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Virginia Gail Hooker
Professor Emerita
B.A. (O.S.) Hons 1 (ANU), PhD (Monash)
The Australian National University
Department of Political & Social Change, Coral Bell School of Asia Pacific Affairs, ANU College of Asia & the Pacific
- Born Sydney 1946, Sydney Girls High then Lyneham High ACT.
- Studied Indonesian, Malay, Arabic, Southeast Asian History in Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU 1964-67.
- PhD at Monash University supervised by Prof C. Skinner and Dr L. Brakel, 1968-71.
- Two children born 1972, 1974.
- Research Asst to Prof Jamie Mackie founding head of Dept of Pol & Soc Change 1978-1980,
- Res Fellow RSPac 1980-82; f/t lecturer in Indonesian, Fac of Asian Studies 1982;
- Professor of Indonesian and Malay 1998 until retirement in 2007.
- Visiting Fellow in Dept of Pol & Soc Change, CAP 2008 to present.
Expertise Area(s)
Social Change
Law and Society
Asian History
Islamic Studies
Other Asian Literature (excl. South-East Asian)