Lenore Manderson

{{Short description|Australian medical anthropologist (born 1951)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2015}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2015}} {{Infobox scientist | honorific_prefix = | name = Lenore Manderson | honorific_suffix = {{post-nominals|country=AUS|size=100%|AM}} | native_name = | native_name_lang = | image =  | image_size = | alt = | caption = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1951|06|21|df=yes}} | birth_place = Melbourne, Australia | death_date =  | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | resting_place_coordinates =  | other_names = | fields = Medical anthropology | workplaces = Brown University<br />University of the Witwatersrand | patrons = | education = B.A.Asian Studies (Hons 1) (1973)<br />Ph.D. (1978) | alma_mater = Australian National University | thesis_title =  | thesis_url =  | thesis_year =  | doctoral_advisor =  | academic_advisors = | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | known_for = | influences = | influenced = | awards = {{plainlist | style = white-space: nowrap; | *Fellow (ASSA) (1995) *Federation Fellowship, ARC (2002) *Rockefeller Bellagio Resident (2003) *Research resident, NLM, NIH (2003) *Fellow (SFAA, USA) (2002) *Fellow (WAAS) (2004) *MASA Mentor Award, (AAA), (SMA) (2007) *Hillel Friedland Senior Fellow, Wits Uni (2008) *Member of the Order of Australia (2020) *Bronislaw Malinowski Award (2022) }} | spouse = Pat Galvin | children = 2, including Tobias Manderson-Galvin | signature =  | signature_alt = | website = {{url|www.lenoremanderson.com}} | footnotes = }}

'''Lenore Hilda Manderson''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM}} (born 21 June 1951) is an Australian medical anthropologist. She is professor of medical anthropology in the Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, and the School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, at Monash University, Australia.

== Early life == Manderson was born in Melbourne, Victoria. She graduated from the Australian National University with a BA in Asian studies (Hons) and then a PhD.

==Career==

Manderson was professor of tropical health (University of Queensland, 1988–1998). In recognition of her research, she was made a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences in 1995. In 1999 she became professor of women's health (University of Melbourne) and remained in this position until 2005. She was president of the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society 2001–2003.

She was awarded an inaugural Australian Research Council Federation Fellowship in 2001, and took this up at Melbourne and continued with this work at Monash University when she moved there in 2005.

Manderson supervised to completion about 110 graduate students and mentored other trainees, research interns and colleagues in Australia and overseas; in recognition of this she was awarded the American Anthropological Association, Medical Anthropology Students’ Association Mentor Award in 2007.

Manderson's research concerns anthropology, social history and public health. She is a specialist in inequality, social exclusion and marginality,<ref>Pohlman, A. (2004) [http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:71505 Review of Lenore Manderson and Linda Rae Bennett (eds), Violence Against Women in Asian Societies (London and New York: Routledge Curzon, 2003)]. Asian Studies Review, 28 3: 343-344. via University of Queensland website</ref> the social determinants of infectious and chronic disease,<ref name="Jones2004">{{cite book|author=Margaret Jones|title=Health Policy in Britain's Model Colony: Ceylon, 1900-1948|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gnbcmHrFF7MC&pg=PA52|year=2004|publisher=Orient Blackswan|isbn=978-81-250-2759-1|pages=52–}}</ref> gender and sexuality, immigration, ethnicity and inequality, in Australia, Southeast and East Asia (including Malaysia, China, Thailand, the Philippines and Japan), South Africa and Ghana, and most recently in the Solomon Islands.

In 2010 Manderson and fellow researcher Carolyn Smith-Morris edited the book ''Chronic Conditions, Fluid States: Chronicity and the Anthropology of Illness''<ref>{{citation|url=http://somatosphere.net/2011/06/review-essay-manderson-smith-morris.html|title=Review Essay: Manderson & Smith-Morris' Chronic Conditions, Fluid States|first=Matthew|last=Wolf-Meyer|date=28 June 2011}}</ref> She was the editor of the 2011 book ''Surface Tensions: Surgery, Bodily Boundaries and the Social Self'', as well as ''Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health'' in the same year.<ref>{{citation|url=http://soc.sagepub.com/content/47/5/1041.extract|title=Book Review: Lenore Manderson (ed.), Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health|first=María|last=González Aguado|date=2012}}</ref><ref>{{citation|url=http://www.gjss.org/sites/default/files/issues/chapters/bookreviews/Journal-10-01--07-HutchinsonGrondin.pdf|title=Lenore Manderson, ed. 2012. Technologies of Sexuality, Identity and Sexual Health. London and New York: Routledge.|first=Michelle|last=Hutchinson Grondin|date=February 2013|journal=Graduate Journal of Social Sciences|volume=10|issue=1}}</ref>

Manderson was chairperson of the program committee and a member of the board of trustees of the World Academy of Art and Science 2010–2011,

In 2012 she co-edited the book ''Flows of Faith: Religious Reach and Community in Asia and the Pacific '' with Wendy Smith and Matt Tomlinson, and ''Reframing Disability and Quality of Life: A Global Perspective'' with Narelle Warren.

==Honours== She was made a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of Australia in 1995 and the World Academy of Art and Science in 2004. She is an honorary professor at University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, and Khon Kaen University, Thailand.

In 2014 she is a member of the steering committee for a project of the Academy of Science of Australia on population, equity, climate change and sustainability. She was a member of the Scientific Advisory Committee for Stewardship on Research on Infectious Disease of Poverty (SAC-STE), WHO/TDR (Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases) (2008-2011), and is a member of the TDR scientific and technical advisory committee from January 2012. She is editor of the international journal ''Medical Anthropology'' (2010–present).

In the 2020 Australia Day Honours, Manderson was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Professor Lenore Hilda MANDERSON |url=https://honours.pmc.gov.au/honours/awards/2005901 |access-date=2024-10-12 |website=Australian Honours Search Facility}}</ref>

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== External links == *{{google scholar id|DZ3P2ZMAAAAJ}}

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