Stephen Mullins
Associate Professor
Education and the Arts
The University of Queensland
Australia
Biography
I teach history at all levels in the School of Education and the Arts. My principal research interest is maritime history, with special reference to colonial impacts, post-coloniality and resource management. I specialise in the history of the colonial tropical sedentary fishing industries, pearl-shelling, bêche-de-mer (trepang) and trochus, and the interconnections between those industries in the western Pacific, northern Australia, and Propinsi Maluku, Indonesia. I also research and publish in Torres Strait history and contemporary issues, Australian South Sea Islander history and contemporary issues, and maritime and coastal environmental history. I'm on a number of editorial boards, an Honorary Research Fellow of Queensland Museum, and currently serve on the History Advisor Panel of Australian South Sea Islanders (PJ).
Research Interest
Education and the Arts
