Graduate Research in Gender, Sexuality and Culture - Staff

GENERAL

Below is a list of prospective supervisors conducting research on gender across the university, organised according to their primary research interests. Note that some staff appear under more than one heading. Further details on each staff member listed can be obtained from the web page of the Centre or School in which s/he is located.

ANTHROPOLOGY AND SOCIOLOGY

Dr Rachel Bloul (Rachel.Bloul@anu.edu.au)
Sociology
Faculty of Social Sciences
Gender; Islam in the West; interethnic and interracial relations; cultural politics in global/local relations; comparative moralities/ethical imaginations in the contemporary world.

Dr Richard Eves (Richard.Eves@anu.edu.au)
Australian Research Council QEII Fellow, Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Melanesian ethnography, especially Papua New Guinea; nineteenth century anthropological and racial thought; colonialism in the Pacific; theories of the body; gender (especially masculinity), sexuality and HIV/AIDS in the Pacific.

Dr Christine Helliwell (Christine.Helliwell@anu.edu.au)
Anthropology
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Faculty of Arts.
Southeast Asia; social theory; gender; personhood and its relationship to different forms of sociality and identity; discourses of "development".

Dr Tamara Jacka (Tamara.jacka@anu.edu.au)
Graduate Studies Convenor, Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Fellow
Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender relations and social change in contemporary China, women's work and gender divisions of labour; women in rural-urban migration, the politics and epistemologies of cross-cultural research, approaches to gender and development.

Professor Margaret Jolly (gender@anu.edu.au, margaret.jolly@anu.edu.au)
Professor/Head
Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and sexuality in the Pacific and Asia; gender in colonial history and ethnography of the Pacific, especially Vanuatu; indigineity, diaspora and citizenship; feminist theory; gender in photography and cinema.

Dr Frank Lewins (Frank.Lewins@anu.edu.au)
Reader in Sociology
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Transsexualism; the relationship between sex, gender and sexuality.

Dr Vicki Luker (Vicki.Luker@anu.edu.au)
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and sexuality, especially in relation to historical and cultural perspectives on health and medicine in the Pacific and more generally.

Dr Kathryn Robinson (Kathryn.Robinson@anu.edu.au)
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian studies
Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; Islam; traditional architecture; sexuality and reproduction; marriage migration; Australian-Asian relations.

Judy Wajcman (Judy.Wajcman@anu.edu.au)
Professor of Sociology
Demography and Sociology Program
Research School of Social Sciences
Sociology of work and employment; social shaping of technology; gender and technology.

ART, LITERATURE, MEDIA AND POPULAR CULTURE

Piera Carroli (Piera.Carroli@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer/Convenor of Italian
School of Language Studies
Italian women's literature; the role of literature in language learning and teaching.

Professor Margaret Jolly (gender@anu.edu.au, margaret.jolly@anu.edu.au)
Professor/Head
Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and sexuality in the Pacific and Asia; gender in colonial history and ethnography of the Pacific, especially Vanuatu; indigineity, diaspora and citizenship; feminist theory; gender in photography and cinema.

Helen Keane (Helen.Keane@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
School of Humanities
Cultural studies of health and medicine, especially related to drugs, substance use and addiction; chronic illness, reproduction; self-help and popular psychology; feminist theory; theories of the body; and science and technology studies, especially related to drugs and biomedical technology.

Rosanne Kennedy (Rosanne.Kennedy@anu.edu.au)
Head/Senior Lecturer
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
School of the Humanities
Trauma and memory studies, especially in relation to the Holocaust and Stolen Generations; cultural studies; theories of representation and culture; feminist theory, nineteenth and twentieth century fiction in English; law and literature.

Dr. Gaik Cheng Khoo (gaikcheng.khoo@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
School of Humanities
Independent filmmaking and national cinemas in Southeast Asia, specifically Malaysia; Southeast Asian literature; space/race and cosmopolitanism; gender and sexuality; race/ethnicity/racialisation; Malaysian and Singapore cultural studies.

Dr Jacqueline Lo (Jacqueline.Lo@anu.edu.au)
English
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
Asian-Australian cultural politics; postcolonial theory; diaspora theory; cross-cultural Asian-Australian theatre; performing gender and race; history of women's theatre in Southeast Asia; postcolonial Singaporean and Malaysian culture and politics.

Gillian Russell (Gillian.Russell@anu.edu.au)
Senior Lecturer in English
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
History of gender and sexuality with reference to 18th century Britain, particularly theatre, fashion, histories of the public sphere, sociability, women and writing, literature and film.

Carolyn Strange (carolyn.strange@anu.edu.au )
Graduate Director
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
Canadian, Australian and U.S. gender history (19th and 20thC's); crime, deviance and regulation; interpersonal and state-sanctioned violence; feminist criminology; socio-legal studies.

ASIA AND THE PACIFIC

Bronwen Douglas (Bronwen.Douglas@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Christianity, gender and governance in Melanesia; Western secular encounters with Melanesian Christianity; science, race and indigenous presence in 18th and 19th century voyage art and texts; colonial history and gender relations.

Louise Edwards (Louise.Edwards@anu.edu.au)
Reader
China and Korea Centre
Faculty of Asian Studies
Gender in Qing and twentieth century China; women's engagement with politics in China.

Dr Richard Eves (Richard.Eves@anu.edu.au)
Australian Research Council QEII Fellow, Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Melanesian ethnography, especially Papua New Guinea; nineteenth century anthropological and racial thought; colonialism in the Pacific; theories of the body; gender (especially masculinity), sexuality and HIV/AIDS in the Pacific.

Katherine Gibson (Katherine.Gibson@anu.edu.au)
Professor and Head of Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Postructuralist feminist critiques and reformulations of economic and geographic theory; diverse economies and alternative regional economic development in the Asia-Pacific region (PNG, Philippines, Indonesia), Australia and the US; international contract migration; and community economic activism in the Asia-Pacific region.

Dr Christine Helliwell (Christine.Helliwell@anu.edu.au)
Anthropology
School of Archaeology and Anthropology
Faculty of Arts.
Anthropological critique of western (including feminist) gender categories; feminist theory; rape and sexual violence; non-western gender/sex constructions, especially in Asia.

Virginia Hooker (Virginia.Hooker@anu.edu.au)
Professor of Indonesian
Faculty of Asian Studies
Women in Indonesia and Malaysia; women and Islam in Indonesia and Malaysia.

Terence Hull (Terry.Hull@anu.edu.au)
Professor
Demography and Sociology Program
Research School of Social Sciences
and
John C. Caldwell
Professor of Population
Health and Development
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health.
Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia; fertility trends in Indonesia and Timor Leste; politics of family planning in Indonesia; decentralization in Indonesia; population policy in Cambodia; sex ratios at birth in China; abortion related deaths in Australia.

Tamara Jacka (Tamara.Jacka@anu.edu.au)
Graduate Studies Convenor, Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Fellow
Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender relations and social change in contemporary China, women's work and gender divisions of labour; women in rural-urban migration, the politics and epistemologies of cross-cultural research, approaches to gender and development.

Peter Jackson (Peter.Jackson@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
Division of Pacific and Asian History
Research School of Pacific and Asian History
Thai cultural history; history of sexuality and sexual cultures; Buddhism and religious studies.

Margaret Jolly (Margaret.Jolly@anu.edu.au)
Professor/Head
Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and sexuality in the Pacific and Asia; gender in colonial history and ethnography of the Pacific, especially Vanuatu; indigineity, diaspora and citizenship; feminist theory; gender in photography and cinema.

Dr. Gaik Cheng Khoo (gaikcheng.khoo@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
School of Humanities
Independent filmmaking and national cinemas in Southeast Asia, specifically Malaysia; Southeast Asian literature; space/race and cosmopolitanism; gender and sexuality; race/ethnicity/racialisation; Malaysian and Singapore cultural studies.

Dr Jacqueline Lo (Jacqueline.Lo@anu.edu.au)
English
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
Asian-Australian cultural politics; postcolonial theory; diaspora theory; cross-cultural Asian-Australian theatre; performing gender and race; history of women's theatre in Southeast Asia; postcolonial Singaporean and Malaysian culture and politics.

Dr Vicki Luker (Vicki.Luker@anu.edu.au)
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and sexuality, especially in relation to historical and cultural perspectives on health and medicine in the Pacific and more generally.

Deirdre McKay (Deirdre.Mckay@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and migration; performative femininity; gender and ecological management; Philippines.

Dr Kathryn Robinson (Kathryn.Robinson@anu.edu.au)
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian studies
Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; Islam; traditional architecture; sexuality and reproduction; marriage migration; Australian-Asian relations.

Kenneth Wells (Kenneth.Wells@anu.edu.au)
Professor in Korean History
Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
Faculty of Asian Studies and Division of History
Research School of Pacific and Asian History History, language, and literature of North and South Korea.

DEMOGRAPHY AND HEALTH

Cathy Banwell (Cathy.Banwell@anu.edu.au)
Research Fellow
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Women, consumption and health; community studies.

Dorothy Broom (Dorothy.Broom@anu.edu.au)
Senior Fellow
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health
Gender, health and weight, particularly chronic disease.

Terence Hull (Terry.Hull@anu.edu.au)
Professor
Demography and Sociology Program
Research School of Social Sciences
and
John C. Caldwell
Professor of Population
Health and Development
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health.
Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia; fertility trends in Indonesia and Timor Leste; politics of family planning in Indonesia; decentralization in Indonesia; population policy in Cambodia; sex ratios at birth in China; abortion related deaths in Australia.

Helen Keane (Helen.Keane@anu.edu.au)
Gender, Sexuality and Culture
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts
Cultural studies of health and medicine, especially related to drugs, substance use and addiction, chronic illness, reproduction, self-help and popular psychology; feminist theory; theories of the body; and science and technology studies, especially related to drugs and biomedical technology.

Dr Vicki Luker (Vicki.Luker@anu.edu.au)
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project,
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and sexuality, especially in relation to historical and cultural perspectives on health and medicine in the Pacific and more generally.

Dr Iwu Utomo (Iwu.Utomo@anu.edu.au)
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population
Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, demographic and health related issues in Timor Leste, young people reproductive health in Indonesia, women's health in Indonesia, gender and women's empowerment in Indonesia.

DEVELOPMENT STUDIES

Katherine Gibson (Katherine.Gibson@anu.edu.au)
Professor and Head of Human Geography
Department of Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Postructuralist feminist critiques and reformulations of economic and geographic theory; diverse economies and alternative regional economic development in the Asia-Pacific region (PNG, Philippines, Indonesia), Australia and the US; international contract migration; and community economic activism in the Asia-Pacific region.

Terence Hull (Terry.Hull@anu.edu.au)
Professor
Demography and Sociology Program
Research School of Social Sciences
and
John C. Caldwell
Professor of Population
Health and Development
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health.
Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia; fertility trends in Indonesia and Timor Leste; politics of family planning in Indonesia; decentralization in Indonesia; population policy in Cambodia; sex ratios at birth in China; abortion related deaths in Australia.

Tamara Jacka (Tamara.Jacka@anu.edu.au)
Graduate Studies Convenor, Gender, Sexuality and Culture
Fellow
Gender Relations Centre
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender relations and social change in contemporary China, women's work and gender divisions of labour; women in rural-urban migration, the politics and epistemologies of cross-cultural research, approaches to gender and development.

Dr Patrick Kilby (Patrick.Kilby@anu.edu.au)
Coordinator
Master of Applied Anthropology and Participatory Development Program
Interests are NGOs in both developed and developing countries; empowerment and marginalisation; gender; and managing development activities. He has twenty years experience with development NGOs and his field research has been with NGOs working with poor women in India.

Dr Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt (kuntala@coombs.anu.edu.au )
Research Fellow
Resource Management in Asia Pacific Program
Gender and development, mining and gender, water and gender, self-help groups and rural micro-finance, South Asia.

Dr Kathryn Robinson (Kathryn.Robinson@anu.edu.au)
Department of Anthropology
Research School of Pacific and Asian studies
Indonesia and Southeast Asia; development; gender; Islam; traditional architecture; sexuality and reproduction; marriage migration; Australian-Asian relations.

Dr Iwu Utomo (Iwu.Utomo@anu.edu.au)
Postdoctoral Fellow
National Centre for Epidemiology and Population
Gender and sexuality in Southeast Asia, demographic and health related issues in Timor Leste, young people reproductive health in Indonesia, women's health in Indonesia, gender and women's empowerment in Indonesia.

ECONOMICS

Deborah Mitchell (Deborah.Mitchell@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
Economics Program
Research School of Social Sciences
Australian social policy; Australian families and gendered dimensions of the life course; women, gender and institutions; labour market transformations; gendering human capital theory; social and labour market policies.

ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES

Deborah Rose (Deborah.Rose@anu.edu.au)
Senior Fellow
Centre for Resource and Environment Studies
Gender/ecology/philosophy.

HISTORY

Ann Curthoys (Ann.Curthoys@anu.edu.au)
Professor in History
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
History of women's liberation in Australia; gendered approaches to Australian history; historical writing; Aboriginal protest history.

