Maureen Molloy (anthropologist)

Maureen Molloy
Academic background
Alma materUniversity of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, University of Auckland
Theses
Academic work
InstitutionsUniversity of Auckland

Maureen Anne Molloy is a Canadian–New Zealand anthropologist and author, and is emeritus professor at the University of Auckland. She lectured in women's studies and has studied the Nova Scotian settlement at Waipu. He research focuses on the connections among popular culture and scholarly concepts.

Academic career

Molloy completed a Bachelor of Education at the University of British Columbia, followed by a Master of Arts in 1980, on reproduction in Marxist literature.[1] She then earned a PhD at the University of Auckland, with a thesis titled Those who speak to the heart: kin and community among the Nova Scotians at Waipu 1850–1916.[2] A book resulting from her thesis was published by Dunmore Press. Molloy moved to New Zealand in 1983, and joined the faculty of the University of Auckland first as a lecturer in sociology, and then in Women's Studies.[3][4] Molloy was later the Director of the Institute for Research on Gender, and was promoted to Professor of Women's Studies in the Department of Anthropology.[5] Molloy retired in 2022 and was awarded the status of emeritus professor at the University of Auckland.[6]

Molloy's research focuses on connections among popular culture, policy contexts, and scholarly concepts. Along with historian Raewyn Dalziel, Molloy interviewed British historian Dorothy Thompson on the subject of women in nineteenth century England, to be released alongside videos of interviews of her husband E. P. Thompson.[7] Molloy wrote the Dictionary of New Zealand Biography article on Norman McLeod, the Scottish minister who led his people to settle at Waipu via Nova Scotia.[8] She has written several other books, including a study on cultural anthropologist Margaret Mead,[9][10][11] and more recent work on globalisation and the fashion industry, in collaboration with geographer Wendy Larner.[12][13]

Selected works

Scholia has a profile for Maureen Molloy (Q115367384).

Books

  • Molloy, Maureen; Larner, Wendy (2013). Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy. Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 200 pages.
  • Molloy, Maureen (2008). On Creating a Usable Culture: Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism. University of Hawaii Press. pp. 200 pages.
  • Molloy, Maureen (2005). From Z to A: Zizek at the Antipodes. Dunmore Publishing. pp. 1–239.
  • Molloy, Maureen (1991). Those who Speak to the Heart The Nova Scotian Scots at Waipu, 1854–1920. Dunmore Press. pp. 171 pages. ISBN 978-0864691309.

Journal articles

References

  1. ^ Molloy, Maureen Anne. Production and reproduction: a critical analysis of the use of 'reproduction' in Marxist literature on the family and the state (MA thesis). Open Collections, University of British Columbia. hdl:2429/21977.
  2. ^ Molloy, Maureen Anne (1986). Those who speak to the heart: kin and community among the Nova Scotians at Waipu 1850–1916 (PhD thesis). University of Auckland.
  3. ^ "Women's studies course planned". Press. 2 June 1989. p. 11.
  4. ^ Maureen Molloy (1 March 1993). "Science, Myth and the Adolescent Female: The Mazengarb Report, the Parker-Hulme Trial, and the Adoption Act of 1955". Women's Studies Journal. 9 (1): 1–25. ISSN 0112-4099. Wikidata Q130341893.
  5. ^ University Calendar (PDF). Auckland: University of Auckland. 1999.
  6. ^ "Professores Emeriti – The University of Auckland". www.calendar.auckland.ac.nz. Retrieved 22 September 2024.
  7. ^ "E. P. Thompson Video" (PDF). University of Canterbury Chronicle. 23 (21). 9 December 1998.
  8. ^ "Unknown", Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, retrieved 22 September 2024
  9. ^ Kehoe, A. B. (March 2009). "On creating a usable culture: Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism". Choice. 46 (7): 1363. ProQuest 225711479 – via ProQuest.
  10. ^ Silverstein, Michael (5 February 2009). "On creating a usable culture: Margaret Mead and the emergence of American cosmopolitanism – By Maureen A Molloy". Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 15 (1): 181–182. doi:10.1111/j.1467-9655.2008.01537_9.x.
  11. ^ Handler, Richard (2009). "On Creating a Usable Culture: Margaret Mead and the Emergence of American Cosmopolitanism by Maureen A. Molloy". American Ethnologist. 36 (3): 596. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1425.2009.01181_5.x.
  12. ^ Mansvelt, Juliana (April 2015). "Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy by M.Molloy and W.Larner, RGS-IBG Book Series, Wiley-Blackwell, Malden, MA, Oxford, Chichester, 2013. 200 pp. ISBN 978-1-4443-3702-0 (pbk) ISBN 978-1-4443-3701-3 (cloth)". New Zealand Geographer. 71 (1): 63–64. doi:10.1111/nzg.12072. ISSN 0028-8144.
  13. ^ West-Newman, Catherine Lane (1 January 2015). "Fashioning globalisation: New Zealand design, working women and the cultural economy". New Zealand Sociology. 30 (4): 257–261 – via Informit.