Michael Rose

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I am an anthropologist with a PhD from the Australian National University (ANU), awarded in 2017. Prior to that I worked various jobs in policy, agriculture, international 'development' and education throughout Eurasia and Australia, as well as spending periods on the dole, in the precariat, and travelling.

From 2019 to 2022 I was a research fellow at the ANU focused on labour migration to Australia, the PALM scheme in particular. From July 2022 to July 2024 I was in a fixed term position as a research associate at the University of Adelaide (UoA), seeking to better understand, and map, statecraft in the Pacific.

I am presently still at the UoA, lecturing in 'development' studies, as well as working as a consultant anthropologist focused mostly on Southeast Asia and indigenous cultural heritage in Australia.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Adjunct lecturer, anthopology, The University of Adelaide
  • 2019–2022
    Research fellow, The Australian National University

Education

  • 2017 
    The Australian National University, PhD in Anthropology
  • 2011 
    University of Sydney, Master of Peace and Conflict Studies
  • 2002 
    The University of Melbourne, Bachelor or Arts, etc

Publications

  • 2025
    Wallis, J., McNeill, H., Rose, M. and Tidwell, A. 2025, 'Chapter 1 – Understanding and analysing statecraft in the Pacific Islands', in Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness. Routledge, 3-28.,
  • 2025
    Wallis, J., Hanich, Q., Rose, M. and Tidwell, A. 2025, 'Chapter 5 – Defence diplomacy', in Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness. Routledge, 79-97.,
  • 2025
    Wallis, J., McNeill, H., Rose, M. and Tidwell, A. (eds.) 2025, Power and Influence in the Pacific Islands: Understanding Statecraftiness. Routledge Advances in International Relations and Global Politics. Routledge.,
  • 2024
    Wu, A; Vamos G; and Rose, M. 2024, ‘Sustaining Timorese seasonal workers local support in rural Australia through church participation’, Geographical Research,
  • 2023
    Rose, M. 2023, ‘The frente ekonomika (economic front). Timorese perspectives on seasonal work in Australia’, K. Silva, L Palmer and T Amal (eds), in Economic Ecologies in Timor-Leste, Leiden University Press ,
  • 2023
    Rose M. 2023, ‘The transnational village in Timor-Leste’, The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 19(5), 412–431,
  • 2023
    Wallis J, McNeill H, Rose M, and Tidwell A, 2023, Statecraftiness: the need for responsive rather than reactive statecraft in the Pacific Islands, Adelaide Papers on Pacific Security, Adelaide: University of Adelaide,
  • 2022
    Rose, M. 2022, ‘Global labour, local frameworks: Timor-Leste and the Seasonal Worker Program’, Asia Pacific Policy Studies, 9 (2) ,
  • 2021
    Lahiri-Dutt, K; Crawford, E; Ratcliffe, J; Rose M. 2021. ‘Resource politics in Mongolia: Large and small-scale mines in collision’, Resources Policy, 73 ,
  • 2020
    Rose M. 2020. ‘Indigenous spirits and global aspirations in. Southeast Asian Borderland’ Amsterdam University Press. ,
  • 2020
    Rose, M. 2020, ‘Returning the rock and protecting the game: Austronesian Custom and environmental governance in Timor-Leste’, Oceania, 90 (1), 55-69 ,
  • 2018
    Rose, M. 2018. ‘Adat, Adaptabilty and Uab Natoni (ritual speech) among the Meto of Oecussi,’ The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 19 (4), 450-466 ,
  • 2017
    Rose, M. 2017. ‘Development’, resistance and the geographies of affect in Oecussi, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography. 36 (2), 201-215.,
  • 2017
    Rose, M. 2017. ‘The book of Dan. The door in the tree. Emergent Frameworks for Faith and Healing among the Meto of Timor-Leste. Oceania, 87 (2), 298-316. ,
  • 2016
    Rose, M. 2016. ‘ZEESM: Destructive ‘Development’ in Timor’s Special Economic Zone’, ANU, Society State and Governance in Melanesia, 2016/4 ,
  • 2016
    Rose, M. 2016. ‘The assimilation of a Catholic priest among the Meto of Oecussi’ The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology, 17 (1), 66-82 ,

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