Gender and sexuality in the Pacific and Asia; ethnography of the Pacific, especially Vanuatu; anthropology and colonial history; politics of tradition; indigeneity, diaspora and citizenship; feminist theory; photography and cinema; museums and material culture in Oceania.

Margaret Jolly was an ARC Laureate Fellow 2010-2016 and is a Professor in the School of Culture, History and Language in the College of Asia and the Pacific and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. She is an historical anthropologist who has written extensively on gender in the Pacific, on exploratory voyages and travel writing, missions and contemporary Christianity, maternity and sexuality, cinema and art.

Career highlights

Head Gender Relations Project/Centre 1992-2009; Burns Distinguished Visiting Chair, History, University of Hawai'i at Manoa (1998); Promotion to Professor, Election to Academy of Social Sciences in Australia (1999); Visiting Professor, University of California at Santa Cruz (2002); Visiting Professor, Centre National de Recherche Scientifique and École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France January-July 2009. ARC Laureate Fellow, 2010-2016.

Areti Metuamate (ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in OceaniaANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Supervisor and Chair

Kingship and Kinship in Tonga (under examination)

Karen Tu (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Co–Supervisor

The Transformation of Traditional Canoe Usage on Orchid Island and Yap (under examination)

Timothy Leach (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific), Co-supervisor

Sexuality and Sexual Rights in Papua New Guinea: Working with Positive People

Paul Mitchell (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific), Co–supervisor

Death Rituals, Gender and Rank in Malakula,Vanuatu

Jade Aikman-Dodds (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific), Co–supervisor

Terra in Our Mist

Mitiana Arbon (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Suoervisor and Chair

Oceanic Art and Value: the Case of Auction Houses

Miranda Scarr (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Supervisor and Chair

Gender and Climate Change in Fiji and Kiribati

Ton Otto (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor
The Politics of Tradition in Baluan Social Change and the Construction of the Past in a Manus Society  (awarded 1991, Professor, James Cook University, Cairns)

Anna Paini (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor
Boundaries of Difference: Geographical and Social Mobility by Lifuan Women  (awarded 1993, Professor, University of Verona, Italy)

Richard Eves (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor, from late 1993
Seating the Place: Magic and Embodiment on the Lelet Plateau, New Ireland
(Papua New Guinea)  (awarded 1994, Senior Fellow, State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project, ANU)

Lisa Law (ANU, Human Geography, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor
Dancing in Cebu: Mapping Bodies, Subjectivities and Spaces in an Era of HIV/AIDS 
(awarded 1996, Senior Lecturer, Geography, James Cook University Cairns)

Victoria Lukere (ANU, Pacific History, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor
Mothers of the Taukei: Fijian Women and ‘The Decrease of the Race’  (awarded 1997, Executive Editor, Journal of Pacific History)

Berenice Carrington (ANU, Women’s Studies, The Faculties, PhD) Advisor
(Supervisor, August 1994–February 1995)
Pekina: An Ethnography of Memory  (awarded 1997, Artist, Teacher and Community Consultant, Sydney)

Hiro Miyazaki (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Advisor
Artefacts of Truth  (awarded 1997, Assistant Professor, Cornell University)

Kathryn Sweet (ANU, Asian Studies, RSPAS, MA) Co-supervisor
Reinserting ‘Maem’, a Fragment of Thai History: White Women in Siam, 1860-1920 
(awarded 1996, Public servant in Department of Immigration and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra) 

Roberta James (ANU, Anthropology, The Faculties, MA) Supervisor and Chair
Spiralling Lives:  Women’s Experience and the Physics of Resistance among Witches of the Waikato  (awarded 1997, Consultant, Canberra)

Frances Reardon Finney (ANU, Anthropology, The Faculties, MA) Supervisor and Chair
‘I Thought it would be Heaven’: Migration, Gender, and Community amongst Overseas Tongans  (awarded 1999, Senior Officer in Department of Immigration and Indigenous Affairs, Canberra)

