Background
Mary Kalantzis was born in a village in the Peloponnese, Greece, and migrated to Australia with her family in 1953.
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Career
She has a deep interest in the development and history of multiculturalism and the impact it has had on Australian society. She was the eldest of three children, to Nicholas and Diamondo. In 1982 she was the recipient of a Commonwealth Postgraduate Research Award, and in 1990-1991 she was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence at Keene State College of the University System of New Hampshire in the United States.
She has since held (in reverse chronological order) appointments as Dean of the Faculty of Education, Language and Community Services at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, 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.
While serving as Dean at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University she was elected President of the Australian Council of Deans of Education.
Politics
Productive Diversity: Organisational Life in the Era of Civic Pluralism and Total Globalisation, Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope.
Membership
Her service activities include being a Board Member of Teaching Australia, belonging to The National Institute for Quality Teaching and School Leadership, appointment as a Commissioner of the Australian Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission, Chair of the Queensland Ethnic Affairs Ministerial Advisory Committee, Vice President of the National Languages and Literacy Institute of Australia and a member of the Australia Council"s Community Cultural Development Board.
