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Mary N. Harris (Chair)
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Mary N. Harris |
Senior Lecturer, Department of History, National
University of Ireland at Galway. Mary Harris was born in
Cork and took her BA (Irish and Spanish), MA (Medieval
Irish) and Higher Diploma in Education at University College
Cork. Having worked in Grenada, West Indies, she took
undergraduate studies in modern History in Cork, and went on
to take her doctorate in Cambridge on the Catholic Church
and the foundation of the Northern Irish State. In 1992 she
took up a lectureship in Irish Studies at the University of
North London. She moved to the National University of
Ireland, Galway, in 1996, and is now senior lecturer in
History with teaching interests in modern Irish history and
Colonial Spanish America. Her current research focuses on
twentieth-century Ireland, with particular reference to
church-state relations and the Northern Ireland conflict.
Her recent publications include articles on Irish writings
on Latin America and Irish images of religious conflict in
Mexico in the 1920s. She is a member of a thematic workgroup
on Europe and the World as part of CLIOHRES, a European
network of excellence focusing on historical research.
Jorge L. Chinea
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Jorge L. Chinea |
Associate Professor, Center for
Chicano-Boricua Studies, Wayne State University. Born in
Puerto Rico and raised in Spanish Harlem,
New York City, Jorge L. Chinea holds a Ph.D.
degree from the
University of
Minnesota, where he specialized in colonial
Latin American history. He was been awarded fellowships and
grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities,
Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the Society for Irish Latin
American Studies. Recognized in the 1996 edition of
Who’s Who in the Midwest, he is the recipient at
Wayne
State
University of a President’s Award for
Excellence in Teaching (1999) and a Board of Governors
Faculty Recognition Award (2006). His book,
Race and Labor in the Hispanic Caribbean: The
West Indian Worker Experience in
Puerto Rico, 1800-1850,
was published in 2005 by the University Press of Florida.
Dr. Chinea has been guest editor of a special issue of
Irish Migration Studies in Latin America dedicated to
Ireland and the Caribbean (5:3, November 2007).
Peter Hulme
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Peter Hulme |
Professor, Department of Literature, Film, and Theatre
Studies, University of Essex. Peter
Hulme read Spanish at Leeds and took his doctorate at
Essex in Literature. He has taught at Essex since 1975. He
was closely involved with the various Essex Sociology of
Literature projects and their many publications. His
research interests centre on the relationships between
literature, travel writing,
anthropology and colonialism, especially in the Caribbean,
and on postcolonial studies in its widest sense. He is
currently working on the project “American Tropics: Towards
a Literary Geography”, which is funded by the Arts &
Humanities Research Council. Dr. Hulme
is the author of Colonial Encounters: Europe and the
Native Caribbean, 1492-1797 (1986, paperback 1992) and
Remnants of Conquest: The Island Caribs and Their
Visitors, 1877-1998 (2000), and joint editor of Wild
Majesty: Encounters with Caribs from Columbus to the Present
Day (1992), Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory
(1994), Cannibalism and the Colonial World (1998),
'The Tempest'
and Its Travels (2000), and The Cambridge Companion
to Travel Writing (2002).
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Previous Selection Committee
Members
2007-2008: Maureen Murphy (chair), Piaras Mac Éinrí,
Guillermo O'Donnell
2006-2007:
Laura P.Z. Izarra (chair),
Kerby A. Miller, Angus Mitchell
2005-2006:
Thomas Ihde (chair), Rosa González-Casademont, Peadar Kirby
2004-2005:
Kevin Whelan (chair), Hilda Sabato,
Oliver Marshall
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