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Past University and Scholarly Appointments
1988 Visiting Lecturer, History Department, University of Papua New Guinea
1990-2000 Research Fellow, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne
1991 Visiting Lecturer, History Department, University of Papua New Guinea
1996 Visiting Research Fellow, National Research Institute, Papua New Guinea
1997- Affiliate Professor, Landegg Academy, Switzerland
1997-2000 Member, Advisory Board, Australian Journal of Asian Law
1999 Visiting Research Fellow, Nagoya University, Japan
2000 Associate Dean, Faculty of Undergraduate Studies, Landegg Academy
Current scholarly appointments
1994- Member, International Centre for Conflict Resolution Advisory Board, University of Melbourne
2000- Centre Associate, Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, University of Melbourne.
Books
1988 Yerrinbool Bahá'í School 1938-1988: An Account of the First Fifty Years, CPN Publications, Canberra, 29pp.
1992 Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Pacific Islands, Conflict Studies No. 255, Research Institute for the Study of Conflict and Terrorism,
Great Britain. 33pp.
1994 and Cheryl Saunders (editors), The Powers and Functions of Executive Government: studies from the Asia Pacific Region, Melbourne:
Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies, Melbourne, 170pp.
1994 and Truong Truong (editors), Infrastructural Development and Legal Change in Vietnam, Melbourne: Centre for Comparative Constitutional
Studies, 167pp.
1995 & Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook vol 1, 1993, Melbourne: Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
1996 & Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook vol 2, 1994, Melbourne: Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies.
1997 & Cheryl Saunders (eds), The Peoples' Representatives: Political Representation in Asia-Pacific Electoral Systems, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
1997 & Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook vol 3, 1995 Melbourne: Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (344pp).
1997 Messages to the Antipodes: Communications from Shoghi Effendi to the Bahá'í Communities of Australasia, Mona Vale: BahÇ'ê Publications Australia,
472pp.
1998 & Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook vol 4, 1996 Melbourne: Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (386pp).
1999 & Cheryl Saunders (eds), Asia-Pacific Constitutional Yearbook vol 5, 1997 Melbourne: Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (330pp).
2000 The Bahá'í Faith in Hong Kong, (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Bahá'í Publishing Trust).
Web-published at http://www.hk.bahai.org/eng/introduction/hkhistory/
Forthcoming
& Cheryl Saunders, Asia Pacific Constitutional Systems, (Cambridge University Press).
- Ambassador at the Court: The Life and Photography of Effie Baker. (George Ronald, 2002)
Conference Proceedings
1982 "Influences on the Art of Mark Tobey", Proceedings of the first National Bahá'í Studies Conference, Yerrinbool, N.S.W. (reprinted in Bahá'í Studies
Bulletin 4:1 (March 1986)
1983 "The Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1920-1934: Some notes on Clara and Hyde Dunn", Proceedings of the Second National Bahá'í Studies Conference,
Yerrinbool, N.S.W.
1985 "The World Problematique" - Fourth National Bahá'í Studies Conference, Yerrinbool, N.S.W., Conference Proceedings.
1986 "Effie Baker: An Australian Woman" - Proceedings of the Bahá'í Studies Conference 1986 (Fifth National Conference, Macquarie University),
Association for Bahá'í Studies.
1987 ÎThe Emergence of the Bahá'í Faith in the South Pacific: 1953-1963â, Proceedings of the Bahá'í Studies Conference 1987 (Sixth National Conference,
Griffith University), Association for Bahá'í Studies.
1988 ÎAustralian Women and Religious Change: Margaret Dixson and the first Melbourne Bahá'ísâ, Proceedings of the Association for Bahá'í Studies,
Australia, 1988.
1989 "Hilda Brooks and the Australian Bahá'í Community" - Eighth National Bahá'í Studies Conference, Adelaide University. Published in Sitarih 'Ala'í &
Colleen Daws
(eds), The Role of Women in an Advancing Civilization, Association for Bahá'í Studies, Australia, 1989.
1992 "Renegotiating the Social Contract: Constitutional Change in the Pacific Islands", in Donald H. Rubinstein (ed, Pacific History: papers from the 8th
Pacific History
Conference, University of Guam Press and Micronesian Area Research Centre, 1992.
1992 "Pacific Bahá'í Communities 1950-1964", in Donald H. Rubinstein (ed), Pacific History: Papers from the 8th Pacific History Association Conference,
University of
Guam Press & Micronesian Area Research Center, Guam, pp.73-95.
1992 "On dialogue between Asia-Pacific Nations and Peoples", in Yaw Saffu and David Roskies (eds), Papers on Indonesia-South Pacific Relations,
(Yagl-Ambu special edition, 16:2, June 1992), Port Moresby.
1994 "The elements of democracy: perspectives from the South Pacific", International Conference on Constitution and Democratic Politics by Renmin
University of China, Beijing: People's University of China, pp322-342. (in Chinese)
1995 "The Bahá'í Faith in Tasmania" in The Family: Our Hopes and Challenges. Proceedings of the National Bahá'í Studies Conference, Hobart, July 1994,
Association for Bahá'í Studies.
1996 ÎThe Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1947-1963â, 75 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Australia: Proceedings from the 1995 National Bahá'í Conference,
Association for Bahá'í Studies - Australia, 61-82.
1997 ÎA Note on the Challenges of Contemporary Governanceâ, From Poverty to Prosperity: Proceedings from the 1996 National Bahá'í Conference,
Association for Bahá'í Studies - Australia, 126-145.
Book chapters
1988 "The Bahá'í Faith in Australia", in Ian Gillman (ed) Many Faiths, One Nation, William Collins, Melbourne.
1989 "Persian Bahá'ís in Australia", in Abe Ata (ed), Religion and Ethnic Identity: an Australian Study, Vol.II, Victoria College & Spectrum, Melbourne.
1994 "The Fitzners of Portuguese Timor", in Clair Vreeland (comp.) And the Trees Clapped their Hands: Stories of Bahá'í Pioneers, George Ronald, Oxford,
320-332.
1995 & Garry Woodard, "Australia's Human Rights Policy in Asia", in Deborah MacNamara & Russell Trood (eds), 1995 Asia-Australia Survey, Centre for the
Study of Australia-Asia Relations, Macmillan Education Australia, 62-72.
1996 ÎThe Most Holy Book: Implications for State and Societyâ, The Kitáb-i-Aqdas, Association for Bahá'í Studies, Sydney.
1997 "The Australian Bahá'í Community and Aboriginal People - early interactions", in Kamal Puri (ed), Indigenous Peoples: In the Wake of Mabo, Mona Vale:
Bahá'í Publications, 47-72.
1997 "Constitutional Trends in Asia", in Veronica Taylor (ed) Australian Perspectives on Asian Legal Systems, Sydney: LBC Information Services
1997 ÎIntroduction: Systems of Representation in Asia-Pacific Constitutions-A Comparative Analysisâ, in Graham Hassall & Cheryl Saunders (eds),
The Peoples' Representatives: Political Representation in Asia-Pacific Electoral Systems, Sydney: Allen & Unwin.
1999 ÎCitizenship in the Asia-Pacific: a Survey of Contemporary Issuesâ in Alistair Davidson & Kathleen Weekley (eds), Globalism and Citizenship
(Macmillan: Houndsmills), pp49-70.
1999 & Sumasy Singin, ÎCitizenship in Papua New Guineaâ in Alistair Davidson & Kathleen Weekley (eds), Globalism and Citizenship (Macmillan:
Houndsmills), pp104-118.
2000 & Nancy Ackerman, ãRussia and the Bahá'í Faith: A Historic Connectionä, The Bahá'í World 1998-1999, Haifa: World Center Publications, 157-192.
Forthcoming
ÎCitizenship in Papua New Guineaâ, in Anthony J. Regan (ed) 20 Years of the Constitution, Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea
ÎThe Parliamentary Committee Systemâ, in Anthony J. Regan (ed) 20 Years of the Constitution, Port Moresby: University of Papua New Guinea
ãPhilippinesä in Elections in Asia. A Data Handbook (ed. by Dieter Nohlen et al.; Oxford: Oxford University Press)
ãCook Islandsä in Elections in Asia. A Data Handbook (ed. by Dieter Nohlen et al.; Oxford: Oxford University Press)
ãContemporary Governance and Conflict Resolution: A BahÇ'ê Reading in Charles Lerche (ed.) Healing the Body Politic: Aspects of Conflict Resolution
in the New World Order (London: Bahá'í Publishing Trust), forthcoming 2000.
ãPersian Integration in Western Communitiesä, in Seena Fazel & John Danesh (eds), Challenges and Controversies in the Bahá'í Community, Oxford:
George Ronald
ãDunn, Clara and Hydeä, Contributions to an Encyclopaedia of the Bahá'í Faith (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust, forthcoming)
ãGovernance and the rule of law in the South Pacificä, in Anita Jowett (ed) Legal Developments in the South Pacific
Refereed Articles
1991 "The Failure of the Tommy Kabu Movement: a reassessment of the evidence", Pacific Studies, 14:2, March, pp29-51.
