, worlds of thought, economies and cultures of Asia and the Pacific.
Members of the College research in areas ranging from public policy, climate change, linguistics, archaeology to defence studies and international relations. Their work appears as scholarly articles in journals, public policy documents, as books, contributions to current debates in the media or through regional updates. As well as contributing to high quality research our staff teach at all levels, including undergraduate, masters-by-coursework programs and supervise higher degree by research students (PhD).
The College comprises the Office of the Dean, Professor Andrew Macintyre, and the following academic units:
Crawford School of Public Policy
The Crawford School is The Australian National University's graduate public policy school, influencing Australia, Asia & the Pacific policy research & education. The School provides advanced graduate and executive training, and produces research that frames scholarly and policy debates. The Director of the School is Professor Tom Kompas.
School of Culture, History & Language
The School of Culture, History & Language brings together over 100 academics dedicated to investigating and learning with and about the people, languages, and land of Asia and the Pacific region. In addition to offering graduate level programs, the College's undergraduate degrees are centralised within the School. The Acting Director of the School is Professor Brij Lal
School of International, Political & Strategic Studies
The School of International, Political & Strategic Studies is dedicated to advancing analysis and understanding of the international, political, societal, and strategic affairs of Asia and the Pacific. The Director of the School is Professor Paul Hutchcroft.
School of Regulation, Justice & Diplomacy
This new School brings together scholars and graduate students interested in many forms of regulation, including criminologists, lawyers, political scientists, psychologists and sociologists, in particular national contexts, across the Asia-Pacific and globally. The School comprises two departments: the Asia Pacific College of Diplomacy and the Regulatory Institutions Network. The Director is Professor Veronica Taylor
Some distinctions
The College owes its reputation in part to some of its distinguished founders and builders, among whom were
- A. L. Basham, author of The wonder that was India
- Sir John Crawford, an architect of the Green Revolution
- C. P. Fitzgerald, historian of China
- O. H. K. Spate, geographer of India and historian of the Pacific
- Stephen Wurm, linguist of the Pacific
- Hedley Bull, outstanding scholar in international relations
Today, one of the ways the College makes its mark is through the production of leading journals, including
Journals
- Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology
- Asian Studies Review
- China Heritage Quarterly
- The China Journal
- Asian-Pacific Economic Literature
- Pacific Economic Bulletin
- Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies
- State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Discussion Papers
- Chinese Southern Diaspora Studies
- Intersections
- Journal of Pacific History
- Journal of the Southeast Asian Linguistics Society
- East Asian History
- Review of Indonesian and Malaysian Affairs
