Academy of Social Sciences in Australia

Year elected: 1994
Panel: A
Discipline: Anthropology

Professor Gillian Bottomley is Emeritus Professor in Anthropology and Comparative Sociology at Macquarie University, Sydney. Her continuing research and publications include comparative studies of intercultural practice in Australia, France and Canada. Major themes are:

• migration, ethnicity and racialisation
• politics of identity and memory
• culture, class and gender in everyday life
• art, music and dance in negotiating difference

Professor Bottomley is a Vice-President of RC37, Sociology of the Arts, of the International Sociological Association and a Board Member of the International Association of Folk Arts (UNESCO).

• Gillian Bottomley (2002) Polyphony, Polythetic Practice and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Intercultural Studies.
• Gillian Bottomley (2000) Politics, Policies and Possibilities: Interculturalism in France and Australia, Communal Plural.
• Gillian Bottomley (2000) Jean Martin and the Exploration of (In)difference, Asia-Pacific Journal of Anthropology.
• Gillian Bottomley (1999) Towards a robust pluralism: Jean Martin's spirit of inquiry, In The future of Australian multiculturalism. Hage, G and Couch, R. (eds.). Sydney: Research Institute in Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Gillian Bottomley (1999) Cultures, multiculturalism and difference: some Greek-Australian initiatives, Etudes Helleniques/Hellenic Studies 7(2) Autumn.
• Gillian Bottomley (1998) Anthropology and the rhizomatic study of migration, The Australian Journal of Anthropology.
• Gillian Bottomley (1998) Colonialisms and contrapuntal histories: Writing modern Greece, In Appreciating difference: writing postcolonial history. B. Edwards and W. Ommundsen (eds.). Geelong: Deakin University Press.
• Gillian Bottomley (1992) From Another Place: Migration and the Politics of Culture. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press.

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