Senior Lecturer in Politics
Robert Nicole is an inter-disciplinary scholar with an academic background in Literature, History, and Politics. He is a proud graduate of the University of the South Pacific (BA and MA) and the University of Canterbury (PhD). Following his first term of service to USP from 1989 to 2006, Robert moved to New Zealand where he held positions at the University of Canterbury (2006-2008) and the Ministry of Pacific Island Affairs (2008-2011). He joined SGDIA in 2013.
Tel: 323-2086
Email: robert.nicole(at)usp.ac.fj
Office: 014-243
Research Interests
- History of Fiji
- Resistance Movements
- Politics of International Trade
- Francophone Oceania
- Family History
Books
- In Press: The Bloodline Chronicles. (A family History).
- 2011 - Disturbing History: Resistance in Early Colonial Fiji. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- 2001 - Niu Waves: Contemporary Writing From Oceania. Edited by Robert Nicole. Suva: Pacific Writing Forum and Oceania Centre for Arts and Culture.
- 2000 - The Word, the Pen, and the Pistol: Literature and Power in Tahiti. New York: State University of New York Press.
Selected Articles
- 2010 - With Peter Hempenstall and Terence Wesley-Smith, “E-learning and the Remaking of Pacific Studies: an Evolutionary Tale” in Remaking Area Studies: Teaching and Learning Across Asia and the Pacific. John Goss and Terence Wesley-Smith, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
- 2006 - “Introduction” in Boenando, a play by Jean-Marie Tjibaou. Suva: Pacific Writing Forum.
- 2004 - “Woodland Fairies, Mekes, and Cricket Clubs: How Luveniwai Subverted Fiji’s Colonial Order” in SPAN. Vol. 53 (April).
- 2000 - “Indigenous Writing in Tahiti” in The Pacific Islands: An Encyclopedia. Lal, Brij V., and Kate Fortune, eds. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
- 1999 - “Resisting Orientalism: Pacific Literature in French” in Inside Out: Literature, Cultural Politics, and Identity in the New Pacific. Vilsoni Hereniko and Rob Wilson, eds. Boulder: Rowman and Littlefield Publishers, Inc..
- 1998 - “SPICOL: Building a Learning Community Through Simulations” in HERDSA News. November.
Selected Book Reviews
- 2012 - In The Journal of Pacific History. Volume 47:2 (April). Review of Viviane Fayaud’s Le Paradis Autour de Paul Gauguin.
- 2005 - In The Journal of the Polynesian Society. Volume 114:2 (June). Review of Noenoe K. Silva’s Aloha Betrayed: Native Hawaiian Resistance to American Colonialism.
- 2003 - In Asia Pacific Viewpoint Volume 44:2 (August). Review of John D. Kelly and Martha Kaplan’s Represented Communities: Fiji and World Decolonization.
- 2003 - With Gina Balawanilotu and Anurag Subramani, in The Contemporary Pacific. Volume 15:1. Review of Robert Borovsky (ed.) Remembrance of Pacific Pasts: An Invitation the Remake History.
