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	Helen Abbott PhD Candidate Anthropology E: helen.abbott@anu.edu.au	Helen is a PhD Candidate in Anthropology at ANU. Her research explores what it means for people to inhabit a marine environment on Ataúro Island, in East Timor. In particular she is interested in...
	Myra Mentari Abubakar PhD Candidate Gender, Media and Cultural Studies E: myra.mentari@anu.edu.au	Myra is currently a PhD Candidate at the Schoolof Culture History and Language. Her dissertation is on: "Tjut Nyak Din, a Study of Female Heroism in the Land of Sharia" and examines how heroism is...
	Matthew Adeleye PhD Students Archaeology and Natural History E: Matthew.Adeleye@anu.edu.au	Adeleye is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture History and Language.
	Dinith Adikari PhD Candidate Anthropology E: dinith.adikari@anu.edu.au	Dinith is PhD candidate at the School.
	Jade Aikman PhD Candidate Gender, Media and Cultural Studies E: jade.aikman@anu.edu.au	Jade is a PhD Candidate at the School
	Tomoko Akami Associate Professor Pacific and Asian History E: tomoko.akami@anu.edu.au P: 6125 7572	She is currently working on an ARC project on 'Empire and Global Health Governance', examining the League of Nations Health Organization's operations in Asia and the Pacific region in the inter-...
	Joanne Allen Administration Officer Linguistics E: joanne.allen@anu.edu.au	Joanne is an Administration officer for the Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language
	Mitiana Arbon PhD Candidate Gender, Media and Cultural Studies E: mitiana.arbon@anu.edu.au	Research and Academic Background Mitiana is an indigenous Pacific Studies scholar completing his PhD thesis on Pacific Art, under the supervision of ARC Laureate Fellow Professor...
	Wayan Arka Fellow Linguistics E: wayan.arka@anu.edu.au P: 6125 2278	Areas of expertise Computational Linguistics Language In Culture And Society (Sociolinguistics) Indonesian Languages Language In Time And Space (Incl....
	Meera Ashar Lecturer Pacific and Asian History E: meera.ashar@anu.edu.au P: 6125 2686	Meera Ashar is a Lecturer in the School of Culture, History and Language at the Australian National University. She is also the Deputy Director of the South Asia Research Institute (SARI) and the...
	Umar Assegaf PhD candidate Anthropology E: Umar.Assegaf@anu.edu.au	Supervisor Dr Andrew McWilliam Topic TBA
	Simon Avenell Associate Professor Pacific and Asian History E: simon.avenell@anu.edu.au P: 6125 0404	Trained in History and Asian Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, Simon Avenell is an associate professor and director of the Japan Institute at the Australian National University...
	Chris Ballard Associate Professor Pacific and Asian History E: chris.ballard@anu.edu.au P: 6125 0305	My current interests revolve around indigenous Melanesian historicities - their transformation through cross-cultural encounters; their representation through various media, including film and...
	Zurab Baratashvili PhD Students Linguistics E: u6839967@anu.edu.au	Zurab is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture History and Language.
	Ruth Barraclough Senior Lecturer Pacific and Asian History E: ruth.barraclough@anu.edu.au P: 6125 3438	I recently completed my book Factory Girl Literature: Sexuality, Violence and Representation in Industrializing Korea, on the figure of the factory girl in twentieth-century Korean literature. An...
	Joanna Barrkman PhD Candidate Anthropology E: joanna.barrkman@anu.edu.au	Joanna is a PhD Candidate at the School
	Phillip Beaumont PhD Students Archaeology and Natural History E: Phillip.Beaumont@anu.edu.au P: 52458	Phillip is currently a PhD Candidate at the School of Culture History and Language
	Stuart Bedford ARC Future Fellow Archaeology and Natural History E: stuart.bedford@anu.edu.au P: 02 6125 4297	The fieldwork focus of my research over the last fifteen years has been the islands of Vanuatu, in the southwestern Pacific. Research issues that have been addressed at both a local and regional...
	Markus Bell PhD candidate Anthropology E: Markus.Bell@anu.edu.au	Supervisor Dr Andrew Kipnis Topic; Imagining 'Us' Above and Beyond Borders: An account of the emerging North Korea Diaspora in Northeast Asia
	Shameem Black Fellow Gender, Media and Cultural Studies E: shameem.black@anu.edu.au P: 6125 3180	I joined the Australian National University from the United States, where I received my PhD from Stanford University and served as an Assistant Professor of postcolonial literature in the English...
	Clara Boulanger PhD Candidate Archaeology and Natural History E: clara.boulanger@anu.edu.au	Cotutelle program with the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle in France Qualifications Erasmus Mundus Master in Quaternary and Prehistory (...
	Mike Bourke Visiting Fellows E: Mike.bourke@anu.edu.au	Visiting Fellow
	Corey Bresnan Administrative Assistant Linguistics E: u4861643@anu.edu.au	.
	Carolyn Brewer Journal Editor: Intersections: Gender and Sexualit Gender, Media and Cultural Studies E: Carolyn.brewer@anu.edu.au	Journal Editor: Intersections: Gender and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, ARC Laureate Editor
	Sally Brockwell Fellow Archaeology and Natural History E: Sally.Brockwell@anu.edu.au P: 02 6125 2217	Currently I am involved in several multi-disciplinary collaborative projects: ARC Linkage led by Macquarie University with Partner Organization Rio Tinto Alcan, investigating earth mounds at Weipa...