
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:
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Works
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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
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