Majella Franzmann

In 2013 Franzmann was elected as a member of the Australian Council of Learned Academies for a three-year term.

In 2006 the Australian Association for the Study of Religion (AASR) Women's Caucus invited Franzmann to give the annual Penny Magee Memorial Lecture. The title of her talk was, "Tehat the Weaver: Women's Experience in Manichaeism in Fourth-century Roman Kellis".

Franzmann was Associate Dean (Research) and Chair of Academic Board at the University of New England from 2004 to 2006. From 2008 to early 2010 she was Pro Vice-Chancellor Humanities and Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Otago in New Zealand. She then returned to Australia to take up the position of Pro-Vice Chancellor Humanities at Curtin University from 2010 to 2015. Franzmann is now an Honorary Professor in the Department of Studies in Religion at the University of Sydney.

Franzmann was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 2001 in the Classical Studies/Religion Section.

In 2001 Franzmann was awarded the Australian Centenary Medal for services to Australian society and the humanities in philosophy and religion.

Franzmann completed her PhD at the University of Queensland in 1990 in the School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics. The title of her thesis was "An analysis of the poetical structure and form of the Odes of Solomon". While Franzmann was working on her doctorate she also spent time at the University of Tübingen on a German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) scholarship. On completion of her doctorate she was the recipient of a Humboldt Fellowship from 1992 to 1993. She renewed her Fellowship in 1995 and 2007.