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Max Quanchi has taught Pacific History at Queensland University of Technology, University of Papua New Guinea and University of South Pacific. His research is on the history of photography in the Pacific.
He was a founding member of the Executive of the PHA and AAAPS and is on the Editorial Boards of Journal of Pacific History (2007) and the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies.
He was guest editor for special issues on photography for Pacific Studies (1997), the Journal of Pacific History (2007) and the Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies (2020), and since 1996, he has convened panels on photography at the biannual Pacific History Association conferences. In 2007, his monograph, Photographing Papua, focused on the colonial frontier in Papua New Guinea.
His recent books include Postcards from Oceania; Plantations, Pirogues and Port Towns with Max Shekleton (2015), Postcards from Colonial Fiji with Max Shekleton (2019), Tales from the Sak sak: Doing Nasho in New Guinea (2020) and Glorious Company; The Polynesia Company in Fiji and Melbourne (2022).
Articles since the 1990s on the history of photography appear in the following journals: History of Photography, History Focus, Pacific Arts, Journal of Pacific Studies, Agora, Australian Historical Studies, Journal of Australian Studies, Journal of New Zealand and Pacific Studies, Journal of Pacific History, The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (2005), Berg Encyclopaedia of Fashion and Dress (2009), and Coast to Coast (2010).
He was born in rural Victoria in 1945 and studied at Frankston Teachers College, Monash University and the University of Queensland. He retired to Brisbane and now does some casual teaching, barracks for AFL Brisbane Lions, enjoys Mali blues music, red wine and art-house movies and does guest speaker trips on P&O cruises in the Pacific.