Vera Mackie (born 1955) is an Australian academic who has specialised in Japanese feminism and gender history. As of 2021 she is Emeritus Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of Wollongong.

Early life and education

Mackie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1955. In 1964 she moved to Victoria, Australia with her family, where she completed her secondary education at

Mentone Girls' Grammar School , motto_translation = Nothing truer than Truth , established = 1899 , type = Independent, single-sex, day school , denomination = Anglican , slogan = Mentone Girls. Remar ...

. She completed a BA (Hons) and MA (1985) at Monash University, before receiving a PhD (1994) from the University of Adelaide.

Career

From 1998 to 2004 Mackie was Foundation Professor of Japanese Studies at

Curtin University Curtin University, formerly known as Curtin University of Technology and Western Australian Institute of Technology (WAIT), is an Australian public research university based in Bentley, Perth, Western Australia. It is named after John Curtin, ...

. She then was appointed

Australian Research Council The Australian Research Council (ARC) is the primary non-medical research funding agency of the Australian Government, distributing more than in grants each year. The Council was established by the ''Australian Research Council Act 2001'', ...

(ARC) Australian Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2004 to 2010. She moved to the University of Wollongong, initially as ARC Future Fellow (2010–2014), then moved into the position of Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies in 2014. She is now Emeritus Professor Mackie served on the board of the International Federation for Research in Women's History from 2015 to 2020. She was co-convener of the Australian Women's History Network from 2013 to 2016. She is a member of the editorial board of ''Lilith: A Feminist History Journal'', published by the Australian Women's History Network. Commissioning Editor, ''Japan Focus: The Asia-Pacific Journal'', Commissioning Editor, ''VIDA: Blog of the Australian Women's History Network''. She delivered the 2021

A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture The A.R. Davis Memorial Lecture is held annually in commemoration of A.R. Davis, the Professor of Oriental Studies at the University of Sydney and a key figure in post-war Asian Studies in Australia. It is organised by the Australian Society for ...

on "Asia in Australia: History on the Streets".

Awards and recognition

Mackie was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2004 and Fellow of the

Royal Society of New South Wales The Royal Society of New South Wales is a learned society based in Sydney, Australia. The Governor of New South Wales is the vice-regal patron of the Society. The Society was established as the Philosophical Society of Australasia on 27 June ...

in 2018. She won the 2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature. She was awarded the University of Wollongon
Vice Chancellor's Award
for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2018.

Works

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References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Mackie, Vera 1955 births Living people Australian women historians Scottish emigrants to Australia Monash University alumni University of Adelaide alumni Academic staff of Curtin University Academic staff of the University of Melbourne Academic staff of the University of Wollongong People from Glasgow People educated at Mentone Girls' Grammar School Australian feminists