Born in
Adelaide, Margaret Kartomi studied at the
University of Adelaide, and then got her doctorate in musicology in
Berlin, from the
Humboldt University. She started at
Monash University in 1969, where she had a research fellowship (1969), then a lectureship (1979), and a readership (1976); she became a professor in 1989. At Monash, she founded the Sumatra Music Archive, the Asian Music Archive, and the Australian Archive of Jewish Music. She is on the editorial board of the Ethnomusicology Monograph Series of the University of Chicago Press, and of the Music, Dance and Theatre Iconography series of the Hollizer Wissenschaftsverlag. She has published many books, four monographs, and a number of important journal articles. == Awards and recognition ==