Margaret Jolly
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Margaret Anne Jolly {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FASSA}} (born 12 April 1949), born in Sydney, Australia{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0606b.htm|title=Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Australia|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-people/details/margaret-jolly|title=School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} Jolly is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.{{Cite web|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/news/academy-fellows-recognised-with-australia-day-honours/ |title= Academy Fellows recognised with Australia Day Honours |date=25 January 2020 |publisher=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |access-date=4 May 2020 }}
Career
From 2010 to 2015, Jolly held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, an award valued at $2.7M.{{cite news |url=http://chl-old.anu.edu.au/school/laureate.php |title=ARC Laureate Fellows |date=20 February 2015 |work=Australian National University |access-date=3 May 2020 }} She has written extensively on gender in the Pacific,{{Cite web|url=http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/authors-editors/margaret-jolly|title=ANU Press|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} 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).{{Cite web|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/jolly-ma|title=Researchers, Australian National University|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}} Her work is widely held in libraries.{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2008025978/ |title=Jolly, Margaret |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=22 August 2016}}
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."{{cite news |last1=Stehle |first1=Mark |title=Australia Day Honours 2020: Full list of recipients |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-day-honours-2020-full-list-of-recipients-20200125-p53uqy.html |accessdate=25 January 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=25 January 2020}}
Selected works
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- 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
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External links
- {{Australian Women and Leadership|WLE0606b|Jolly, Margaret Anne (born 1949)}}
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Category:Australian anthropologists
Category:Australian women anthropologists
Category:Academic staff of the Australian National University
Category:University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty
Category:University of California, Santa Cruz faculty
Category:Members of the Order of Australia
Category:Australian women academics
Category:Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia