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Professor Lenore Manderson
For the past 20 years, she has worked extensively to strengthen institution capability and develop research capacity in the social sciences and health, particularly in resource-poor environments in association with the WHO Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases (WHO/TDR). Professional ActivitiesCurrent AppointmentsHillel Friedland Fellow, School of Public Health, University of the Witwatersrand Professor, School of Psychology, Psychiatry and Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University School of Political and Social Inquiry, Faculty of Arts, Monash University Honours and Awards Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia, 1995 ARC Federation Fellowship, 2002-2007 (inaugural awards, awarded 25 September 2001) Rockefeller Foundation, Bellagio Research Residency, 2003 National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Research Resident, 2003 Fellow of the Society for Applied Anthropology (USA), 2002 Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, 2004 Hillel Friedland Award, University of the Witwatersrand, 2007 MASA Graduate Student Mentor Award, Society of Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2007 Current Board and Committee Membership Member, Inaugural Public Health Research Expert Advisory Panel (Victorian Department of Human Services), 2007-2009 Executive Board, Society of Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, 2006-2009 Society of Medical Anthropology, Papers Award Committee, Chairperson 2008 Society of Medical Anthropology, Chairperson, Dissertation Award, 2007-2008 Scientific Advisory Committee, Australian Research Centre for Sex, Health and Society, La Trobe University, 2001- Research InterestsProfessor Manderson’s research includes a series of related and complementary projects, which aim to contribute substantially to understanding how, in different cultural, social and economic settings and under different, more immediate circumstances, embodied experience, ideas of the self, and social relationships and their meanings, are revised and restructured as a result of corporeal change. The program is divided into a series of activities that capitalize, consolidate and expand on her earlier work. The major project is a study of cross-cultural contexts of disability and social exclusion. In collaboration with colleagues, comparative research is being undertaken in urban and rural settings in Australia, Thailand, Malaysia, Myanmar and Lao People’s Democratic Republic on cultural models and community understandings of disability; patterns of care and social integration of people with disability. In 2008, she commenced a new project, funded by ARC, with Professor Pranee Liamputtong (La Trobe University), Dr Elizabeth Hoban and Dr Katie Vasey, on Immigration and Parenting among Cambodian and Iraqi women in Australia. This study will explore the interrelationships between immigration, parenthood and personal and family identity in contemporary Australia. We will examine how experiences of resettlement and parenting interrelate, and analyze the tensions that emerge as women negotiate state institutions associated with resettlement and parenting. We will analyze how women use social networks in Australia and country of origin, through travel and transnational communication, for practical and emotional support, information and advice. By combining ethnographic and innovative survey methods, this study will generate new knowledge of the creative ways in which women negotiate social structures, extend networks and build up personal resources to ensure, in their own terms, that their children have a healthy start to life. Postgraduate Research Projects
CollaborationsHonorary professorial appointments at the School of Public Health, University of Witwatersrand, South Africa, The Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Malaysia and The Faculty of Nursing, Khon Kaen University, Thailand. Grant SupportImmigration and parenting among Cambodian and Iraqi women in Australia. ARC DP 0878866 2009-2011 (with Liamputtong, P., La Trobe; Hoban, L., Deakin; Vasey, K., Monash) PublicationsBooksMANDERSON, L. 1980. Women, Politics, and Change. The Kaum Ibu UMNO Malaysia, 1945-1972. Kuala Lumpur: Oxford University Press. Also as Wanita, Politik dan Perubahan. Pergerakan Kaum Ibu UMNO Malaysia, 1945-1972. Kuala Lumpur: Fajar Bakti Sdn Bhd (1981). MANDERSON, L. (ed.) 1986. Shared Wealth and Symbol: Food, Culture and Society in Oceaniaand Southeast Asia. New York: Cambridge University Press. Crouch, M. and MANDERSON, L. 1993. New Motherhood: Cultural and Personal Transitions in the 1980s. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Press/Gordon and Breach. MANDERSON, L. 1996. Sickness and the State. Health and Illness in Colonial Malaya, 1870-1940. Cambridge and Melbourne: Cambridge University Press (reprinted cloth and paper 2002) Rice, P.L. and MANDERSON, L. (eds.) 1996. Maternity and Reproductive Health in Asian Societies. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Press/Gordon and Breach. MANDERSON, L. and Jolly, M. (eds.) 1997. Sites of Desire/Economies of Pleasure. Sexualities in Asiaand the Pacific. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Whiteford, L.M. and MANDERSON, L. (eds.). 2000. Global Health Policy, Local Realities: The Fallacy of the Level Playing Field. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers. MANDERSON, L. and Liamputtong, P. (eds.) 2002. Coming of Age in South and Southeast Asia: Youth, Courtship and Sexuality. London: NIAS/Curzon Press. MANDERSON, L. and Bennett, L. R. (eds.) 2003. Violence against Women in Asian Societies. London: ASAA/Routledge. MANDERSON, L. (ed.). 2005. Rethinking Wellbeing: Essays on health, disability and disadvantage. Perth Curtin University Press for API Network MANDERSON, L. and SMITH-MORRIS, C. (eds). Under contract. Chronic Conditions, FluidStates: Globalization and the Anthropology of Illness. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Full list of publications |