Jacqueline Leckie

Jacqueline Leckie first became interested in Indian history and culture as a student at the University of Otago. She completed a PhD on Gujaratis in New Zealand in 1981 before teaching at the University of the South Pacific in Fiji and Kenyatta University in Nairobi.

In 1989 she returned to the Anthropology Department at Otago, where she is currently Programme Coordinator in Social Anthropology. She has published extensively on migration, ethnicity, gender, labour, health and development in Asia Pacific, especially Fiji.

She is working on two new projects; Mapping and Managing 'Madness': A History of Insanity in Fiji and editing Gender, Security and the Millennium Development Goal, a project   from her role as Co-Convener of the 2005 Otago University Foreign Policy School.

Jacqui is Vice-President of the Pacific History Association and Chairperson of the Editorial Board of Sites: A Journal of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies. Dr Leckie maintains that where possible academics should be active with the communities they research with and insure   academic outputs are accessible to a wider audience.

She lives in Dunedin with Graham Boyle, their daughter Tara, and elderly cat, Harris.

Jacqueline Leckie is author of To Labour with the State: The Fiji Public Service Association (OUP, 1997) and Indian Settlers: The Story of a New Zealand South Asian Community (OUP, 2007)