
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
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Works
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2005
Book
J W Davidson's contribution to New Zealand historiography
Munro, Doug (2005). J W Davidson's contribution to New Zealand historiography. Wellington, New Zealand: Treaty of Waitangi Research Unit, Stout Research Centre, Victoria University of Wellington.
2005
Journal Article
Where Our Hearts Still Lie: a life of Harry and Honor Maude in the Pacific Islands (by Susan Woodburn)
Munro, Doug (2005). Where Our Hearts Still Lie: a life of Harry and Honor Maude in the Pacific Islands (by Susan Woodburn). Journal if Pacific History, 40 (1), 124-125.
2005
Conference Publication
The male disease: Alchohol abuse and suicide in New Zealand, 1900-1950
Munro, Doug and Weaver, John (2005). The male disease: Alchohol abuse and suicide in New Zealand, 1900-1950. The New Zealand Historical Association Conference, University of Auckland, New Zealand, 24-27 November 2005.
2005
Journal Article
Sites of gender : An interview with Barbara Brookes
Munro, Doug (2005). Sites of gender : An interview with Barbara Brookes. History Now : te pae tawito o te wa, 11 (1-2), 2-4.
2005
Journal Article
The Early Years on the New Zealand Opera Company, 1954-1957
Munro, Doug (2005). The Early Years on the New Zealand Opera Company, 1954-1957. History Now, 11 (1-2), 19-23.
2005
Journal Article
In the wake of the Leonidas : Indo-Fijian indenture historiography
Munro, Doug (2005). In the wake of the Leonidas : Indo-Fijian indenture historiography. Journal of Pacific Studies, 28 (1), 93-117.
2005
Journal Article
Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: essays in honoyr of Robert C. Kiste (ed. Brij V. Lal)
Munro, Doug (2005). Pacific Places, Pacific Histories: essays in honoyr of Robert C. Kiste (ed. Brij V. Lal). Australia Historial Studies, 36 (126), 349-350.
2002
Journal Article
On Teaching the History of Sexuality, Interview of Clive Moore by Doug Munro
Moore, Clive R and Munro, Doug (2002). On Teaching the History of Sexuality, Interview of Clive Moore by Doug Munro. History Now, 8 (2), 203.
1996
Journal Article
The nature of pacific history: A bibliography of critical and reflective writings
Moore, Clive and Munro, Doug (1996). The nature of pacific history: A bibliography of critical and reflective writings. Journal of Pacific Studies, 20, 155-160.
1993
Book
Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation
Lal, Brij V., Munro, Doug and Beechert, Edward D. eds. (1993). Plantation Workers: Resistance and Accommodation. Honolulu: University of Hawai'i Press.
1992
Journal Article
Gilbert and Ellice Islanders on Queensland canefields, 1894-1899
Munro, Doug (1992). Gilbert and Ellice Islanders on Queensland canefields, 1894-1899. Journal of the Royal Historical Society of Queensland, 14 (11), 449-465.
1990
Book
Labour in the South Pacific
Moore, Clive, 1951- , Leckie, Jacqueline and Munro, Doug eds. (1990). Labour in the South Pacific. Townsville, Qld. : James Cook University of Northern Queensland.
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