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About Margaret Jolly
- Margaret Anne Jolly (born 12 April 1949), 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.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, 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).
- Her work is widely held in libraries.
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