1991 "Outpost of a World Religion: the Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1920-1947", Journal of Religious History, 16:3, June, 315-338.
1993 "Notes on the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions in Russia", Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 5:3, pp41-80, 86.
1996 "The Bahá'í Faith in the Formative Age: The World Crusade", Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 6:4, 1-21
1997 ãDemocracy in Asia Revisitedä, Asian Studies Review, 21:2-3, 2-18.
1998 ãObserving the 1998 Cambodian General Election, LAWASIA Journal, 82-98.
1999 ãThe 1998 Cambodian Election: the Quest for Representative Democracy, Constitutionalism and Civil Societyä, 1:1 Australian Journal of Asian Law, 55-79.
Forthcoming
ãThe Future of Bahá'í Studiesä, Bahá'í Studies Review
Translations and Reprints
1994 "Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Pacific Islands" in Peter Janke, (ed). Ethnic and Religious Conflicts: Europe and Asia, Dartmouth.
1995? "Notes on the Bábí and Bahá'í Religions in Russia", Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 5:3, pp41-80, 86. Translated into Russian as "The Bahá'í Faith in Russia",
appendix II in Hatcher & Martin, Emerging Global Religion.
1997 ãNationalism and Ethnic Conflict in Asia-Pacific Islandsä Shijieminzu (World Nations), no 2, p29-38; no 3, p33-39. (translated by Li Qixin & Li Yan)
1998 & Seena Fazel, "The Bahá'í Faith in Europe", Payam-i-Bahá'í No. 228, November, 15-24.
Other article, reports, and working papers
1982 "Bahá'í Faith: Persecution of a Minority", Union Recorder (University of Sydney), 28 June 1982.
1982 "Television covers persecution" Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, August 1982, 6.
1982 "Famous Australian Women Photographers" Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, September 1982, 6.
1983 "The Bahá'í Faith in Australia 1920-1934: Some notes on Clara and Hyde Dunn", Bahá'í Studies Bulletin (U.K.), 2:1 (June).
1983 "Effie Baker: Archives in need of information", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, July 1983, 22-23.
1983 "On individuality: Other People, Other Places - review", and "The Master: Stories about 'Abdu'l-Bahá, The Mystery of God, 'Abdu'l-Bahá in London",
Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, August 1983, 15-16.
1983 "On Persecution: Iran's Secret Pogrom, The Bahá'ís in Iran, Seven Martyrs of Hurmuzak - reviews", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, September 1983, 8-10.
1983 "Days to Remember - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, October 1983, 8-10.
1984 "New biographies of Hands of the Cause: To Move the World, George Townshend, Lioness at the Threshold - reviews", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin,
March-April 1984, 13-15.
1984 "The Imperishable Dominion - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, May 1984, 11-12.
1984 "From Copper to Gold: The Life of Dorothy Baker - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, November 1984, 14.
1985 "Martha Root: Herald of the Kingdom - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, July 1985, 12.
1985 Martha Root's Tours: 1924, 1939, Bahá'í Studies Bulletin 3:3 (September 1985), 92‑99.
1985 "Du'a: on Wings of Prayer - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, September 1985, 12.
1985 First and Finest", Herald of the South, July.
1985 "Seeing the Big Picture", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, December 1985, 12-14.
1985 "Story of the Faith's Pacific Progress: Religious Cooperation in the Pacific - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, December 1985, 18.
1986 "Travels in the Land of the Ox-Cart: Amatu'-Baha Rúhíyyih Khánum in India - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, January 1986, 15.
1986 "Need for Global Perspective: Emerging Global Religion - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, July 1986, 10.
1986 "Temple of Australasia: Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Special Supplement", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, November; reprinted in Bahá'í News, November.
1986 "Effie Baker: A Remarkable Woman", Herald of the South, April 1986, 10-15.
1987 "All Flags Flying - review", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, March 1987, 24.
1988 "Islands Inspiration: Solomon Islands artist Frank Haiku", Herald of the South 14, January, pp47-8.
1990 "War and Peace in Indochina, 1979-1989", Teaching History, 23:4, January, pp22-28.
1990 (review) "Law, Politics and Government in the Pacific Island States, and "Pacific Courts and Legal Systems", Public Law Review, 1:3 September.
1990 "Developments: South Pacific", Public Law Review, 1:3 September, 273-277.
