Margaret Jolly

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Margaret Jolly
Margaret Anne Jolly (born 1949) at the CASS Professorial Lecture.png
At an ANU lecture in 2018
Born (1949-04-12) 12 April 1949 (age 76)
Sydney, Australia
OccupationAnthropologist
AwardsMember of the Order of Australia (2020)

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]

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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

References

  1. "Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Australia".
  2. "School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University".
  3. "Academy Fellows recognised with Australia Day Honours". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. 25 January 2020. Retrieved 4 May 2020.
  4. "ARC Laureate Fellows". Australian National University . 20 February 2015. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
  5. "ANU Press".
  6. "Researchers, Australian National University".
  7. "Jolly, Margaret". worldcat.org. Retrieved 22 August 2016.
  8. Stehle, Mark (25 January 2020). "Australia Day Honours 2020: Full list of recipients". Sydney Morning Herald . Nine Entertainment Co. Retrieved 25 January 2020.