Susanne Kuehling (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Advisor
The Name of the Gift: Ethics of Exchange on Dobu Island  (awarded 1998, Lecturer, Canada)

Julia Byford (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair
Dealing with Death, Beginning with Birth: Women’s Health and Childbirth on Misima Island, Papua New Guinea  (awarded 1999, Independent consultant on gender in the Pacific)

Sarah Dunlop (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Advisor
Conquest and Change: Mongol Herding in Xilingol, Inner Mongolia  (awarded 2000, Senior Researcher, Central Land Council, Alice Springs)

Elizabeth Branigan (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor When Four Braids Come Together: Gender, Identity, Activism and Inequality in Vallur Village, Andhra Pradesh, India  (awarded 2002, Lecturer, Victoria University of Technology, Melbourne)

Kristina Jamieson (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair
In the Isle of the Beholder: Traversing Place, Exploring Representations and
Experiences of Cook Islands Tourism  (awarded 2002, Public Servant, Senior Officer in Department of Labour, Welllington., New Zealand) 

Gregory Rawlings (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair
‘Once there was a Garden, now there is a Swimming Pool’: Inequality, Labour and
Land in Pango, a Peri-Urban Village in Vanuatu  (awarded 2002, Senior Lecturer, Anthropology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand)

Katerina Teaiwa (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair
Visualizing te Kainga, Dancing te Kainga: History and Culture between Rabi,
Banaba and Beyond  (awarded 2002, Senior Lecturer and Pacific Studies Co-convenor, FCollege of Asia and the Pacific, ANU

Tim Curtis (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair
Talking about Place: Identities, Histories and Powers among the Na’hai Speakers
of Malakula (Vanuatu)  (awarded 2002, Director - Culture, Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO, Bangkok)

Michael Morgan (ANU, History, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor
Politik is Poison: The Politics of Memory among the Churches of Christ in Northern Vanuatu  (awarded 2003, Consultant, Canberra

John Patrick Taylor (ANU, Anthropology, Faculty of Arts, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Ways of the Place: History, Cosmology and Material Culture in North Pentecost, Vanuatu (awarded 2003, Lecturer, Anthropology, La Trobe University)

Ines Rittgasser [Yeshe Choekyi Lhamo] (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, PhD) Supervisor and Chair. Inventing the Buddha: The Glorification of Ascetic Masculinity in Taiwanese Buddhism (awarded 2004, Buddhist nun, Tibet)

Sabine Hess (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Person and Place on  Vanua Lava, Vanuatu (awarded 2006, Visiting Fellow, ANU and Germany)

Nicole George (ANU, International Relations, RSPAS, PhD) Co-supervisor Situating Agency: Gender Politics and Circumstance in Fiji (awarded 2006, Lecturer in International Relations, University of Queensland)

Larissa Sandy (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, PhD) Supervisor and Chair ”My Blood. Sweat and Tears”: Female Sex Workers in Cambodia – Victims, Vectors or Agents? (awarded July 2007, Post-Doctoral Fellow, Flinders University, Adelaide)

Ruth Saovana-Spriggs (ANU, Political and Social Change, RSPAS, PhD) Advisor/2008 Supervisor) Gender and Peace: Bougainvillean Women, Matriliny and the Peace Process (awarded December 2007, Researcher on linguistics project on Bougainville, Lecturer on Pacific Pidgins, College of Asia and the Pacific)

Sina Emde (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Gender, Race and Nation in Fiji: After the Coups (awarded July 2008, Postdoctoral Fellow, Free University of Berlin)

Markus Friedrich Pangerl (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Moving Lives - Routes and Routines of Contemporary Indo-Fijian Migration.(awarded July 2008, Senior Officer in German import-export company, Frankfurt)

Katherine Lepani (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair “In the process of knowing”: Making Sense of HIV and AIDS in the Trobriand Islands of Papua New Guinea. (awarded July 2008, Senior Research associate, ARC Laureate project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities, and Individualism in Oceania, ANU).

