Joanne Wallis, BA (Hons), LLB (Hons), MA (Political Science), LLM (Public & International Law) (Melb); PhD (Politics & International Studies) (Cantab)

Lecturer and Convener, Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Security, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre ANU College of Asia and the Pacific

Email: joanne.wallis@anu.edu.au

Biographical statement

Dr Joanne Wallis completed her PhD in the Department of Politics and International Studies at the University of Cambridge. Her PhD research considered the role that constitution-making plays in building state and nation in post-conflict societies, using case studies of Timor-Leste and Bougainville. Her research had a particular emphasis on the opportunities for engagement between 'liberal' and 'local' approaches to governance, justice, development and security during these processes. Joanne’s Masters research considered the relationship between globalisation and development in small states.

From January 2009 to January 2012 Joanne was an Honorary Fellow of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne. From November 2008 to February 2009 she was a Visiting Scholar at the State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project at the ANU. In 2006 she was a Fulbright Scholar at the Walker Institute of International and Area Studies at the University of South Carolina. She has also conducted research consultancies for Australian and international NGOs.

Research interests

The South Pacific (particularly Timor-Leste, Bougainville and Tonga); state and nation-building; constitution-making; peace-building and reconciliation; ethnicity and nationalism; the link between ‘liberal’ and ‘local’ approaches to governance, justice, development and security; and the relationship between globalization, trade and development.

Key publications

• ‘A liberal-local hybrid peace project in action? The increasing engagement between the liberal and local in Timor-Leste', Review of International Studies, forthcoming (available now on FirstView).
• 'Building a liberal-local hybrid peace and state in Bougainville', Pacific Review, forthcoming.
• 'Victors, Villains and Victims: Timor-Leste's experiment in managing ethno-national conflict', Ethnopolitics, forthcoming (available now on iFirst).
• 'Ten years of peace: assessing Bougainville's progress and prospects', The Round Table, Vol. 101, No. 1, 2012, pp. 29-40.
• 'Friendly Islands' in an unfriendly system: examining the process of Tonga's accession to the WTO', Asia Pacific Viewpoint, Vol. 51, No. 3, 2010, pp. 262-277.
• 'Transnationalism and the Development of the Deterritorialized Tongan Nation-State', Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism, Vol. 9, No. 1, 2009, pp. 408-432.

Career highlights

Lecturer, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (2012-); Convener, Bachelor of Asia-Pacific Security, Strategic and Defence Studies Centre (2012-); Invited Lecturer and Tutor, School of Humanities and Life Sciences, Swinburne University (2010); Seminar Leader, Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge (2009); Lecturer and Tutor, School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne (2004-2007); Resident Political Science Tutor, Ormond College, University of Melbourne (2005-2007); Political Science Tutor, Trinity College, University of Melbourne (2005-2007); Lawyer, MolinoCahill Lawyers (2005-2006); Lawyer, Allens Arthur Robinson (2002-2004).