Academic Staff: List of Experts

Click on map above for a breakdown of specialisation by country.

Philippines

The Australian National University has long encouraged research on the Philippines. Besides the faculty members who teach and research about the country, the university also features a strong library collection of Filipiniana that is nicely supplemented by the extensive collection at the nearby National Library of Australia. At any one time, four or five dozen MA and PhD students at the ANU are studying the country and researching topics ranging from early history to contemporary cultural, economic, political, and social conditions in the Philippines. Periodically Filipinists on campus organize "Philippine Update" conferences. The ANU Philippine Studies Group has monthly seminars, usually convening in the homes of local Filipino Australians, which creates a valuable linkage between the university and the wider Canberra community.

Academic specialists

Archaeology

Oceanic prehistory and ethnohistory, island colonisation, palaeoenvironments, zooarchaeology, chronometry, maritime adaptations.

Southeast Asia, Pacific Islands; palynology; fire; palaeoclimatology; disentangling climate change from human impact in the palaeoenvironmental record; detection of crop plants in the archaeological and palaeoenvironmental record.

Economics

The economies of ASEAN, especially Indonesia and The Philippines; industrialisation and foreign investment in East Asia; and Australia's economic relations with the Asia-Pacific region.

Politics and Security

Comparative politics; Southeast Asia; Asian studies.

Comparative politics, particularly ethnicity and ethnic conflict, decentralisation, parties and elections, and civil-military relations. Country focus: Papua New Guinea and the Philippines (especially Muslim Mindanao).

Society and Culture

Child labour Human Rights and Policy (especially the human rights of children), Gender Issues (especially gender and social policy; gender and governance), Social Policy for Vulnerable Children, Politics and Social Policy in Asia, especially Indonesia and the Philippines

The history of conflict and conflict resolution in the Asia Pacific region; Pacific maritime & naval history; environmental history; indigenous history; interdisciplinary methodology; comparative, regional history in the Asia Pacific region.

Agroecosystems and household economic strategies in the upland Philippines; autoethnographies and contended narratives of development; Filipino translocalities and overseas/immigrant communities; theories of place and subjectivity; diasporic Filipina identities.