Bronwen Douglas (Bronwen.Douglas@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
State, Society and Governance in Melanesia Project
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Christianity, gender and governance in Melanesia; Western secular encounters with Melanesian Christianity; science, race and indigenous presence in 18th and 19th century voyage art and texts; colonial history and gender relations.

Ann McGrath (Ann.Mcgrath@anu.edu.au)
Professor
History Program
Research School of Social Sciences
Gender and colonialism; Australian indigenous history; comparative and trans-national history of frontiers in Australia and North America; birth, marriage and intermarriage; law, justice and history; museums, museology and public history; art and visual evidence in history.

Desley Deacon (Desley.Deacon@anu.edu.au)
Professor and Head of Program
History Program
Research School of Social Sciences
Biography; gender, feminism and modernity in the United States and Australia.

Christopher E. Forth (ce.forth@anu.edu.au)
Reader in History
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Research interests: The transnational history of gender, sexuality and the body, with particular attention to masculinity, antisemitism, dietetics and obesity; European cultural and social history with an emphasis on modern France; twentieth-century popular culture, especially crime films, detective novels, westerns, film noir, science fiction and comic books.

Jill Julius Matthews (Jill.Matthews@anu.edu.au)
Reader and Convenor of History
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
The history of gender, sexuality and sexual cultures; history of popular culture and modernity; Australian social history and women's history; feminist historiography.
 
Peter Jackson (Peter.Jackson@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
Division of Pacific and Asian History
Research School of Pacific and Asian History
Thai cultural history; history of sexuality and sexual cultures; Buddhism and religious studies.

Kenneth Wells (Kenneth.Wells@anu.edu.au)
Professor in Korean History
Centre for Asian Societies and Histories
Faculty of Asian Studies
and
Division of History
Research School of Pacific and Asian History
History, language, and literature of North and South Korea.

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY

Katherine Gibson (Katherine.Gibson@anu.edu.au)
Professor and Head of Human Geography
Department of Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Postructuralist feminist critiques and reformulations of economic and geographic theory; diverse economies and alternative regional economic development in the Asia-Pacific region (PNG, Philippines, Indonesia), Australia and the US; international contract migration; and community economic activism in the Asia-Pacific region.

Deirdre McKay (Deirdre.Mckay@anu.edu.au)
Fellow
Human Geography
Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies
Gender and migration; performative femininity; gender and ecological management; Philippines.

LAW

Hilary Charlesworth (Hilary.Charlesworth@anu.edu.au)

Professor in the Regulatory Institutions Network, RSSS and an ARC Federation Fellow.
Her research interests include international law, human rights and feminist theory and post-conflict state building.

Carolyn Strange (carolyn.strange@anu.edu.au)
Graduate Director
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
Canadian, Australian and U.S. gender history (19th and 20thC's); crime, deviance and regulation; interpersonal and state-sanctioned violence; feminist criminology; socio-legal studies. 

Leon Wolff (Leon.Wolff@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer/Research Fellow
Faculty of Law/Australia-Japan Research Centre
Sexual harassment in Japan; gender criminology.

MUSIC

Ruth Lee Martin (Ruth.Martin@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer in Musicology
School of Music
Feminism and music; Australian women composers.

POLITICAL SCIENCE AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS

Dr Sharon Bessell (Sharon.Bessell@anu.edu.au)
Senior Lecturer
Asia Pacific School of Economics and Government
Women and political participation in the Asia-Pacific region (especially Indonesia); Gender, human rights and social policy; Gender and development; Children, human rights and social policy; Children's work and child labour in Southeast Asia (especially Indonesia and the Philippines); Children's participation.

Katrina Lee Koo (Katrina.leekoo@anu.edu.au)
Lecturer in Politics
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Critical security studies; gender in international relations; diplomatic history.

Marian Sawer (Marian.Sawer@anu.edu.au)
Professor of Political Science
Research School of Social Sciences
Gender politics and policy; the interaction of social movements and the state; and symbolic communication in politics.

David West (David.West@anu.edu.au)
Senior Lecturer
Political Science and International Relations
School of Social Sciences
Faculty of Arts
Philosophical conceptions of sexuality, reason and the self; gay/lesbian/queer social movements.

PSYCHOLOGY

Barbara David (Barbara.David@anu.edu.au)
School of Psychology
Faculty of Science
Social psychology of gender, including gender socialization and gender stereotypes.