2020-21

Joel Herman

Joel Herman is a second year PhD researcher at Trinity College Dublin. His current research project, funded through a Trinity Provost Project Award, traces the revolutionary currents that flowed between Ireland, America, and Britain in the Age of Revolutions. He has previously published on the subjects of identity and patriotism in eighteenth-century Ireland and early America, and is particularly interested in the transnational dimensions of revolutionary conflicts in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world. Joel was recently named the A.C. Elias Irish-American Research Fellow for 2021 by the American Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies. The travel fellowship will fund a research visit to key New York archives where he will conduct research for his dissertation project, 'Revolutionary Currents: Ideas, Information, and the Imperial Public Sphere.