Expertise

Members of the international advisory board of the Irish Chancery Project pictured at the final meeting held on 13 May 2011 in Trinity College, Dublin. Back row (L-R): Prof. Sean Duffy (TCD); Prof. Robin Frame (Durham); Dr Peter Crooks (TCD); Dr Elizabeth Matthew (Reading); Prof. Chris Given-Wilson (St Andrews). Front row (L-R): Dr Brendan Smith (Bristol) Dr David Ditchburn (TCD).

Staff

Trinity has over twenty full-time members of the academic staff who contribute to the activities of the Medieval History Research Centre and a wide network of scholars and collaborators in institutions inside and outside Ireland.

• Philippa Byrne (Assistant Professor in Medieval History)
• Ann Buckley (Honorary Research Fellow)
• David Ditchburn (Associate Professor in Medieval History; Director)
• Peter Crooks (Associate Professor in Medieval History)
• Seán Duffy (Professor of Medieval Irish & Insular History)
• Adrian Empey (Honorary Research Fellow)
• Simon Egan (Assistant Professor in Medieval History)
• Poul Holm (Professor of Environmental History)
• Anna Chahoud (Professor of Latin)
• Mark Hennessy (Assistant Professor in Geography)
• Ruth Mazzo Karras (Lecky Professor of History)
• Catherine Lawless (Assistant Professor in Gender Studies)
• Francis Ludlow (Associate Professor in Medieval Environmental History)
• Anna McSweeney (Assistant Professor in the History of Art & Architecture)
• Bernard Meehan (formerly Keeper of Manuscripts, Library)
• Christine Meek (Fellow Emeritus, History)
• Brid McGrath (Palaeography)
• Rachel Moss (Associate Professor in History of Art)
• Benjamin Savill (Assistant Professor in Medieval History)
• Katharine Simms (Fellow Emeritus, History)
• Roger Stalley (Fellow Emeritus, History of Art)
• Immo Warntjes (Ussher Assistant Professor in Medieval History)

Postdoctoral Researchers

• Dr Elizabeth Biggs (Government of Ireland-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-24: Medieval Irish Exchequer, ‘Gold Seam’ Research Fellow, Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury Phase II)
• Dr Lynn Kilgallon (Government of Ireland-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020-24: Medieval Irish Exchequer, ‘Gold Seam’ Research Fellow, Beyond 2022: Ireland’s Virtual Record Treasury Phase II)
• Dr Nicole Volmering (SFI-IRC Research Assistant Professor, 2022–26: Early Irish Hands: The Development of Writing in Early Ireland)

Former Staff and Postdoctoral Researchers

• Dr Lucy Allen-Goss (IRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellow, 2019–21: Women's Reproductive Dysfunctions: Miscarriage, Abortion, Stillbirth and Infertility in Medieval England)
• Dr Simon Egan (Temporary Assistant Professor in Medieval History, 2019‒21), now Lecturer in History at Queen’s University Belfast
• Dr C. Philipp E. Nothaft (EU Horizon 2020, Marie Sklodowska-Curie Individual Fellowship, 2021‒3)
• Dr Niall Ó Súilleabháin (IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, 2020–22 and Temporary Assistant Professor in Medieval History, 2022‒3, now at Université de Poitiers/Centre Nationale de la Recherche Scientifique
• Dr Benjamin Savill (Temporary Assistant Professor in Medieval History, 2019‒21), now Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin
• Dr Beth Spacey (Temporary Teaching Fellow in Medieval History, 2017), now lecturer at the University of Queensland, Australia
• Dr Thomas W. Smith (Temporary Assistant Professor in Medieval History, 2015–17), now at Rugby School, England

External Associates

• Dr Sparky Booker (Dublin City University)
• Dr Laura Cleaver (London)
• Professor Robin Frame (Durham)
• Professor Chris Given-Wilson (St Andrews)
• Dr Stephen Harrison (Glasgow)
• Dr Aly Macdonald (Aberdeen)
• Dr Elizabeth Matthew (Reading)
• Professor Brendan Smith (Bristol)
• Dr Colin Veach (Hull)