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Linda Connor is the Professor of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, from January 2009.

Linda was born in Sydney and completed a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) at the University of Sydney, graduating in 1974. She went on to complete a PhD in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Sydney, from 1976-1981, undertaking fieldwork in rural Bali, Indonesia, on traditional healers, local politics and the state. A year as a post-doctoral fellow at the University of California, San Francisco in 1982 was followed by three years at the East-West Center, Honolulu, Hawai‘i, where she worked on various projects including a curriculum development project to incorporate health social sciences into tertiary medical education in Indonesia.

During the years 1979-1991 she worked intensively with ethnographic filmmakers Timothy and Patsy Asch to produce a number of ethnographic films on healing and cremation in Bali, as well as an ethnographic film monograph (Jero Tapakan: Balinese Healer) first published in 1986, and revised in a second edition in 1996.

In 1986 she took up a lecturing position at the University of Newcastle, where she worked until the end of 2008. From 1998-2001 she was Head of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology in the Faculty of Arts and Social Science; from 2002-2008 she was President of the Academic Senate and a member of the University’s Senior Executive Group. Linda is currently an Australian Research Council Expert Advisory Panel member for the discipline of Anthropology on the Humanities Panel.