Margaret Anne Jolly AM FASSA (born 12 April 1949), born in Sydney, Australia[1] is an historical anthropologist recognized as a world expert on gender in Oceania. She is professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific and Convenor of the Gender Institute at the Australian National University in Canberra.[2] Jolly is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.[3]
Career
From 2010 to 2015, Jolly held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, an award valued at $2.7M.[4] She has written extensively on gender in the Pacific,[5] on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.
Jolly has held a number of prestigious academic roles including Head of the Gender Relations Centre 1992-2009; Burns Distinguished Visiting Chair, History, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (1998); Visiting Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz (2002); Visiting Professor, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France (2009).[6] Her work is widely held in libraries.[7]
Honours
Jolly was made a Member of the Order of Australia in the 2020 Australia Day Honours for "significant service to education, particularly to gender and Pacific studies."[8]
Selected works
- Family and gender in the Pacific: Domestic contradictions and the colonial impact co-edited with Martha Macintyre
- Women of the Place, Kastom, Colonialism and Gender in Vanuatu (1994)
- Sites of Desire, Economies of Pleasure: Sexualities in Asia and the Pacific, co-edited with Lenore Manderson (1997)
- Maternities and Modernities: Colonial and Postcolonial Experiences in Asia and the Pacific, co-edited with Kalpana Ram (1998)
- Borders of Being: Citizenship, Fertility and Sexuality in Asia and the Pacific, co-edited with Kalpana Ram (2001)
- Birthing in the Pacific: Beyond Tradition and Modernity?, co-edited with Vicki Lukere (2001)
- Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire, Violence, co-edited with Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon (2009)
- Engendering Violence in Papua New Guinea co-edited with Christine Stewart and Carolyn Brewer (2012)
- Gender Violence and Human Rights: Seeking Justice in Fiji, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu co-edited with Aletta Biersack and Martha Macintyre
References
- ^ "Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Australia".
- ^ "School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University".
- ^ "Academy Fellows recognised with Australia Day Honours". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
- ^ "ARC Laureate Fellows". Australian National University. 20 February 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
- ^ "ANU Press".
- ^ "Researchers, Australian National University".
- ^ "Jolly, Margaret". worldcat.org. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
- ^ Stehle, Mark (25 January 2020). "Australia Day Honours 2020: Full list of recipients". Sydney Morning Herald. Nine Entertainment Co. Retrieved 25 January 2020.
External links
- Jolly, Margaret Anne (born 1949) at The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia
- 1949 births
- Living people
- Australian anthropologists
- Australian women anthropologists
- Academic staff of the Australian National University
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty
- University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
- Members of the Order of Australia
- Australian women academics
- Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia