Ms. Maria Arnold
Ms. Arnold is working with Professor Groves in carrying out research on threats to the three largest chimpanzee populations in Uganda through the collection of data in the Congo Republic. Her research involves taking anatomical measurements of the three chimpanzee subspecies from Central, East and West Africa.
Dr. Robert Attenborough
Dr Robert Attenborough is a member of a cross-disciplinary team, led by Zhongwei Zhao of ADSRI, which has a research project called ‘Using dynamic microsimulation to understand the evolution and structure of kin- and community-based populations in the past, present and future’. The project received a three-year CASS Continuing Project Grant and in 2012, its first year, its main activities were a series of workshops. In 2013 it will move to a phase of specific computer-intensive microsimulation research studies focused on China and Australia.
Dr Doreen Bowdery
Dr Bowdery is a researcher focussing on the field of phytolith analysis.
Email: doreen.bowdery@anu.edu.au
Dr Shirley Campbell
Dr Campbell completed her book, /The Art of Kula/, analyzing the art produced by men for Kula in the Trobriand Islands, Papua New Guinea. She has continued her interests in the ways indigenous art reflects the contemporary aspirations of indigenous people to construct an identity that articulates with how they see themselves in a globalised discourse.
More recently she has initiated research that combines issues of embodiment within an Australian cultural context and 'gym culture'. In so doing, Dr Campbell is utilising anthropological insights and methodology to identify the elements that attract a segment of the Australian population into fitness centres and the processes of defining these cohorts as 'cultures' or sites for constructing, contesting, and displaying 'bodies'. She anticipates that this research will not only provide a greater understanding of how concepts of 'body' are developed, but hopes to turn this research towards policy development leading towards a healthier and more active population against an increasingly unhealthy backdrop to western lifestyles.
Email: shirley.campbell@anu.edu.au
Emeritus Professor Graham Connah
Professor Connah has written widely on African archaeology which is his main research field, his best-known book being African civilizations, published by Cambridge University Press and now in its second edition (2001). In 2004 he published a general book on the archaeology of Africa with Routledge, London, entitled Forgotten Africa, which has since been translated into German (2006) and French (2008). He was also one of the pioneers of Australian historical archaeology and in 2007 published The same under a different sky? A country estate in nineteenth-century New South Wales, British Archaeological Reports, Oxford, UK. In 2008 he completed a book on archaeological writing for Cambridge University Press. Email: graham.connah@effect.net.au
Dr. Catherine Day
Mr. Ian Farrington
Dr Don Gardner
Research interests: Social theory, Melanesian societies, cosmologies in historical perspective, cultural response to material conditions. Email:don.gardner@anu.edu.au
Dr. Antonio Gonzalez
Dr Gail Higginbottom
Research interests: Landscape archaeology, archaeoastronomy, megalithic monuments, history of archaeological theory, phenomenology, belief systems, heritage interpretation and the uses of archaeology. Email: gail.higginbottom@anu.edu.au
Dr Ian Keen
Dr Keen has recently completed a book published by Oxford University Press on comparative study of Aboriginal economy and society at the threshold of colonisation. For more information on the book, visit Aboriginal Economy and Society
Email: ian.keen@anu.edu.au
Dr. Christiane Keller
Ms. Anika Koenig
Dr Margot Lyon
Dr Lyon's research interests include: critical medical anthropology; the anthropology of pharmaceuticals; emotion and embodiment; globalisation and change; Southeast Asian societies particularly Indonesia. She is currently working on a book on patterns of medicine use in Indonesia.
Email: margot.lyon@anu.edu.au
Dr. Oliver Macgregor
Dr. Heloisa Mariath
Professor Isabel McBryde
Dr Barry McGowan
Dr McGowan is a researcher examining Chinese Australian history and archaeology.
Email: barry@cyberone.com.au
Dr Erik Meijaard
Dr. Erik Meijaard is a Senior Forest Ecologist with The Nature Conservancy - Indonesia. He is a member of the IUCN/SSC Deer Specialist Group and theGreat Ape Subsection of the IUCN/SSC Primate Specialist Group, and Regional Coordinator for Asia and member of the IUCN/SSC Pigs, Peccaries and Hippos Specialist Group. He is collaborating with Professor Colin Groves on a number of projects including studies on the morphometric variation in Bornean Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus) and Bornean Elephant (Elephas maximus) and in the longer term they plan to work on a book about the mammals of Sundaland.
Dr. Doreen Montag
Dr. Mandy Mottram
Dr Mary-Jane Mountain
Dr Mountain is pursuing research interests in Melanesian archaeology, taphonomy, post-glacial European archaeology.
Email: mary-jane.mountain@anu.edu.au
Dr. Raghavan Pathmanathan
Dr. Pathmanathan's recent research has seen him collaborate with international colleagues to submit a major Discovery project entitled 'Past Biodiversity and Palaeoclimates of Sri Lanka: A Palaeobiological approach using Miocene coastal marine deposits and continental Ratnapura- and younger strata'. Senior intellectual collaborators include Prof. Colin Groves (ANU), Prof. Phillip Gingerich (Univ of Michigan) and Prof Ashok Sahni, FRS (Rtd DUI Panjab University); chief investigators will be Prof GVR Prasad (Univ of Delhi), Dr.G. Pathmanathan, Dr.S.Dissenayake (Director General of Archaeology), Prof.Nirmale (Head, Dept of Zoology , University of Colombo) and himself.
Mrs. Fredeliza Piper
Mrs. Piper's research focuses on historical changes in music and musical tradition through the systematic analyses of contemporary and historical musical instruments. Mrs. Piper is interested in understanding how the music of the Philippines has varied as a result of cultural changes and globalisation over time. She has recently undertaken a short research project in the Field Museum in Chicago where she analysed musical instruments of the early 20th century. She is also in the process of completing a collaborative research project with staff from Cambridge University, focussing on stringed instruments of the Philippines.