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Adjunct Professor Doug Munro
Adjunct Professor

Doug Munro

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Overview

Background

Although starting off as an historian of the Pacific Islands, I now think of myself more as a biographer with an emphasis on 'telling academic lives'. My experience includes fieldwork in Tuvalu in the late 1970s, being Project Historian at the Port Arthur Historic Site in Tasmania in the early 1980s, and then teaching successively at the Darling Downs Institute of Advanced Education, Bond University and the University of the South Pacific, where I was Associate Professor and Head of Department. As well as being awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to Yale University and a Harold White Fellowship at the National Library of Australia, I’ve been an Associate of the Stout Research Centre at Victoria University of Wellington and a Scholar at the Macmillan Brown Centre for Pacific Studies, University of Canterbury. Between 2001 and 2005, I was the regular interviewer for History Now and then the review editor of the Journal of Pacific History (2005-12). As an undergraduate I founded the Flinders Journal of History and Politics, have twice been Guest Editor of the Journal of Pacific Studies, and most co-editor of a special issue (on ‘Telling Academic Lives’) of the Journal of Historical Biography. I am currently co-editing with Jon Fraenkel (Victoria University of Wellington) a special issue of Round Table in honour of Brij V. Lal.

Availability

Adjunct Professor Doug Munro is:
Available for supervision

Works

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132 works between 1990 and 2024

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2024

Journal Article

Ryan Cropp, Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country

Munro, Doug (2024). Ryan Cropp, Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country. Journal of Australian, Canadian, and Aotearoa New Zealand Studies, 4, 281-282. doi: 10.52230/svqq1960

Ryan Cropp, Donald Horne: A Life in the Lucky Country

2024

Journal Article

Brij V. Lal & K.L. Gillion: The apprentice and the sorcerer

Munro, Doug (2024). Brij V. Lal & K.L. Gillion: The apprentice and the sorcerer. Journal of Indentureship and its Legacies, 3 (2), 31-52. doi: 10.13169/jofstudindentleg.3.2.0031

Brij V. Lal & K.L. Gillion: The apprentice and the sorcerer

2023

Journal Article

Editors’ introduction: Brij V. Lal and the contemporary politics of Fiji

Munro, Doug and Fraenkel, Jon (2023). Editors’ introduction: Brij V. Lal and the contemporary politics of Fiji. The Journal of Pacific History, 59 (2), 117-124. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2023.2254715

Editors’ introduction: Brij V. Lal and the contemporary politics of Fiji

2023

Journal Article

Australian Political Science in the 1960s: Establishing the Discipline of Politics at Flinders University

Munro, Doug (2023). Australian Political Science in the 1960s: Establishing the Discipline of Politics at Flinders University. Australian Journal of Politics & History, 70 (1), 61-75. doi: 10.1111/ajph.12887

Australian Political Science in the 1960s: Establishing the Discipline of Politics at Flinders University

2023

Book

Chicanery: Senior academic appointments in antipodean anthropology, 1920-1960

Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2023). Chicanery: Senior academic appointments in antipodean anthropology, 1920-1960. New York, NY, United States: Berghahn Books. doi: 10.3167/9781800739703

Chicanery: Senior academic appointments in antipodean anthropology, 1920-1960

2021

Book Chapter

“Now for the grand secret”: a history of the post-mortem identity and heavenly reunions, 1800-2000

Weaver, John C. and Munro, Doug (2021). “Now for the grand secret”: a history of the post-mortem identity and heavenly reunions, 1800-2000. The Routledge history of death since 1800. (pp. 194-212) edited by Peter N. Stearns. Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9780429028274-11

“Now for the grand secret”: a history of the post-mortem identity and heavenly reunions, 1800-2000

2021

Book

History wars: the Peter Ryan–Manning Clark controversy

Munro, Doug (2021). History wars: the Peter Ryan–Manning Clark controversy. Acton, ACT: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/hw.2021

History wars: the Peter Ryan–Manning Clark controversy

2020

Book Chapter

From reticence to revelation: biography in New Zealand

Munro, Doug (2020). From reticence to revelation: biography in New Zealand. Different lives: global perspectives on biography in public cultures and societies. (pp. 148-164) edited by Hans Renders and David Veltman. Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. doi: 10.1163/9789004434974_014

From reticence to revelation: biography in New Zealand

2020

Journal Article

The Tinker-Gillion controversy in Indo-Fijian indenture historiography

Munro, Doug (2020). The Tinker-Gillion controversy in Indo-Fijian indenture historiography. Slavery and Abolition, 42 (2), 1-19. doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2020.1741834

The Tinker-Gillion controversy in Indo-Fijian indenture historiography

2018

Other Outputs

I-Kiribati Workers on British Plantations in Samoa, 1877–1881

Munro, Doug (2018, 11 02). I-Kiribati Workers on British Plantations in Samoa, 1877–1881 Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine (Mauritius) 52-54.

I-Kiribati Workers on British Plantations in Samoa, 1877–1881

2018

Journal Article

Oliver MacDonagh: foundation Professor of History at Flinders University

Munro, Doug (2018). Oliver MacDonagh: foundation Professor of History at Flinders University. History Australia, 15 (4), 638-656. doi: 10.1080/14490854.2018.1514268

Oliver MacDonagh: foundation Professor of History at Flinders University

2017

Other Outputs

Indentured Labour in the Pacific Islands and Queensland

Munro, Doug (2017, 11 02). Indentured Labour in the Pacific Islands and Queensland Aapravasi Ghat Trust Fund Magazine (Mauritius) 49-51.

Indentured Labour in the Pacific Islands and Queensland

2017

Book Chapter

Editors' introduction

Munro, Doug and Corbett, Jack (2017). Editors' introduction. Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal. (pp. 3-9) edited by Doug Munro and Jack Corbett. Canberra: ANU Press.

Editors' introduction

2017

Journal Article

On being an historian in different academic settings

Munro, Doug (2017). On being an historian in different academic settings. Pacific Journal of Education, 1 (1), 73-87.

On being an historian in different academic settings

2017

Book Chapter

Autobiography and faction

Munro, Doug (2017). Autobiography and faction. Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal. (pp. 247-272) edited by Doug Munro and Jack Corbett. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.

Autobiography and faction

2017

Book Chapter

Bibliography of Brij V. Lal's academic writings

Munro, Doug (2017). Bibliography of Brij V. Lal's academic writings. Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal. (pp. 307-333) edited by Doug Munro and Jack Corbett. Canberra: ANU Press.

Bibliography of Brij V. Lal's academic writings

2017

Book Chapter

Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age

Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2017). Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age. Clio's lives: biographies and autobiographies of historians. (pp. 39-63) edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/CL.10.2017.03

Walvin, Fitzpatrick and Rickard: three autobiographies of childhood and coming of age

2017

Book

Clio's lives: biographies and autobiographies of historians

Doug Munro and John G. Reid eds. (2017). Clio's lives: biographies and autobiographies of historians. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/CL.10.2017

Clio's lives: biographies and autobiographies of historians

2017

Book

Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal

Doug Munro and Jack Corbett eds. (2017). Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal. Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.

Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal

2017

Journal Article

The house that Hugh built: the Adelaide history department during the Stretton era, 1954-1966

Munro, Doug (2017). The house that Hugh built: the Adelaide history department during the Stretton era, 1954-1966. History of Education, 46 (5), 631-652. doi: 10.1080/0046760x.2017.1318306

The house that Hugh built: the Adelaide history department during the Stretton era, 1954-1966

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