Dorothy Shineberg

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Dorothy Lois Shineberg (born February 1927 in Hampton , Melbourne , † August 19, 2004 in Australia ) was an Australian historian and professor for Pacific studies .

Life

Dorothy Shineberg received her BA and Ph.D. from the University of Melbourne and an MA from Smith College , Massachusetts, where she taught for two years. The subject, originally called “Colonial Studies” in its time, became “Pacific Islands Studies”, the beginning of Pacific Studies in Australia. Originally out of the need to train administrative officials for the Pacific region, researchers of Pacific history developed a life of their own, which culminated in an Australian historians' dispute between Melbourne and Canberra. From 1948 Shineberg worked at the Australian School of Pacific Administration and held from 1953 first teaching units at Melbourne University. In 1964 she moved to the Australian National University (ANU) in Canberra , where she became the first female researcher to be recognized as a Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies. From 1971 to 1988 she taught Pacific history in the history department there.

She is particularly well known for her early participation in the subject-specific nature of today's Pacific studies. Her main work, They Came for Sandelwood , is considered a classic.

Fonts

  • They came for sandalwood. A study of the sandalwood trade in the south-west Pacific, 1830-1865. Melbourne University Press, Melbourne; Cambridge University Press, London, New York 1967. (First dissertation, University of Melbourne 1965: The sandalwood trade in the islands of the south-west Pacific, 1830–65 with special reference to the problems and effects of early contact between Europeans and Melanesians . ).
  • Dorothy Shineberg, Andrew Cheyne: The trading voyages of Andrew Cheyne 1841-1844. ( Pacific history series ; No. 3). Australian National University Press, Canberra 1971.
  • Doug Munro, Dorothy Shineberg: Reflections on Pacific Island historiography. ( Journal of Pacific studies ; Volume 20). The University of the South Pacific, Suva, Fiji 1996.
  • The people trade. Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865-1930. ( Pacific islands monograph series ; No. 16). University of Hawaii Press, Honolulu 1999.

Contributions (selection):

  • Le Discovery à Rapa et à Tahiti, 1791–1792: journal d'Archibald Menzies. In: Bulletin de la Société des études océaniennes. Papeete, Vol. 18, No. 3, 1981, pp. 789-826. ISSN  0373-8957 .

literature

  • Bronwen Douglas: Dorothy Shineberg: Pioneer Pacific Scholar, Teacher, Friend. In: Journal of Pacific History , Vol. 40, No. 3, 2005, pp. 353-356.
  • Doug Munro : Wise, humane and sagacious: a tribute to Dorothy Shineberg (1927-2004). In: The Journal of Pacific Studies , Volume 27, No. 2, 2004, pp. 277-282.
  • Dorothy Shineberg: Reflections: The Early Years of Pacific History. In: The Journal of Pacific Studies , Volume. 20, 1996, pp. 1-16. (Autobiographical contribution, English).
  • Sharon M. Harrison: Shineberg, Dorothy Lois (1927-2004). In: The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia .
  • Shineberg, Dorothy Lois. In: The Australian Women's Register , National Foundation for Australian Women.

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SURNAME Shineberg, Dorothy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Munro, Dorothy Lois; Shineberg, Dorothy Lois
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH February 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Hampton , Melbourne
DATE OF DEATH August 19, 2004
Place of death Australia