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Virginia Hooker

Professor Emerita Virginia Hooker

  • Post Nominals: AM, FAHA
  • Fellow Type: Fellow
  • Elected to the Academy: 2003
  • Section(s): Asian Studies

Biography

Virginia Hooker, AM, is professor emerita in the Department of Political and Social Change, College of Asia and the Pacific at the Australian National University. Among her recent publications are ‘When Laws Are Not Enough’, in Gary Bell (ed.), Pluralism, Transnationalism and Culture in Asian Law (ISEAS Publishing, 2017), ‘“By the Pen!”’, in Samer Akkach (ed.) ʿIlm: Science, Religion and Art in Islam (University of Adelaide Press, 2019), ‘Seeing with the “Eyes of the Heart”’, in Samer Akkach (ed.) Nazar: Vision, Belief and Perception (Brill, 2022), co-editor and contributor to Living Art: Indonesian artists Engage Politics, Society and History, (ANU Press, 2023).

 

Acknowledgement of Country

The Australian Academy of the Humanities recognises Australia’s First Nations Peoples as the traditional owners and custodians of this land, and their continuous connection to country, community and culture.