Elsie Worthington Clews Parsons was an American anthropologist, sociologist, folklorist, and feminist who studied Native American tribes—such as the Tewa and Hopi—in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico. She helped found The New School. She was associate editor for The Journal of American Folklore (1918–1941), president of the American Folklore Society (1919–1920), president of the American Ethnological Society (1923–1925), and was elected the first female president of the American Anthropological Association (1941) right before her death.
Robyn Eckersley is a Professor and Head of Political Science in the School of Social and Political Sciences, University of Melbourne, Australia.
Judy Wajcman, is the Anthony Giddens Professor of Sociology at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She is the Principal Investigator of the Women in Data Science and AI project at The Alan Turing Institute. She is also a visiting professor at the Oxford Internet Institute. Her scholarly interests encompass the sociology of work, science and technology studies, gender theory, and organizational analysis. Her work has been translated into French, German, Greek, Italian, Korean, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Chinese and Spanish. Prior to joining the LSE in 2009, she was a Professor of Sociology in the Research School of Social Sciences at the Australian National University. She was the first woman to be appointed the Norman Laski Research Fellow (1978–80) at St. John's College, Cambridge. In 1997 she was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Rosita Forbes, née Joan Rosita Torr, was an English travel writer, novelist and explorer. In 1920–1921 she was the first European woman to visit the Kufra Oasis in Libya, in a period when this was closed to Westerners.
Jane Simpson is an Australian linguist and professor emerita at Australian National University.
Marie Olive Reay was an Australian anthropologist, known particularly for work in the New Guinea Highlands.
Melanie Nivison Oppenheimer, is an Australian historian, who specialises in the history of volunteering, and a former actress.
Margaret Anne Jolly, born in Sydney, Australia 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. Jolly is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Angela Gweneth Woollacott is an Australian historian who has contributed to the history of the British Empire and Australia. She has written many books and journal articles, as well as a series of Australian history textbooks, served on the editorial boards for Journal of Women's History, Journal of British Studies, and Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, and served on the international advisory board for Settler Colonial Studies. She is a past president of the Australian Historical Association.
Joy Damousi, is an Australian historian and Professor and Director of the Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences at Australian Catholic University. She was Professor of History in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne for most of her career, and retains a fractional appointment. She was the President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2017 to 2020.
Kim Rubenstein is an Australian legal scholar, lawyer and political candidate. She is a professor at the University of Canberra.
Ann Curthoys, is an Australian historian and academic.
Linda Helen Connor is an Australian anthropologist. She is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney.
Raelene Frances, is an Australian historian and academic at the Australian National University.
Philippa Marian Sawer is an Australian political scientist. She is a professor emeritus at the Australian National University (ANU).
Penelope Ann Russell, is an Australian social historian. She is Bicentennial Professor of Australian History at the University of Sydney.
Fiona Kerr Paisley is a Scottish-born Australian cultural historian at Griffith University. Her research and writing focuses on Australian Indigenous, feminist and transnational history.
Ann Margaret McGrath is an Australian historian and academic. As of 2023 she is the WK Hancock Chair of History at the Australian National University in Canberra.
Martha Macintyre is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. As of 2021, she is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne.
The đàn tre is a handmade string instrument created by Minh Tam Nguyen, a Vietnamese refugee. Only two examples of the instrument currently exist, with the location of one being unknown.
