Vera Mackie

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Vera Mackie

FRSN FASSA
Born
Vera Christine Mackie

1955 (age 65–66)
Glasgow, Scotland
OccupationHistorian
Academic background
EducationMonash University BA, MA University of Adelaide PhD
ThesisCreating socialist women in Japan, 1900-1937 (1994)

Vera Mackie (born 1955) FRSN FASSA is an Australian academic who has specialised in Japanese feminism and gender history. As of 2021 she is Honorary Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies at the University of Wollongong.[1]

Early life and education[]

Mackie was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1955.[2][3] In 1964 she moved to Victoria, Australia with her family, where she completed her secondary education at Mentone Girls' Grammar School.[4] She completed a BA (Hons) and MA (1985) at Monash University,[5] before receiving a PhD (1994) from the University of Adelaide.[6]

Career[]

From 1998 to 2004 Mackie was Foundation Professor of Japanese Studies at Curtin University. She then was appointed Australian Research Council (ARC) Australian Professorial Fellow at the University of Melbourne from 2004 to 2010. She moved to the University of Wollongong, initially as ARC Future Fellow (2010–2014), then moved into the position of Senior Professor of Asian and International Studies in 2014.[7]

Mackie served on the board of the International Federation for Research in Women's History from 2015 to 2020.[8] She was co-convener of the Australian Women's History Network from 2013 to 2016. She is a member of the editorial board of Lilith: A Feminist History Journal, published by the Australian Women's History Network.[9]

Awards and recognition[]

Mackie was elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia in 2004[7] and Fellow of the Royal Society of New South Wales in 2018.[10] She won the 2011 Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature.[11] She was awarded the University of Wollongong Vice Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Research Supervision in 2018.

Works[]

  • Mackie, Vera C; Japanese Studies Centre (Melbourne, Vic.) (1992), Gendering Japanese studies : a practical guide to teaching resources, Japanese Studies Centre, ISBN 978-0-7326-0419-6
  • Mackie, Vera C, ed. (1995), Feminism and the state in modern Japan, Japanese Studies Centre, ISBN 978-0-7326-0645-9
  • Mackie, Vera C (13 July 1997), Creating socialist women in Japan : gender, labour and activism, 1900-1937, Cambridge University Press (published 1997), ISBN 978-0-521-55137-3
  • Mackie, Vera C (2001), Gender in Japan : power and public policy, Routledge, ISBN 978-0-415-20487-3
  • Mackie, Vera C (26 February 2003), Feminism in modern Japan : citizenship, embodiment and sexuality, Cambridge University Press (published 2003), ISBN 978-0-521-82018-9
  • Mackie, Vera C (2005), Transcultures : Asia-Pacific media representations of globalisation, RoutledgeCurzon, ISBN 978-0-415-35202-4
  • Mackie, Vera C, ed. (2014), Ways of knowing about human rights in Asia, Abingdon, Oxon New York, NY Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, ISBN 978-1-138-83825-3
  • Germer, Andrea; Mackie, Vera C; Wöhr, Ulrike, 1962-, eds. (2014), Gender, nation and state in modern Japan, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-315-76867-0
  • McLelland, Mark J.; Mackie, Vera, eds. (2015), Routledge handbook of sexuality studies in East Asia, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-315-77487-9
  • Crozier-De Rosa, Sharon; Mackie, Vera C (2019), Remembering women's activism, Routledge, ISBN 978-1-138-79488-7
  • Mackie, Vera C; Marks, Nicola; Ferber, Sarah, eds. (24 July 2019), The reproductive industry : intimate experiences and global processes, Lexington Books (published 2019), ISBN 978-1-4985-7066-4
  • IVF and Assisted Reproduction: A Global History, Palgrave, 2020

References[]

  1. ^ "Mackie, Vera Prof". University of Wollongong. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  2. ^ "Mackie, Vera Christine". The Australian Women's Register. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  3. ^ "Mackie, Vera Christine (1955–)". Trove, National Library of Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  4. ^ Harrison, Sharon M. "Mackie, Vera Christine". The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia. Retrieved 12 November 2020.
  5. ^ Mackie, Vera C; Monash University. Thesis (1985), Sentence final expressions in spoken Japanese, Monash University, retrieved 13 November 2020
  6. ^ Mackie, Vera C (1994), Creating socialist women in Japan, 1900-1937, retrieved 13 November 2020
  7. ^ Jump up to: a b "Academy Fellow: Professor Vera Mackie FASSA". Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Former Office-holders and Board Members". International Federation for Research in Women's History. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  9. ^ "About: Editorial Board". Australian Women's History Network. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
  10. ^ "Government Gazette of the State of New South Wales" (PDF). Government Gazette. No 8. 31 January 2019.
  11. ^ "Inoue Yasushi Award for Outstanding Research in Japanese Literature (Mackie, Vera - 2011)". scholars.uow.edu.au. Retrieved 13 November 2020.
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