David
Hanlon
Professor and Director, Center for Pacific Islands Studies;
PhD University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (1984)
e-mail: hanlon@hawaii.edu David
Hanlon first came to the Pacific in 1970 with the Peace Corps. He and
his wife Kathy served on the island of Pohnpei until 1973 as English
language teachers in the village of Wone. They returned to the island
in 1977 and taught at the Community College of Micronesia in Kolonia
Town until 1980. While on island, Dr Hanlon served as an advisor to
the local historic preservation program and conducted an archaeological
inventory of historic properties in the greater Kolonia area. He holds
an MA degree in international relations from the Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International
Studies and a doctorate in Pacific Islands history from the University
of Hawai‘i at Mānoa.
David Hanlon is the author of the award-winning book Upon
a Stone Altar: A History of the Island of Pohnpei to 1890 and
the more recent Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development
in a Pacific Territory, 1844-1982. He is also the co-editor with
Geoffrey M White of Voyaging Through the Contemporary Pacific.
Dr Hanlon was one of the founders of The Contemporary Pacific:
A Journal of Island Affairs and served as its editor for seven
years before becoming editor of the Pacific Islands Monograph Series.
He also sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Pacific History. His
research interests include Micronesia, missionization, development,
Pacific historiography, and cross-cultural encounters; he is currently
working on a biography of Tosiwo Nakayama, the first president of the
Federated States of Micronesia. He maintains strong commitment to graduate
education and to mentoring students from the Pacific Islands region
and has been honored twice by the university as the recipient of UH
Presidential and Board of Regents awards for excellence in teaching.
He succeeded Robert C Kiste as director of the center in August of
2002.
Selected publications
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| 2000 |
Voyaging Through the Contemporary
Pacific, co-edited with Geoffrey M White. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. |
| 1998 |
Remaking Micronesia: Discourses Over Development
in a Pacific Territory, 1944–1982. Honolulu: University
of Hawai‘i Press. |
| 1988 |
Upon A Stone Altar: A History of the Island
of Pohnpei to 1890. Pacific Islands Monograph Series 5.
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press. [Winner of the 1989
American Society of Ethnohistory’s Erminie Wheeler-Voeglin
Prize for the outstanding book in the field of ethnohistory published
in the preceding year.] |
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| 1981 |
From Mesenieng to Kolonia: An
Archaeological Survey of Historic Kolonia. Micronesian Archaeological
Survey Report 5. Saipan: Trust Territory Government Press. |
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| 2005 |
On Francis X. Hezel’s The
First Taint of Civilization. In Texts and Contexts:
Reflections in Pacific Islands Historiography, edited by
Doug Munro and Brij V Lal, Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i
Press. |
| 2004 |
Wone
Sohte Lohdi: History and Place on Pohnpei. In Pacific Places, Pacific
Histories: Essays in Honor of Robert C. Kiste, edited
by Brij V Lal, 195–215. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i
Press. |
| 2003 |
Beyond “the
English Method of Tattooing”: Decentering the Practice
of History in Oceania. In Back to the Future: Decolonizing
Pacific Studies, edited by Vilsoni Hereniko and Terence
Wesley-Smith. Special issue of The Contemporary Pacific 15:19–40. |
| 2001 |
Converting
Pasts and Presents: Reflections on Histories of Missionary Enterprises
in the Pacific. In Pacific Lives, Pacific Places: Changing
Boundaries in Pacific History, edited by Brij V Lal and
Peter Hempenstall, 143–154. Canberra: Coombs Academic Publishing. |
| 2000 |
Introduction (with Geoffrey M White). In Voyaging
Through the Contemporary Pacific, edited by David Hanlon
and Geoffrey M White, 1–22. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield
Publishers. |
| 1999 |
The Chill of History: The Experience, Emotion
and Changing Politics of Archival Research in the Pacific. Archives
and Manuscripts: The Journal of the Australian Society of Archivists 27
(1): 8–21. |
| 1999 |
Magellan’s Chroniclers? American Anthropology’s
History in Micronesia. In American Anthropology and Micronesia, edited
by Robert C Kiste and Mac Marshall, 53–79. Honolulu: University
of Hawai‘i Press. |
| 1995 |
The End of History for the Edge of Paradise:
Economic Development and the Compacts of Free Association in American
Micronesia. In Colonial Inheritance: The Pacific Islands Since
Independence, edited by Brij V Lal and Hank Nelson, 83–93.
Brisbane: Pacific History Association. |
| 1994 |
Patterns of Colonialism in Micronesia to 1942.
In The History of the Pacific Islands in the Twentieth Century,
edited by Kerry R Howe, Brij V Lal, and Robert C Kiste, 93–118.
Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press; Auckland: Allen & Unwin. |
| 1994 |
Remaking Micronesia: A Reflection on the Cultural
and Strategic Politics of Economic Development in American Micronesia,
1945–1968. In Dangerous Liaisons: A Festschrift for Greg
Dening, edited by Donna Merwick, 135–156. Melbourne:
Melbourne University Press. |
| 1993 |
Sorcery, “Savage Memories,” and
the Edge of Commensurability for History in the Pacific. In Pacific
Islands History: Journeys and Transformations, edited by Brij
V Lal, 107–128. Canberra: The Journal of Pacific History. |
| 1993 |
Editor’s Introduction. The Contemporary
Pacific 5:vii–ix. |
| 1992 |
The Path Back to Pohnsakar: Luelen Bernart,
His Book, and the Practice of History on Pohnpei. Isla: A Journal
of Micronesian Studies 1 (1): 13–36. |
| 1990 |
“The Pleasure of Speculation and Conjecture”:
Early Euro-American Visions of Nan Madol and Their Relevance to
Post-Modern Archaeological Investigations. In Recent Advances
in Micronesian Archaeology: Proceedings of the Micronesian Archaeology
Conference held on Guam from September 9–12, 1987, edited
by Rosalind L Hunter-Anderson, 99–116. Special issue of Micronesica,
Supplement 2 (October). Mangilao, Guam: University of Guam Press. |
| 1989 |
Micronesia: Writing and Rewriting the Histories
of a Nonentity. Pacific Studies 12 (2): 1–21. |
| 1988 |
The Federated States of Micronesia: Unifying
the Remnants (with William Eperiam). In Politics in Micronesia,
vol 3, Politics of the Pacific Islands, edited by Ron
Crocombe and Ahmed Ali, 85–106. Revised edition. Suva, Fiji:
Institute of Pacific Studies, University of the South Pacific. |
| 1988 |
Another Side of Henry Nanpei. Journal of
Pacific History 23 (1): 36–51. |
| 1984 |
God vs. Gods: The First Years of the Micronesian
Mission on Ponape, 1852 to 1859. Journal of Pacific History 19
(1): 41–59. |
| 1983 |
Introduction to Recent Soviet Works on the Pacific. Soviet
Studies in History 21 (4): 5–13. |
| 1983 |
The Federated States of Micronesia: Unifying
the Remnants (with William Eperiam). In Politics in Micronesia,
vol 3, Politics in the Pacific Islands, edited by Ron
Crocombe and Ahmed Ali, 81–99. Suva, Fiji: Institute of Pacific
Studies, University of the South Pacific. |
| 1982 |
Myths, Strategies and Guilt in Micronesia. Perspectives [East-West
Center, Honolulu] Summer: 24–27. |
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