Events

1941

Graduated - Bachelor of Science, University of Melbourne

1942

Graduated - Master of Science, University of Melbourne

1943 - 1945

Assistant Research Officer at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), where she was involved in the development of waterproof containers to transport food to troops in the Pacific.

1946

Graduated - Diploma in Nutrition, Australian Institute of Anatomy

1947

Member of the New Guinea Nutrition Research Unit, Commonwealth Department of Health

1948 - 1949

Nutritionist, Australian-American scientific expedition to Arnhem Land

1952

Graduated - Diploma in Social Anthropology, University of London

1953 - 1955

Fellowship - Received the Walter Mersh Strong Research Fellowship from the University of Sydney, which she used to carry out anthropological and nutritional fieldwork among the Kunimaipa people of Papua

1955 - 1956

Studentship - Received the Emslie Horniman Studentship from the Royal Anthropological Institute of London, which she used to continued her research in Papua.

1958 - 1960

Social Anthropology Consultant for the World Health Organisation to the government of Malaya

1961

Nutrition consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation to the government of Indonesia.

1962

Awarded - Awarded Doctorate of Philosophy in social anthropology

1962

Research Officer, Department of Economics, Institute of Advanced Studies at the Australian National University

1963

Temporary lecturer in Anthropology, University of Manchester

1964

Nutrition consultant for the Food and Agriculture Organisation in Africa

1965

Taught part-time at the London School of Economics and the London School of Hygiene

1965

Appointed - Appointed Lecturer at University of Sydney – the first woman to be offered a tenured position in the Department of Anthropology

1970

Promoted - Promoted to Senior Lecturer, University of Sydney

1973 - 1974

Appointed - Senior Fellow, East-West Centre, Hawaii

1976

Left Sydney to resettle in Hawaii, where she continued her studies of the ethnography of the Kunimaipa peop

1976

Married - Married Dr Douglas Oliver, a retired Professor of Anthropology from Harvard

2002

Died - Died in Honolulu

Sources used to compile this entry: de Lepervanche, Marie, 'Obituary: Annie Margaret McArthur, 1919-2002', The Australian Journal of Anthropology, vol. 13, no. 2, 2002, pp. 230-1; Stuart McIntyre, 'McArthur Fellowship', University of Melbourne, http://www.unimelb.edu.au/alumni/mum/2005/mcarthur.htm, accessed 11 November 2008.