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Associate Professor Dharma Arunachalam is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Political and Social Inquiry at Monash University. He received his PhD in Demography from the Australian National University in 1992 and was a Rockefeller Postdoctoral Fellow at the Population Studies Centre, University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, USA) from 1991-1994. Before joining Monash University in January 2006, he taught at the Department of Societies and Cultures, University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand from 1995-2005. Dharma's research focus is in the field of social demography including fertility, family formation and change, family/household structure, health and migration. He has has recently co-authored the first ever book of its kind on New Zealand family (The New Zealand Family From 1840: A Demographic History, Auckland University Press, pp.454, 2007). Associate Professor Dina Burger is Deputy Pro Vice-chancellor Research at Monash South Africa. She studied at the University of Pretoria and currently holds a D Admin degree with the thesis title A National Policy Framework for Disaster Management with Specific Reference to HIV and AIDS in South Africa as well as a Certificate in Counter Disaster Planning and Management from the University of Cranfield in the United Kingdom. Dina was an Associate Professor at UNISA and has supervised and co-supervised various postgraduate students to successfully complete their higher degrees by research. In addition, she has published several articles in journals and contributed to a book on Project Management. She has also been involved in several research projects. Her broad research interests include Leadership and Research Management. Dr Anna Clark is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in history education at Monash University. Her PhD study, Teaching the Nation: the politics and pedagogy of Australian history, was published by Melbourne University Press. With Stuart Macintyre, she wrote The History Wars (Melbourne University Press 2003), and in 2005 published Convicted!, a history book for children (Hardie Grant Egmont). Robert Crawford completed his PhD in 2002. He has concentrated on the history of Australia's advertising industry and its growth and development during the twentieth century. His work has been published in a range of journals, including Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, and Media History. Robert's book 'But Wait There's More': A History of Australia's Advertising Industry, 1900-2000 was published by Melbourne University Publishing in 2007. Jim Davidson, a former editor of 'Meanjin', lectured at Rhodes University in the 1960s. He has written a number of articles on Australian-South African links, and produced what is recognised as the best edition of Anthony Trollope's 'South Africa' (Balkema, Cape Town, 1973). When a professor at Victoria University, Melbourne, he ran a course on the Rise and Fall of Apartheid. He has just completed a biography of the historian W.K.Hancock - who wrote more on South Africa than he did on Australia. Professor Tony Dingle is Associate Dean, Education, in the Faculty of Business and Economics at Monash University and was appointed to this position at the beginning of 2005. He was formerly Head, Department of Economics at Monash University and also taught economic history. He has written or edited 10 books including Settling, Vol 2 of the three volume 150th anniversary history of Victoria, (1984); Vital connections: Melbourne and its Board of Works, 1891-1991, (1991) (with Carolyn Rasmussen); as well as The Cream Brick Frontier: Histories Of Australian Suburbia, (1995) (with Graeme Davison and Seamus O'Hanlon). He was Associate Editor on the recently published Encyclopaedia of Melbourne (2005). In 2005 he received an ARC Discovery Grant, jointly with the Faculty of Arts, for $211,000 for research into the de-industrialisation and reinvention of inner Melbourne, 1970 - 2000. A Yawuru man from Broome, Western Australia, Patrick Dodson is a former Royal Commissioner into the Aboriginal Deaths in Custody, and was Chairman of the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation for six years. Still actively involved in matters relating to the preservation and enhancement of indigenous rights and culture, Patrick Dodson lives and works in Broome. Dr David Dunstan is a Senior Lecturer at the National Centre for Australian Studies, Monash University. David graduated in History at Monash University in 1975. He completed his PhD at the University of Melbourne in 1983 and Graduate Diploma in Editing and Publishing at RMIT University in 1995. He has taught in Victorian schools and Australian History and Australian Studies at the University of Melbourne and at Monash and Deakin universities and has worked with the Government of Victoria in heritage administration and with Museum Victoria. He is the author of Governing the Metropolis (1984), Better Than Pommard!: a History of Wine in Victoria (1994) and Owen Suffolk's Days of Crime and Years of Suffering (2000). He is a contributor to the Australian Dictionary of Biography, a member of its Victorian working party and its Board, an editor of the Journal of Publishing , an associate editor of The Encyclopedia of Melbourne (2005), and an associate and board member of the Tourism Research Unit at Monash University. Norman Etherington is Professor of History at the University of Western Australia. He has continuing research interests in African History, South African History and the History of the British Empire. Other areas of expertise include the history and heritage of the urban built environment; art and literature in the age of imperialism; and the history of Christian missions. He has been President of the Australian Historical Association and of the Council of the National Trust (WA). As Deputy Vice-Chancellor (International) of Monash University, Professor Stephanie Fahey is responsible for setting the university's strategic direction for international engagement in research and education. Her career has included positions at several Australian universities, most recently as Director of the Research Institute for Asia Pacific and Acting Assistant Pro Vice-Chancellor (International - Asia Pacific) at the University of Sydney. Professor Fahey holds a Bachelor of Arts with honours from the University of Sydney and a PhD from the Australian National University. Her research interests have covered socio-economic development in the Pacific, primarily Papua New Guinea , the transition of Vietnamese society and economy, and more recently the use of the internet in the expression and development of international relations among youth in North East Asia . Active in community engagement, Professor Fahey has been appointed to many influential government boards, non-governmental organisation boards and business councils including the Foreign Affairs Council, the National Board of the Australia China Business Council, the Australia Korea Foundation and a subcommittee of the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Committee which looks at Australia's engagement with China and India. Sonwabo Eddie Funde is an M.Sc Electrical Engineering graduate from the St Petersburg Polytechnical Institute (1975). He underwent further training in public policy and change management at the Civil Service College in the UK (1992), the USIA Programme on Government Management and Training (1992), the Executive Candidates Programme at Wits University (1993). His career has included being Deputy Chairman of the South African Telecommunications Authority (SATRA)(1997 - 2000), Chairman of the Telecommunications Regulators Association of Southern Africa (TRASA)(1998-1999), Chairman of the GMPCS-MoU Implementation Task Team at the ITU (1998), ANC Chief Representative in Australia and New Zealand (1883 - 1991) and Head and International Affairs Head of the ANC Youth (1978-1983). Mr Funde was most recently non-Executive Chairman of the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), and has been Chairman of the National Institute for Economic Policy (NIEP) and Board of Trustees of the Independent Development Trust (IDT). Mr Philip Green OAM has been the Australian High Commissioner to South Africa since August 2004. He is a senior Australian diplomat with a strong background in Africa. He has served in the Australian missions in Tanzania, Zambia, and the UK, and was from 1998 to 2000 Australia's High Commissioner to Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda and Ambassador to Ethiopia and Eritrea. Philip has also worked on African affairs in the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade and the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. He escorted President Mandela on his historic first visit to Australia following his release from prison in 1990. Mr Green has also worked on South East Asian affairs, international law, refugee matters and intelligence. From 2000 to2001, he was Deputy Principal Member of the Refugee Review Tribunal. From 2001 to 2003, he headed the Sydney office of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. In 2004, he headed the secretariat of the Inquiry into Australian Intelligence Agencies. He was awarded the Order of Australia Medal in 2002 for his involvement in the response to the Bali tragedy. Albert Grundlingh is Professor and Head of the History Department at the University of Stellenbosch. Before taking up the position as Head of the History Department at Stellenbosch in 2001, he headed the History Department at the University of South Africa (Unisa). Prof. Grundlingh has published monographs on collaborators in Boer society during the South African War of 1899-1902 and South African black people and the First World War. Olga Havnen is the coordinator of the Combined Aboriginal Organisations of the Northern Territory. She is also a member of the ACOSS Board of Governors, is on the National Committee of ANTaR and works for the Aboriginal Land Council. Professor Jonathan Hyslop received MA degrees from the University of Oxford and the University of Birmingham, and a Ph.D from the University of the Witwatersrand. