Dr Max Quanchi
Honorary Research Senior Fellow in History
Books
Quanchi, Max and Shekleton, Max (2015). Postcards from Oceania: port towns, portraits and the picturesque during the colonial era. Suva, Fiji: USP Press.
Rose, Samantha, Quanchi, Max and Moore, Clive (2009). A national strategy for the study of the Pacific. Brisbane, Qld, Australia: Australian Association for the Advancement of Pacific Studies.
Quanchi, Max and Robson, John (2009). The A to Z of the discovery and exploration of the Pacific Islands. Lanham, Maryland, USA: Scarecrow Press.
Moore, Clive, Quanchi, Max and Bennett, Sharon (1997). Australian South Sea Islanders: a curriculum Resource for primary schools. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian Agency for International Development, in association with the Department of Education, Queensland.
Moore, Clive, Quanchi, Max and Bennett, Sharon (1997). Australian South Sea Islanders: a curriculum resource for secondary schools. Brisbane, QLD, Australia: Australian Agency for International Development, in association with the Department of Education, Queensland.
Book Chapters
Quanchi, Max (2019). Melanesia: A region and a history. The Melanesian World. (pp. 63-76) edited by Eric Hirsch and Will Rollason. London, United Kingdom: Taylor and Francis. doi: 10.4324/9781315529691
Quanchi, Max (2017). Tropicalisation and representation in Oceania: or a path into the deep, dark jungle. Trading traditions: the role of art in the Pacific’s expansive exchange networks. (pp. 23-32) edited by Karen Stevensen. Suva, Fiji: University of South Pacific Press.
Quanchi, Max (2016). Nauru. Pacific ways: government and politics in the Pacific Islands. (pp. 148-162) edited by Levine, Stephen. Wellington, New Zealand: Victoria University Press.
Quanchi, Max (2015). Thomas McMahon's Pacific neighbours; an early Australian photojournalist. Shifting focus: colonial Australian photography 1860-1920. (pp. 218-229) edited by Anne Maxwell and Josephine Croci. Melbourne, VIC, Australia: Australian Scholarly Publishing.
Quanchi, Max (2014). Geschichte der fotografie der Pazifischen Inseln. Blick ins Paradies: historische fotografien aus Polynesien. (pp. 67-86) edited by Wulf Kopke and Bernd Schmelz. Hamburg, Germany: Museum für Völkerkunde.
Quanchi, Max (2011). Towards a single visual history of New Zealand, Australia and the Pacific. Early New Zealand photography: images and essays. (pp. 166-167) edited by Angela Wanhalla and Erika Wolf. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago Press.
Quanchi, Max (2010). Photographic Representations of Pacific Peoples. Berg Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion. (pp. 243-251) edited by Joanne Bubolz Eicher. Oxford: Berg.
Quanchi, Max (2010). ‘It’s Our Turn to Give Orders’. Walkabout’s View of a Nation in the Making. Living history and evolving democracy. (pp. 110-116) edited by Ian Maddocks, E. P. Wolfers and Ron Crocombe. Port Moresby: UPNG Press.
Quanchi, Max (2010). Merl La Voy: an American photographer in the South Seas. Coast to coast: case histories of modern Pacific crossings. (pp. 117-137) edited by Prue Ahrens and Chris Dixon. Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Cochrane, Susan and Quanchi, Max (2007). Hunting the collectors. Hunting the Collectors: Pacific Collections in Australian Museums, Art Galleries and Archives. (pp. 1-16) Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Journal Articles
Quanchi, Max and Hawkes, Kathleen (2023). Photography in New Caledonia: constructed and casual views of colonial life. Journal of Pacific History, 58 (2), 116-140. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2022.2087612
Quanchi, Max (2022). Exhibition - APT10; The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art. Journal of Pacific History, 58 (1), 81-86. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2022.2072365
Halter, Nicholas and Quanchi, Max (2022). Boosting the Frontier: Australian Settler Colonialism in the Pacific 1860s–1900s. Australian Historical Studies, 53 (3), 415-432. doi: 10.1080/1031461X.2021.2021961
Quanchi, Max (2020). Oceania: Curated by Nicholas Thomas and Peter Brunt. London, Royal Academy of Arts, 29 September–10 December 2018. Journal of Pacific History, 55 (3), 432-435. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2019.1659530
Ahrens, Prue, Quanchi, Max and Waldroup, Heather (2020). Special issue: Photography in the Pacific Part 1. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, 8 (1), 3-6. doi: 10.1386/NZPS_00011_2
Quanchi, Max (2020). 'Record of my journeyings in the coral sea': Randolph bedford's 1906 album of the Solomon Islands. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, 8 (1), 39-56. doi: 10.1386/NZPS_00014_1
Quanchi, Max (2020). Review of 'Tulagi: Pacific Outpost of British Empire' by Clive Moore. Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 8 (1), 127-129. doi: 10.1386/nzps_00027_5
Quanchi, Max (2018). Bearing witness: essays in honour of Brij V. Lal. Journal of Pacific History, 53 (4), 527-529. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2018.1542653
Quanchi, Max (2017). Review of No. 1 Neighbour; Art in Papua New Guinea 1966-2016. Journal of Pacific History, 52 (4), 530-532. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2017.1370973
Quanchi, Max (2016). Review of 'The Pacific War: aftermath, remembrance and culture' Edited by Christina Twomey and Ernest Koh. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, 4 (1), 95-97.
Quanchi, Max (2016). Review of 'Pacific futures: projects politics and interests' Edited by Will Rollason. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, 4 (1), 95-97.
Quanchi, Max (2016). Review of 'World War I, Fiji and Ratu Sukuna: an exhibition' curated by Larry Thomas. The Journal of Pacific History, 51 (1), 55-56.
