Donald Denoon, BA (Hons) (Natal), PhD (Cantab)
Emeritus Professor and Visiting Fellow, Division of Pacific and Asian History

Email: donald.denoon@anu.edu.au

Biographical Statement

Educated in South Africa and Cambridge, I worked in Makerere University, Uganda, and Ibadan University, Nigeria, before being rescued by the University of Papua New Guinea. My research is shaped by issues arising in the Pacific Islands and Australia.

Research Interests

Settler societies and their relations with indigenous peoples; Papua New Guinea's independence; Pacific Island medical history; Pacific Island mining history; the creation and destruction of regional identities.

Key Publications

• (general editor) Cambridge History of the Pacific Islanders, CUP, 1997.
• Public Health in Papua New Guinea, 1884-1984, CUP, 1989.
• Getting Under the Skin: the First Bougainville Mining Agreement, MUP, 2000.
• (with Philippa Mein-Smith and Marivic Wyndham) Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands: the Creation of Identities, Blackwells, 2000.

Career Highlights

Lecturer in History, Makerere University, Kampala (1966-72); Professor of History, University of Papua New Guinea (1972-81); Professor of Pacific History, The Australian National University (1990-present).