Holly High

Holly High
Holly High at Deakin University
Born1976 (age 49–50)
AwardsARC Discovery Early Career Research Award (2012)
ARC Future Fellowship (2020)
Academic background
EducationAll Saints' College, Bathurst
Alma materAustralian National University
Thesis (2005)
Academic work
DisciplineAnthropology
Sub-discipline
Ethnography of socialism in Laos; gender; reproductive health; policy
InstitutionsDeakin University (2021–present)
Yale University Program in Agrarian Studies (2005–2006)
Clare Hall, Cambridge (from 2010)
Notable works
Fields of Desire: Poverty and Policy in Laos (2015)
Projectland: Life in a Lao Socialist Model Village (2021)
As If Already Free (2026)
Stone Masters: Power Encounters in Mainland Southeast Asia (2022)
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Holly High (born 1976) is an Australian anthropologist specialising in the ethnography of socialist Laos. She is an associate professor at Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation.