Clive Moore

Short Biography

Clive Moore's research is centred on Australia and the Pacific. He is a Pacific ethnohistorian, the leading historian of the indentured labour trade from Melanesia to Queensland during the nineteenth century, since his benchmark study Kanaka: A History of Melanesian Mackay (Port Moresby, 1985). He has also written extensively on the Pacific labour reserve, Australian federation, masculinity and gay studies, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands. His New Guinea: Crossing Boundaries and History (Honolulu, 2003) is the only study of the whole island of New Guinea over 40,000 years. His most recent book is Happy Isles in Crisis: The Historical Causes for a failing State in Solomon Islands, 1998–2004 (Canberra, 2004). Before his appointment at The University of Queensland he taught at James Cook University, Townsville, and the University of Papua New Guinea. His major current research projects are a history of Malaita Province in Solomon Islands and a historical dictionary of Solomon Islands.