1990 "Passing of Hand of the Cause Collis Featherstone", Australian Bahá'í Bulletin, October 1990. Reprinted in Bahá'í News, October 1990.
1991 "Ethnicity and the State: Constitutional Provisions in Some Pacific Island States", Ethnic Groups, pp83-105.
1991 "Developments: South Pacific", Public Law Review, 2:3 September, 208-9.
1991 "Susan Ford A Pictorial History of the Bahá'í Faith in South Africa, 1911 to 1989; Iran Muhájir The Blazing Years: 50th Anniversary of the Bahá'í
Faith in the Philippines; Dipchand Khianra Immortals; Barbara R. Simms Traces that remain: A pictorial History of the early days of the Bahá'í Faith among
the Japanese" (review article), Journal of Bahá'í Studies 3:3, 1990-91.
1991 "Bahíyyih Nakhjavání, Asking Questions: A Challenge to Fundamentalism" (review), Journal of Bahá'í Studies 4:2, 1991.
1991 "Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Pacific Islands", Current World Leaders, 34, April 1991.
1991 (review) "Brij Lal, Power and Prejudice: the Making of the Fiji Crisis", Australian Journal of Political Science, 26:1, March 1991, pp158-159.
1991 "Nationalism and Ethnic Conflict in the Pacific Islands", Current World Leaders, 34, April 1991, 283-296.
1991 "Church and State in Vanuatu 1945-1980: A 'Pacific' Contest for Power", South Pacific Journal of Mission Studies, 2:2, December 1991, 2-12, 26-28.
1992 (review) Alan Whittaker, (ed), West Papua: Plunder in Paradise, Journal of Southeast Asian Studies 23:1, 186-7.
1992 "Developments: Asia", Public Law Review 3:4, December 1992, pp.275-76.
1992 "The Advent of Divine Justice" (Review), Association for Bahá'í Studies, Bulletin, 37, December, p.6.
1992 "Australia rose to Crusade challenge", Herald of the South July-Sept, 42-3.
1993 and Guy Powles, "Developments: South Pacific", Public Law Review 4:2, June 1993, pp.124-128.
1993 and Sean Cooney, "Democracy and Constitutional Change in Asia", Asian Studies Review, 17:1, July 1993, pp.2-9.
1993 "Developments: Asia", Public Law Review 4:3, September 1993, pp.206-8.
1993 "Euphemia Baker", Australian Dictionary of Biography, vol 13: 1940-1980, A-De, Melbourne: Melbourne University Press.
1993 "Racial Unity: An Imperative for Social Progress" (review of Richard Thomas, Racial Unity: An imperative for Social Progress), Australian Bahá'í
Bulletin, May 1993, 10.
1993 "Australian Relations with the British Bahá'í Community", Associate (Newsletter of the Association for Bahá'í Studies English Speaking Europe),
9 July 1993, .2-5.
1994 "Developments: Asia", Public Law Review 5:1, March 1994, pp.68-70.
1994 "Developments: South Pacific", Public Law Review 5:2, June 1994, pp.135-136.
1994 "Developments: Asia", Public Law Review 5:3, September 1994, 211-213.
1994 "Problems of Representation in the Asia-Pacific Region", Legislative Studies 9:1, Spring, 7-16.
1994 "Developments: South Pacific", Public Law Review 5:4, December 1994, pp.285-287.
1994 "Australians for Reconciliation Study Circles", International Conflict Resolution Newsletter, 3, November 1994, pp1-2.
1995 "Developments: Asia", Public Law Review 6:2, June 1995, pp.168-171.
1995 "Developments: South Pacific", Public Law Review 6:3, September 1995, pp.263.
1995 "The Bahá'í Faith in Australia" 75 Years Remembered", Herald of the South 43, April-June, 22-32.
1995 "Asia-Pacific", (22 items contributed to) International Bibliography of Federalism, Queen's University, Canada.
1995 "Developments: Asia", Public Law Review 6:4, December 1995, pp.333-335.
1995 "Community Histories (review)", Bahá'í Studies Review, vol 1, 95-98.
1996 ÎPacific Bahá'í Communities: issues and prospectsâ, Bahá'í Studies Review, 6, 1-10.
1996 ÎDevelopments: South Pacificâ, Public Law Review 7:1, 1996, 57-58.
1996 & Wari Iamo, Studies in Governance and Politics in Papua New Guinea: Report on Governance Workshop: Policy Making and Implementation in
Papua New Guinea, National Research Institute, June 1996, 34pp.
