Margaret Jolly

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]

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 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).[6] Her work is widely held in libraries.[7]

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]

References
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  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.
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  6. "Researchers, Australian National University".
  7. "Jolly, Margaret". worldcat.org. Retrieved August 22, 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.
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