Professor Mary Kalantzis was
born in Valcouvina, Greece and arrived in Australia in 1953. Her work has
been at the interface between community, industry and university. She holds
a BA (Hons), with Majors in history and linguistics, a DipEd, and a PhD from
the School of History, Philosophy and Politics, Macquarie University. Her
thesis was entitled White
Man Dreaming: Drawing Australia’s Cultural Boundaries, Changes in
Commonwealth Immigration and Aboriginal Policies, 1945-67.
In 1982 Professor Kalantzis
was the recipient of a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award and in
1990-91 she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at the University of New
Hampshire in the United States.
Professor Kalantzis is Dean
of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at RMIT
University. Formerly, she was Director of the Institute of Interdisciplinary
Studies at James Cook University of North Queensland, Director of the Centre
for Workplace Communication and Culture at the University of Technology,
Sydney and a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Multicultural Studies
at the University of Wollongong. She has been a part time Commissioner of
the Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission and Chair of the
Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, whose role is to
advise the Queensland Premier on all matters relating to multiculturalism.
Her publications include
co-authorship of Mistaken Identity: Multiculturalism and the Demise of
Nationalism in Australia with Castles, Cope and Morrissey, Pluto Press,
Sydney, 1988/1990/1992; Minority Languages and Dominant Culture with
Cope and Slade, Falmer Press, London, 1989; Cultures of Schooling:
Pedagogies for Cultural Difference and Social Access, with Cope, Noble
and Poynting, Falmer Press, London, 1990; Productive Diversity, Pluto
Press, Sydney, 1997, Multiliteracies with Cope, Routledge, London,
2000 and A Place in the Sun, with Cope, HarperCollins Publishers,
Australia, 2000.
PO Box 71
Bundoora, Vic, 3083
Tel: 03 9925 7919
Fax: 03 9925 7723
Email: mary.kalantzis@rmit.edu.au
