Dorothy Shineberg
Australian historian
Dorothy Shineberg
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Born |
Dorothy Lois Munro
February 1927
Hampton, Victoria
, Victoria, Australia
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Died |
19 August 2004
(2004-08-19)
(aged
77)
Australia
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Occupation | Historian |
Academic background | |
Education | Mac.Robertson Girls' High School |
Alma mater | University of Melbourne |
Thesis | The sandalwood trade in the south-west Pacific, 1830–1865, with special reference to the problems and effects of early contact between Europeans and Melanesians (1965) |
Dorothy Lois Shineberg (February 1927 – 19 August 2004) was an Australian historian who specialised in Melanesian history. In 1950 she was the first Australian woman to win a Fulbright Travelling Scholarship and later taught the first courses in Pacific history at an Australian university.
Early life and education
Shineberg was born in Hampton , Victoria in February 1927. After her father's death in 1936 she and her four sisters were brought up by their mother. She won a scholarship to attend the selective Mac.Robertson Girls' High School and later another scholarship for University of Melbourne , from which she graduated in 1946 with a BA (Hons). [1] She also had an MA from Smith College . [2] She completed her PhD (1961–1965) at the same university, with a thesis titled "The sandalwood trade in the south-west Pacific, 1830–1865, with special reference to the problems and effects of early contact between Europeans and Melanesians". [3]
Career
Following graduation, Shineberg tutored at the University of Melbourne in 1947. She moved to Sydney to take a position as tutor in colonial history with the Australian School of Pacific Administration (ASOPA) for three years. [1] Her colleagues included anthropologists Camilla Wedgwood and Ian Hogbin , lawyers John Kerr and Hal Wootten and poet James McAuley . [2]
In 1950 she was the first Australian woman to win a Fulbright Travelling Scholarship which took her to Smith College in Massachusetts for two years where she completed a Master of Arts. [2] Her work was influenced by Italian historian and anti-Fascist Max Salvadori . [1]
On her return, she taught the first Pacific history courses ever run by any university in Australia to students at the University of Melbourne. [4] While completing her PhD thesis, Shineberg spent 1964 at the Australian National University (ANU) as research fellow in the Department of Pacific History, Research School of Pacific Studies. [4]
After a career spent in both research and teaching at ANU, [2] Shineberg retired from her position of Reader in 1988, but returned as visiting fellow. [4]
She served on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Pacific History from 1966 to 1997, including as co-editor from 1987 to 1990. A member of the Pacific History Association, she was granted life membership in 1998. [2]
She contributed three biographies for the Australian Dictionary of Biography – Ranulph Dacre , [5] Richard Jones [6] and Robert Towns . [7] Her research papers are held in the ANU Archives. [4]
Selected works
- Shineberg, Dorothy (1967), They Came for Sandalwood: A Study of the Sandalwood Trade in the South-West Pacific 1830–1865 , Melbourne University Press
- Shineberg, Dorothy (1973), Ils étaient venus chercher du santal: étude sur le trafic du bois de santal en Nouvelle-Calédonie et aux Nouvelles-Hébrides de 1830 à 1865 , Surleau, André (translator) (3e éd ed.), Nouvelle-Calédonie Société d'études historiques de la Nouvelle-Calédonie
- Shineberg, Dorothy (31 May 1999), The people trade: Pacific Island laborers and New Caledonia, 1865–1930 , Center for Pacific Islands Studies, School of Hawaiian, Asian, and Pacific Studies, University of Hawai'i : University of Hawai'i Press (published 1999), ISBN 978-0-8248-6491-0
Personal
Shineberg married Barry Shineberg, with whom she had a son and a daughter, Michael and Susan, in 1953. [2]
She was diagnosed with cancer in 2002 and died on 19 August 2004. [2] She was survived by her husband and her children. [8] Bronwen Douglas concluded her obituary in the Journal of Pacific History , writing "Pacific history has lost one of its most distinguished founders". [2]
References
- 1 2 3 Harrison, Sharon M. "Shineberg, Dorothy Lois" . The Encyclopedia of Women and Leadership in Twentieth-Century Australia . Archived from the original on 24 September 2015 . Retrieved 3 December 2021 .
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Douglas, Bronwen (2005). "Dorothy Shineberg: Pioneer Pacific Scholar, Inspiring Teacher, Friend" . The Journal of Pacific History . 40 (3): 353–356. doi : 10.1080/00223340500312096 . ISSN 0022-3344 . JSTOR 25169770 . S2CID 162029257 .
- ↑ Shineberg, Dorothy (1965), The sandalwood trade in the south-west Pacific, 1830–1865: with special reference to the problems snd effects of early contact between Europeans and Melanesians , retrieved 4 December 2021
- 1 2 3 4 "Dorothy Shineberg research papers - Archives" . archivescollection.anu.edu.au . Retrieved 3 December 2021 .
- ↑ Shineberg, D., "Dacre, Ranulph (1797–1884)" , Australian Dictionary of Biography , Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University , retrieved 3 December 2021
- ↑ Shineberg, D., "Jones, Richard (1786–1852)" , Australian Dictionary of Biography , Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University , retrieved 3 December 2021
- ↑ Shineberg, D., "Towns, Robert (1794–1873)" , Australian Dictionary of Biography , Canberra: National Centre of Biography, Australian National University , retrieved 3 December 2021
- ↑ Macknight, Campbell (17 November 2004). "Scrupulous scholar of the Pacific" . The Sydney Morning Herald . Archived from the original on 3 December 2021 . Retrieved 3 December 2021 .
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