Nicholas Hoare

Nicholas Hoare serves as a Pacific History Research Fellow at the Department of Pacific Affairs, Australian National University (ANU), specializing in colonial and environmental histories of Francophone and Anglophone Pacific regions with focused expertise on phosphate islands and Pacific biography.

His educational foundation includes a PhD in History from ANU (awarded 12 April 2021) for the thesis Re-Mining Makatea: People, Politics, and Phosphate Rock.

Research interests span colonial history, environmental history, and Pacific biography, with regional emphasis on French Polynesia, Nauru, and broader Pacific Islands. He actively teaches Australia's 19th–20th century Oceania presence and WWII in Pacific Islands contexts.

Recent publications demonstrate concentrated engagement with phosphate island histories, nuclear legacies, and gender studies, featuring significant book review contributions that critically analyze Pacific environmental and biographical scholarship.

Hoare serves on the Journal of Pacific History Editorial Board (since June 2024) and previously collaborated with the Oceania Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography and Pacific Manuscripts Bureau. He is registered to supervise honours and HDR students in Pacific history and was Co-Investigator for the Developing a Pacific Australian Dictionary of Biography project (2020–2022).

His scholarly networks include active participation in the Pacific Manuscripts Bureau and Australian Dictionary of Biography initiatives, supporting Pacific-focused archival preservation and biographical research.