{{Short description|Australian anthropologist}} {{Use Australian English|date=April 2025}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | name = Margaret Jolly | image = Margaret Anne Jolly (born 1949) at the CASS Professorial Lecture.png | alt = | caption = At an ANU lecture in 2018 | birth_name = | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1949|4|12|df=yes}} | birth_place = Sydney, Australia | death_date = | death_place = | burial_place = | occupation = Anthropologist | awards = Member of the Order of Australia (2020) | spouse = | children = | education = | signature = | party = }} '''Margaret Anne Jolly''' {{post-nominals|country=AUS|AM|FASSA}} (born 12 April 1949), born in Sydney, Australia<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.womenaustralia.info/leaders/biogs/WLE0606b.htm|title=Encyclopedia of Women & Leadership in Australia|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> 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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://chl.anu.edu.au/our-people/details/margaret-jolly|title=School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> Jolly is also a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://socialsciences.org.au/news/academy-fellows-recognised-with-australia-day-honours/ |title= Academy Fellows recognised with Australia Day Honours |date=25 January 2020 |publisher=Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia |access-date=4 May 2020 }}</ref>
==Career== From 2010 to 2015, Jolly held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship, an award valued at $2.7M.<ref name=laureate>{{cite news |url=http://chl-old.anu.edu.au/school/laureate.php |title=ARC Laureate Fellows |date=20 February 2015 |work=Australian National University |access-date=3 May 2020 }}</ref> She has written extensively on gender in the Pacific,<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://press.anu.edu.au/publications/authors-editors/margaret-jolly|title=ANU Press|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> 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 Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (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).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://researchers.anu.edu.au/researchers/jolly-ma|title=Researchers, Australian National University|last=|first=|date=|website=|publisher=|access-date=}}</ref> Her work is widely held in libraries.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-nb2008025978/ |title=Jolly, Margaret |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=22 August 2016}}</ref>
==Honours== 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."<ref name="2020 AO">{{cite news |last1=Stehle |first1=Mark |title=Australia Day Honours 2020: Full list of recipients |url=https://www.smh.com.au/national/australia-day-honours-2020-full-list-of-recipients-20200125-p53uqy.html |accessdate=25 January 2020 |work=Sydney Morning Herald |publisher=Nine Entertainment Co |date=25 January 2020}}</ref>
==Selected works== {{Scholia}} *''Family and gender in the Pacific: Domestic contradictions and the colonial impact'' co-edited with Martha Macintyre *''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 (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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==External links== *{{Australian Women and Leadership|WLE0606b|Jolly, Margaret Anne (born 1949)}}
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