Anne Marie Lunkenheimer

Author Anne Marie Lunkenheimer

Biography

Anne Lunkenheimer Johnston holds dual citizenship in both the United States and Australia where she currently resides. She earned a Ph.D. in Communication from Cornell University in New York and a Master of Public Health degree, specializing in Nursing, from the University of Minnesota. She also studied Spanish and Sociology at the Bachelor’s level, earning a double B.A. degree from Le Moyne College where she was inducted into the Gamma Pi Epsilon National Honor Society for Women in Jesuit Colleges.

Born and raised in rural Upstate New York, she became Red Creek Central’s first foreign student traveling to Spain at sixteen. Her varied background provided access to many international development and academic opportunities in Central America and the Caribbean, Southeast Asia, the South Pacific, Europe, Africa, Australia, and the United States.

Prior to migrating to Australia in 1987, she directed an Urban Studies program for a consortium of twelve mid-western universities. She lectured for both the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin on numerous Communication subjects, and taught Sociology and Speech-Communication on US military bases for the University of Maryland’s Southeast Asia Division. She was a Visiting Professor in Nursing Research at Binghamton University in New York at the time of the 9/11 terrorist attack followed by Visiting Professorships at St. Matthew’s University in the Cayman Islands and the University of Portland in Oregon.

Her Australian career has included public service appointments with Australia’s International Development Agency (AusAID) primarily as Director of Women, Health, and Population program planning, project design, training, and evaluation. Later, she was appointed Senior Lecturer for the University of Melbourne’s Key Centre for Women’s Health. Her international consulting commitments have taken her on numerous assignments in the South Pacific, Southeast Asia, Africa, Central America, and the Caribbean. More recently she lectured in the Nursing Department at three universities in China: Wenzhou Medical University; Jiangxi University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, and Inner Mongolia Medical University.

In 1993 she was awarded a Mac Arthur Foundation Leadership Fellowship to conduct research at the Center for Population and Development Studies at Harvard University. She also represented Australia on the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development’s Committee for Gender and Development for three years.

Her publications cover a variety of topics including, health care for the homeless; women’s status, empowerment, and reproductive outcomes; the role of participatory communication in environmental conflict management; as well as, confronting conflict through collaborative action.

Her writing is based on a life full of memorable experiences both in her home country and travels abroad, some rewarding and others extremely challenging.

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