Margaret Anne Jolly (born 12 April 1949), born in Sydney, Australia is an historical

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recognized as a world expert on gender in

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. She is professor in the College of Asia and the Pacific and

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of the Gender Institute at the

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. Jolly is also a Fellow of the

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Career

From 2010 to 2015, Jolly held an

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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,

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(1998); Visiting Professor,

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(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.

Honours

Jolly was made a Member of the

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in the 2020

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Honours for "significant service to education, particularly to gender and Pacific studies."

Selected works

*''Family and gender in the Pacific: Domestic contradictions and the colonial impact'' co-edited with

Martha Macintyre Martha Macintyre (born 1945) is an Australian anthropologist and historian whose work has focused on studying social change in Papua New Guinea and Melanesia. As of 2021, she is an honorary professor at the University of Melbourne. Born in Me ...

*''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 Darrell T. Tryon (20 July 1942 – 15 May 2013) was a New Zealand-born linguist, academic, and specialist in Austronesian languages. Specifically, Tryon specialised in the study of the languages of the Pacific Islands, particularly Vanuatu, th ...

(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

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jolly, Margaret 1949 births Living people Australian anthropologists Australian women anthropologists Academic staff of the Australian National University University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa faculty University of California, Santa Cruz faculty Members of the Order of Australia Australian women academics Fellows of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia