Margaret Jolly

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Margaret Anne Jolly, AM FASSA, born 12 April 1949 in Sydney, is an Australian anthropologist who is an expert on gender in Oceania. She is a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra and leads the Gender Institute there. She is a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. From 2010 to 2015 she held an Australian Research Council Laureate Fellowship worth $2.7 million. Jolly has written widely about gender in the Pacific, travel writing, Christian missions, maternity and sexuality, and cinema and art. She led the Gender Relations Centre from 1992 to 2009 and held visiting roles at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (Burns Distinguished Visiting Chair in History, 1998), UC Santa Cruz (2002), and in France (CNRS and EHESS, 2009). Her work is widely held in libraries. In 2020 she was made a Member of the Order of Australia for significant service to education, especially in gender and Pacific studies.