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Adjunct Professor Doug Munro

Adjunct Professor

School of Historical and Philosophical Inquiry
Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences
d.munro2@uq.edu.au

Overview

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.

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  • “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

  • 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

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Indenture and contemporary Fiji

    Munro, Doug (2017). Indenture and contemporary Fiji. Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal. (pp. 13-27) edited by Doug Munro and Jack Corbett. Canberra: ANU Press.

  • Introduction

    Munro, Doug and Reid, John G. (2017). Introduction. Clio's lives: biographies and autobiographies of historians. (pp. 1-13) edited by Doug Munro and John G. Reid. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU Press. doi: 10.22459/CL.10.2017.01

  • 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

  • How illuminating it has been': Matthews and McKenna, and their biographies of Manning Clark

    Munro, Doug (2016). How illuminating it has been': Matthews and McKenna, and their biographies of Manning Clark. Emigrants and Historians: essays in honour of Eric Richards. (pp. 98-131) edited by Philip Payton. Adelaide, SA, Australia: Wakefield Press.

  • Biographies of post-1900 New Zealand prime ministers

    Munro, Doug (2015). Biographies of post-1900 New Zealand prime ministers. Political life writing in the Pacific: reflections on practice. (pp. 145-167) edited by Jack Corbett and Brij V. Lal. Acton, ACT, Australia: ANU Press.

  • Tuvalu

    Munro, Doug and Goldsmith, Michael (2015). Tuvalu. Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices. (pp. 418-424) edited by Thomas Riggs. Farmington Hills, MI United States: Gale Publishing.

  • Conclusion: on resistance and accommodation

    Munro, Doug (2014). Conclusion: on resistance and accommodation. Resistance and Indian Indenture Experience: Comparative Perspectives. (pp. 293-309) edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Brij V. Lal and Doug Munro. Daryaganj, New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.

  • Non-resistance in Fiji

    Lal, Brij and Munro, Doug (2014). Non-resistance in Fiji. Resistance and Indian Indenture Experience: Comparative Perspectives. (pp. 121-156) edited by Maurits S. Hassankhan, Brij V. Lal and Doug Munro. Daryaganj, New Delhi, India: Manohar Publishers & Distributors.

  • “The Department Was in Some Disarray”: The Politics of Choosing a Successor to S. F. Nadel, 1957

    Gray, Geoffrey and Munro, Doug (2014). “The Department Was in Some Disarray”: The Politics of Choosing a Successor to S. F. Nadel, 1957. Anthropologists and Their Traditions across National Borders. (pp. 141-172) edited by Regna Darnell and Frederic W. Gleach. Lincoln, United States: University of Nebraska Press.

  • Indian migration to the South Pacific

    Munro, Doug (2013). Indian migration to the South Pacific. The encyclopedia of global human migration. (pp. 1-4) edited by Immanuel Ness. Hoboken, NJ, United States: Wiley-Blackwell. doi: 10.1002/9781444351071.wbeghm585

  • Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude

    Munro, Doug and Gray, Geoffrey (2013). Ron Crocombe and Harry Maude. Ron Crocombe: E Toa! Pacific writings to celebrate his life and work. (pp. 485-503) edited by Linda Crowl, Marjorie Tuainekore Crocombe and Roderick Dixon. Suva, Fiji: USP Press.

  • Foreword

    Munro, Doug (2012). Foreword. ‘…when the long trick’s over’: Donald Kennedy in the Pacific. (pp. iv-vi) edited by Mike Butcher. Bendigo, Australia: Holland House.

  • Introduction

    Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2012). Introduction. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 1-27) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.

  • J. W. Davidson on the home front

    Munro, Doug (2012). J. W. Davidson on the home front. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 187-206) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.

  • Part II: the New Zealanders

    Munro, Doug (2012). Part II: the New Zealanders. Scholars at War: Australasian Social Scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. 163-168) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, Australia: ANU E Press.

  • Preface

    Gray, Geoffrey, Munro, Doug and Winter, Christine (2012). Preface. Scholars at war: Australasian social scientists, 1939-1945. (pp. VII-VIi) edited by Geoffrey Gray, Doug Munro and Christine Winter. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.

  • Foreword: what you see is what you get

    Munro, Doug (2011). Foreword: what you see is what you get. Intersections: history, memory, discipline. (pp. vii-xi) edited by Brij V. Lal. Lautoka, Fiji: Fiji Institute of Applied Studies & Asia Pacific Publications.

  • On being a participant biographer : The search for J.W. Davidson

    Munro, Doug (2008). On being a participant biographer : The search for J.W. Davidson. Telling Pacific lives : prisms of process. (pp. 149-163) edited by Brij V. Lal and Vicki Luker. Canberra, ACT, Australia: ANU E Press.

  • Distangling Samoan history : The contributions of Gilson and Davidson

    Munro, Doug (2006). Distangling Samoan history : The contributions of Gilson and Davidson. Texts and contexts : Reflections in Pacific Islands historiography. (pp. 225-237) edited by Doug Munro and Brij V. Lal. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Of islands and sandalwood : Shineberg, Maude and the hidden history of trade

    Douglas, Bronwen and Munro, Doug (2006). Of islands and sandalwood : Shineberg, Maude and the hidden history of trade. Texts and contexts : Reflections in Pacific Islands historiography. (pp. 140-153) edited by Doug Munro and Brij V. Lal. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

  • On Douglas Oliver's The Pacific Islands

    Munro, Doug (2006). On Douglas Oliver's The Pacific Islands. Texts and contexts : Reflections in Pacific Islands historiography. (pp. 29-38) edited by Doug Munro and Brij V. Lal. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

  • The text in its context : An introduction

    Lal, Brij V. and Munro, Doug (2006). The text in its context : An introduction. Texts and contexts : Reflections in Pacific Islands historiography. (pp. 1-14) Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

  • Where the waves fall - or, playing the generalist game

    Munro, Doug (2006). Where the waves fall - or, playing the generalist game. Texts and contexts : Reflections in Pacific Islands historiography. (pp. 51-62) edited by Doug Munro and Brij V. Lal. Honolulu, Hawaii: University of Hawaii Press.

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