Margaret Jolly

Margaret Anne Jolly (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]

From 2010 to 2015, Jolly held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, an award valued at $2.7M. She has written extensively on gender in the Pacific,[4] 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 Hawaii at Manoa (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).[5] Her work is widely held in libraries.[6]

References

  1. ↑ "Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Australia".
  2. ↑ "School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University".
  3. ↑ "Academy of Social Sciences in Australia".
  4. ↑ "ANU Press".
  5. ↑ "Researchers, Australian National University".
  6. ↑ "Jolly, Margaret". worldcat.org. Retrieved August 22, 2016.
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