1996 ÎDevelopments: Asiaâ, Public Law Review 7:3, 1996, 185-190.
1996 ãDevelopments: South Pacificä, Public Law Review 7:4, 1996, 241-243.
1996 ãReflections on The Philosophy of History: Nationalism and the Quest for Historical World Orderä, South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture,
vol 1, 26-37
1996 ãThe Rule of Law Papua New Guineaä, in Damien Robertshaw (ed), Melbourne Postgraduate Seminar Series 95: Cross Cultural Series, Environment Series,
University of Melbourne Postgraduate Association, 39-48.
1997 ãPayback: the Logic of Retribution in Melanesian Religion- Garry Trompfä - Book Review), Australian Religion Studies Review, 1:2, Spring 1997, 50-51.
1997 ãDevelopments: Asia (8) Public Law Review, 4, p279-80.
1998 ãDevelopments: South Pacificä (9) Public Law Review, 1, 69-75.
1997 ãDevelopments: Asiaä (9) Public Law Review, 2, 140-142.
1997 "Racial Unity: An Imperative For Social Progress (review)", Journal of Bahá'í Studies, 17:4, 88-90.
1998 "History of the BahÇ'ê Community in Canada (review)", Bahá'í Studies Review, vol 7, 104-106.
1998 ãPacific Islands (9) Public Law Review, 3, p216-219.
1998 ãCambodian Elections ö a LAWASIA observer reportsâ, LAWASIA Update, July-September, p6-7.
1998 & Seena Fazel, "100 Years of the Bahá'í Faith in Europe", Baháâí Studies Review 8, 35-44.
1998 ãFazel Mohamad Khan (in Memoriam)ä, The Baháâí World Vol XX: 1986-1992, Haifa: Baháâí World Centre, 839-843.
1998 ãHamuel Hoahania (in Memoriam)ä, The Baháâí World Vol XX: 1986-1992, Haifa: Baháâí World Centre, 843-844.
1998 ãThelma Perks (in Memoriam)ä, The Baháâí World Vol XX: 1986-1992, Haifa: Baháâí World Centre, 903-907.
1998 ãRose Hawthorne (in Memoriam)ä, The Baháâí World Vol XX: 1986-92, 914-916.
1999 ãThe Bahá'í Community of Randwick: A Survey of 75 Yearsä, Australian Bahá'í Studies
1999 ãDevelopments: Asiaä (9) Public Law Review, 4, 286-288.
1999 ãPacific Islands (10) Public Law Review 1, 86-90.
1999 ãCommittees and Conflict Resolutionä, ANZCCART News 12 (1), 1-3. (Australian and New Zealand Council for the Care of Animals in Research and
Training)
1999 Conference Report: Democracy and Deep-Rooted Conflictä, International Conflict Resolution Centre Newsletter, N0 14, p 4-6.
1999 ãDevelopments: Asiaä (10) Public Law Review, 2, 156-160.
1999 ãChallenges of contemporary governance in PNGä, Post Courier July 14th, p11.
1999 ãDevelopments: Pacific Islandsä (10) Public Law Review, 3, 231-236.
1999 ãDevelopments: Asiaä (10) Public Law Review, 4, 313-316.
2000 ãDevelopments: Pacific Islandsä (11) Public Law Review, 1, 75-78.
2000 ãIn Memoriam: James Heggieä, Bahá'í Studies Review
2000 ãAsia Pacific Constitutional Systems: The Legitimacy of States, Governance, and Globalismä, Graduate School of International Development, Nagoya
University, Discussion Paper No. 89, 13pp.
Forthcoming
- ÎPolitical and legal systemsâ in Encyclopaedia of the Pacific Islands, Canberra: Australian National University.
- ãDunn, Clara and Hydeä, Contributions to a Short Encyclopaedia of the Bahá'í Faith (Wilmette: Bahá'í Publishing Trust)
- "The Bahá'í Faith", in Philip Harris (ed) Encyclopaedia of Theosophy
- A Short History of the Bahá'í Faith in Hong Kong, Spiritual Assembly of the Bahá'ís of Hong Kong.
- ãConflict Resolution and the Bahá'í Faith (Australia and the South Pacific)ä in Steven Gonzales (ed), volume on conflict Resolution, Ottawa: Association for
Bahá'í Studies.
Dissertations
1990 Religion and Nation-State Formation in Post-War Melanesia: 1945 to Independence (PhD, Australian National University)
1984 The History of the Bahá'í Faith in Australia, 1920-1963, Honours Thesis, Department of History, University of Sydney.
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