She is professor emerita of philosophy at Macquarie University and a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities.
[3] Her thesis, Embodying Autonomy: Women and Moral Agency (1991), was supervised by Genevieve Lloyd, Kim Lycos and Moira Gatens.
[4] In 2007 Mackenzie was awarded the Australian Museum's Eureka Prize for Research in Ethics.
From 2011 to 2020 she was the founding Director of Macquarie's Research Centre for Agency, Values and Ethics (CAVE).
[5] From 2010 to 2012 Mackenzie was a member of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of the ARC College of Experts.