Quanchi, Max (2016). Acknowledging local heroes: the Laperouse Museum in Albi, France. The Journal of Pacific History, 51 (1), 48-51. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2015.1120910
Quanchi, Max (2016). Ma'afu, Prince of Tonga, Chief of Fiji: the life and times of Fiji's first Tui Lau. Journal of Pacific History, 51 (1), 85-86. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2016.1159119
Quanchi, Max (2016). Learning-by-looking: for example, at Peoples of all Nations; European education and serial encyclopaedia. Pacific Geographies, 45 (January/February 2016), 11-16. doi: 10.23791/451116
Quanchi, Max (2015). Review of 'Diminishing conflicts in Asia and the Pacific: why some subside and others don’t' Edited by Edward Aspinall, Robin Jeffrey and Anthony J. Regan. Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, 3 (2), 221-223. doi: 10.1386/nzps.3.2.207_5
Quanchi, Max (2015). Imaging the USA’s Pacific empire. History of Photography, 39 (3), 213-226. doi: 10.1080/03087298.2015.1067055
Quanchi, Max (2014). 'The Pacific Islands: environment and society'. Journal of Pacific History, 49 (1), 127-128. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2014.885174
Quanchi, Max (2014). Kanaka portraits: Indentured labour in Colonial Australia. Pacific Arts, 13 (2), 33-44.
Quanchi, Max (2014). Norman H. Hardy: book illustrator and artist. Journal of Pacific History, 49 (2), 214-233. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2014.906298
Hawkes, Kathleen and Quanchi, Max (2013). From the archives: photography collections of the Archives of New Caledonia. The Journal of Pacific History, 48 (4), 484-493. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2013.863173
Quanchi, Max (2013). Review of 'Light on Darkness? Missionary Photography of Africa in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries' by T. Jack Thompson. American Historical Review, 118 (3), 976-977. doi: 10.1093/ahr/118.3.976
Quanchi, Max (2013). Australia (not) in the Pacific. Agora, 48 (2), 28-35.
Quanchi, Max (2013). Review of Oceania under Steam: sea transport and the cultures of colonialism c 1870-1914 by Francis Steel. South Pacific Journal of Philosophy and Culture, 11 (2010-2012), 67-68.
Quanchi, Max (2012). Review of 'Drua: the wave of fire' Co-directed by Vilsoni Hereniko, Peter Rockford Espiritu and Igelese Ete. Journal of Pacific History, 47 (4), 519-521. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2012.730033
Quanchi, Max (2011). Pacific history: the long view. The Journal of Pacific History, 46 (2), 251-256. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2011.607274
Quanchi, Max (2011). Oceanic Encounters: Exchange, Desire and Violence Edited by Margaret Jolly, Serge Tcherkézoff and Darrell Tryon. Pacific Affairs, 84 (2), 411-412.
Quanchi, Max (2011). Twelve Days at Nuku Hiva: Russian Encounters and Mutiny in the South Pacific by Elena Govor. The Contemporary Pacific, 23 (1), 258-260. doi: 10.1353/cp.2011.0018
Quanchi, Max (2010). Old and new histories. Agora, 45 (4), 76-81.
Quanchi, Max (2010). The Pacific by Donald B. Freeman. The Journal of Pacific History, 45 (1), 160-161. doi: 10.1080/00223344.2010.484185
Quanchi, Max (2010). Review of 'Violence and Colonial Dialogue: The Australian-Pacific Indentured Labour Trade' by Tracey Banivanua-Mar. Journal of Social History, 43 (4), 1113-1114. doi: 10.1353/jsh.0.0336
Quanchi, Max and Boglio, Jean-Louis (2010). Compelled to record my impressions: An Artist's View of the Pacific Shipping World. Pacific Arts, 9, 23-29.
Quanchi, Max (2006). The imaging of Samoa in illustrated magazines and serial encyclopedias in the early 20th-century. Journal of Pacific History, 41 (2), 207-217. doi: 10.1080/00223340600826110
Quanchi, Max (2006). Visual histories and photographic evidence. Journal Of Pacific History, 41 (2), 165-173. doi: 10.1080/00223340600826052
Quanchi, Max (2006). Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians. By Jane Lydon. Durham, NC, and London, Duke University Press, 2005. 303 pp., maps, illus., refs, bibliog., index. ISBN 0-8223-3572-7 (pb). US$23.95.. Journal Of Pacific History, 41 (2), 261-262. doi: 10.1080/00223340600826276
Moore, C. R. and Quanchi, M (2002). Review of Refined White, Queensland Museum, Brisbane, regional and interstate 2001-2002; and Embarquement pour le Queensland; Des Loyaltiens en terre australienne (Across the Coral sea: Loyalty islanders in Queensland) Bibliothque Bernheim, Noumea a. Journal of Pacific History, XXXVII (1), 124-126.
Quanchi, Max and Moore, Clive (2002). (Book Review)'Refined White', Queensland Museum, Brisbane, 2001-2002. Journal of Pacific History, 37 (1), 124-126. doi: 10.1080/00223340220139324
Quanchi, M and Moore, C (2002). (Book Review) 'Embarquement pour le Queensland, Des Loyaltiens en terre australienne', Museum of tropical Queensland, Townsville, Bibliotheque Bernheim, Noumea and Musee d'Easo, Lifou, Loyalty Islands. Journal of Pacific History, 37 (1), 124-126.
Thesis
Quanchi, Max (1994). Photography, representation and cross-cultural encounters : seeking reality in Papua 1880-1930. PhD Thesis, School of History, Philosophy, Religion and Classics, The University of Queensland. doi: 10.14264/09adf79