Ana Dragojlovic (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Beyond Bali: Extending Postcolonial Visions of Intimacy and Performance in the Contemporary Netherlands (awarded July 2008, Post Doctoral Fellow, Netherlands and Visiting Fellow, Anthropology, College of Asia and the Pacific)

Frances Steel (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair  Oceania Under Steam: Maritime Cultures, Colonial Histories, 1870s-1910s (awarded July 2008, Discovery Early Career Research Award, University of Wollongong)

Gregory Dvorak (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, RSPAS/Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Seeds from Afar, Fruit from the Reef: Imagining Home between the Coral and Concrete of Kwajalein (awarded July 2008,  Lecturer, Japan Society for Promotion of Science, University of Tokyo)

Nathan Boyle (ANU, Gender Relations Centre, RSPAS, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Accounting for Human Rights: Audit Cultures and Professionalism in Forum- Asia (awarded July 2009, Public Servant, Canberra)

Regina Knapp (ANU, Anthropology, RSPAS, PhD) Advisor Syncretism among the Unggai-Bena, Papua New Guinea Highlands (Awarded 2010, Researcher and filmmaker, Berlin.)

Christine Stewart (ANU, SCHL, College of Asia and the Pacific, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Pamuk na Poofta: Criminalizing Consensual Sex in Papua New Guinea (Awarded 2012, 

Jin-shiu [Jessie] Sung (ANU, SCHL, College of Asia and the Pacific, PhD) Supervisor and Chair Engendering Knowledge: Han Taiwanese Pregnancy Cultures in Rural Taiwan (Awarded 2012, Senior Researcher, Academia Sinica, Taiwan.)

Rebecca Monson (ANU, College of Law) Advisor Hu nao save tok? Women, men and land: negotiating property and authority in Solomon Islands (Awarded 2012, Senior Lecturer, College of Law, ANU.)

Marata Tamaira (Vice-Chancellor's Scholarship, ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania, ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Supervisor and Chair

Visual Sovereignty and Indigenous Countervisuality: Picturing Contemporary Kanaka Maoli Art Practice in Hawai'i. (Awarded July 2015. Lecturer, University of Hawai'i at Hilo)

Latu Latai (ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania, ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Supervisor and Chair

Covenant Keepers:  A History of Samoan (LMS) Missionary Wives in the Western Pacific, 1839-1979 (Awarded December 2016 Lecturer, Malua Theological College)

Kimberley Doyle (ANU, College of Arts and Social Sciences) Advisor

Chasing Rainbows? Australian Peacekeepers in the Pacific 1997-2006. (Awarded 2016)

Siobahn McDonnell (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Co-supervisor

My land, my life:  Property, power and identity in land transformaton in Vanuatu. (Awarded July 2016, Gender Institute Prize, Australian Anthropological Society Prize 2017, for best PHD thesis).

Research Fellow National Centre for Indigenous Studies and School of Culture, History and Language

Annie McCarthy (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Advisor 

Children’s Stories of Danger, Intervention and Hope in Delhi’s Slums.

Lecturer in Development Studies, University of Canberra

Salmah Eva-Lina Lawrence (ARC Laureate Project Engendering Persons, Transforming Things: Christianities, Commodities and Individualism in Oceania, ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific) Co-supervisor

Speaking for Ourselves: Kwato Perspectives on Matriliny and Missionisation 

Unconditional admission July 2018, Consultant for UN Women

Recent Honours Students

Miranda Scarr (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific)

Gender and Climate Change in Oceania, awarded First Class Honours, 2015

Mitiana Arbon (ANU, CHL, College of Asia and the Pacific)

Oceania Unbound: Pacific Art and the National Gallery of Australia, awarded First Class Honours, 2017.