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of the Witwatersrand and is on secondment to WISER. He has published numerous articles on aspects of 20th century South African social history and is the author of The Classroom Struggle: Policy and Resistance in South Africa 1940-1990 (Pietermaritzburg, University of Natal Press, 1999) and editor of African Democracy in the Era of Globalisation (Johannesburg, University of the Witwatersrand Press, 1999). His recent research has been around issues of race in 20th century South Africa. He is currently completing a biography of the Scottish/South African trade unionist, James Thompson Bain. He is commencing a study of patronage politics in contemporary Southern Africa. Marilyn Lake is Professor of History at LaTrobe University, Australia. Her research interests include Australian history; nation and nationalism; gender, war and citizenship; femininity and masculinity; history of feminism; race, gender and imperialism; and global and trans-national history. Profes include an ARC funded study of the idea of the white man's country in the trans-national framework of nineteenth century racial history, the development of the census and the global circulation of historical knowledge; historical ideas of manhood; and a series of biographical studies of Australian federal fathers: HB Higgins, Alfred Deakin, Edmund Barton and WM Hughes. Ms Zodwa Lallie is Chief Director, South Asia, South East Asia and Australasia, for the South African Department of Foreign Affairs. Bruce Murray is Professor of History at the University of the Witwatersrand. He is the author of several books, including The "Open Years": A History of the University of the Witwatersrand , Johannesburg , 1939- 1959 and Caught Behind: Race and Politics in Springbok Cricket. Professor Tyrone Pretorius commenced as Pro Vice-Chancellor, Monash South Africa in April 2005. His responsibilities include helping Monash South Africa further embrace its role in the development of South African society and developing the campus into a world-class teaching and research facility. Professor Pretorius has an outstanding record of academic leadership and a strong background in higher education management. Before joining Monash he was deputy vice-chancellor (academic) at the University of the Western Cape (UWC) and spent 10 years as dean of community and health sciences at UWC. With a background in psychology, Professor Pretorius has doctorates from UWC and the University of the Orange Free State in South Africa and a post doctoral fellowship from Yale University in the United States . In 2001 he received an award from the Psychology Society of South Africa recognising his contribution to the field of psychology. Professor Pretorius has published extensively on coping and stress, statistics and research methodology and remains an active researcher. He is also a past associate editor of the South African Journal of Psychology. His professional involvement includes being chairman of the Ministerial Committee on Mental Health and Substance Abuse. He is also a member of the South African Medical and Dental Council, the South African Universities Vice-Chancellors Association and the New York Academy of Sciences. Dr. Bhadra Ranchod has played a leadership role in careers as a legal academic, public servant, diplomat and in government. He studied law at Cape Town University where he obtained the B.A. and LL.B degrees (1967) and was awarded a postgraduate scholarship to study at Leiden University in The Netherlands where he completed the Master of Laws (Doctorandus Iuris) in 1969. Thereafter he proceeded to Queens' College Cambridge to conduct research on his doctoral thesis. On 21 June 1972 he obtained the Doctor of Laws degree from Leiden. On his return to South Africa in 1972 the Cape Town Supreme Court admitted him as an Advocate. He then embarked on an academic career at the University of Durban-Westville (1972 – 1986). In 1980/81 he spent a year at the prestigious Law School at Columbia University in New York City where he was a visiting scholar in residence; his research was undertaken on a Bill of Rights for South Africa . With the first democratic elections held in April 1994, Dr. Ranchod was elected as a Member of Parliament (National Assembly) for KwaZulu-Natal. On 9 May of that year the newly elected members of the National Assembly chose him by unanimous vote to serve as Deputy Speaker. In June 1996 Dr. Ranchod was appointed by former President Nelson Mandela as High Commissioner to Australia , New Zealand and the South Pacific Islands . |
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