TAJA Editorial Board
The TAJA editorial team can be contacted at TAJAeditorialTeam@gmail.com (for all correspondence including submission inquiries).
Andrew McWilliam, Editor
Andrew McWilliam is Professor of Anthropology in the School of Social Science and Psychology at Western Sydney University. He is a specialist in the anthropology of Southeast Asia with ethnographic interests in Eastern Indonesia and Timor-Leste as well as Northern Australia. He was Associate Editor of The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology (TAPJA 2013-2018). Current research interests include post-conflict processes of social and economic recovery in Timor-Leste and a collaborative ARC project on household vulnerability and the politics of social protection in Indonesia. He has also worked extensively in applied anthropology and international development, including long and short term advisory work on technical assistance and resource governance projects in Indonesia, as well as Aboriginal land claims and native title research in Northern Australia. Recent publications include co-edited volumes; The Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Timor-Leste (Routledge 2019), A New Era? Timor-Leste after the UN (ANU Press 2015) and Land and Life in Timor Leste: Ethnographic essays (ANU Press 2011); as well as a co-authored monograph, Property and Social Resilience in Times of Conflict: Land, Custom and Law in East Timor (Ashgate Press 2012).
Thomas Wright, Managing Editor
Thomas started his career as journalist and research officer and then documented the social and environmental impacts of tourism with a focus on plastic litter in Indonesia for his PhD research. He published articles in The Conversation, Oceania, Human Ecology, Le Monde diplomatique and continues to write on Medium. He applies qualitative research to solve problems through human-centred design as design anthropologist. He is passionate about making positive social and environmental contributions and about bringing anthropological ideas to a popular audience.
Geir Henning Presterudstuen, Review Editor
Dr Geir Henning Presterudstuen is a socio-cultural anthropologist and has conducted long-term fieldwork in Fiji since 2009. His PhD thesis, awarded in 2012, was entitled 'Masculinity, manhood and tradition' and reflects his main research interests which include the intersections between social categories such as gender, ethnicity, class and sexuality in context of the modern market economy. Other research interests includes economic anthropology, anthropology of religion and the supernatural and social theory. His key publications include a recent monograph Performing Masculinity: Body, Self and Identity in Modern Fiji (2019 Bloomsbury), two edited volumes: Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond (2014 Palgrave Macmillan, with Yasmine Musharbash) and Anthropologies of Value: Cultures of accumulation across the Global North and South (2016 Pluto Press, with L.F. Angosto Ferrandez) as well as a number of articles in international journals.
Editorial Board
Dr Jean-Paul Baldacchino
University of Malta
Professor Margaret Jolly
The Australian National University
Dr Kalpana Ram
Macquarie University
Dr Karen Sykes
University of Manchester
Dr Matt Tomlinson
The Australian National University
Professor David Trigger
University of Queensland
Professor Holly Wardlow
University Of Toronto
Dr Carol Warren
Murdoch University
Dr Helen Lee
La Trobe University
A/Prof Martha Macintyre
University of Melbourne
A/Prof Richard Vokes
University of Western Australia
Dr Gerhard Hoffstaedter
The University of Queensland
Dr Yasmine Musharbash
Australian National University
Dr Rupert Stasch
University of Cambridge