Professor Vera Mackie

BA (Hons), MA (Monash), PhD (Adelaide)

Email: vera@uow.edu.au
Location: 19:1074
Phone: +61 2 4221 3179

Biography

Professor Vera Mackie is an ARC Future Fellow in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Wollongong.  She is currently working on a research project on Human Rights in the Asia-Pacific Region.  

Vera has varied teaching, research, administrative and supervisory experience in the fields of Japanese language and linguistics, Japanese history, gender studies and cultural studies. In addition to previous positions at Swinburne, the University of Adelaide, the University of Melbourne and Curtin University of Technology, she has been a Visiting Professor at Victoria University, Ochanomizu University and Hitotsubashi University. She is a member of the ARC Cultural Research Network and the ARC Asia-Pacific Futures Research Network, and was a member of the Australian Research Council College of Experts, 2003-2005.

Key publications:

• Mackie, V (2003) Feminism in Modern Japan: Citizenship, Embodiment and Sexuality. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
• Mackie, V (2003) Gurôbaruka to Jendâ Hyôshô ("Globalisation and Representations of Gender"). Tokyo: Ochanomizu Shobô.
• Jones, Paul and Mackie, Vera (eds) (2001) Relationships: Japan and Australia, 1870s - 1930s. Melbourne: History Monographs and RMIT Publishing.
• Hildson, Anne Marie, Macintyre, Martha, Mackie, Vera and Stivens, Maila (eds) (2000) Human Rights and Gender Politics: Asia-Pacific Perspectives. London: Routledge.
• Mackie, V (1997) Creating Socialist Women in Japan: Gender, Labour and Activism. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

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