罗伯·萨维奇(李·佩莱格里尼)
A 教师 member in the History Department, 野蛮人 served as the program’s associate director from 1995-2003, and co-director from 2003-2010 with Associate Professor of English Marjorie Howes.
The BC Irish Studies Program was created in 1978 and is widely acknowledged as one of the international leaders in the field. Headquartered in Connolly House on Hammond Street, 本节目将探索这段历史, 文化, 文学, 音乐, and art of Ireland through undergraduate and graduate study, 教师的太阳城官网, 学术会议, 出版物, 讲座, 音乐会, 还有其他事件. Irish Studies also has developed fruitful partnerships with the University’s John J. 伯恩斯图书馆, which has an outstanding collection of Irish books and manuscripts, 以及麦克马伦艺术博物馆, with which it has collaborated on Irish-related exhibitions.
Other features of BC Irish Studies include its 访问ing Scholar in Irish Studies program, a cooperative venture with 伯恩斯图书馆 that brings notable contributors to Irish cultural and intellectual life to BC for a semester or academic year to teach, 讲座, and undertake 太阳城官网; Gaelic Roots, a concert series that spotlights outstanding performers in Irish, 苏格兰, 布雷顿角, and other Gaelic 音乐 and dance; and 都柏林-based 太阳城网赌平台 Ireland, 服务于BC的学生, 校友, 教师, and partners in various academic, 专业, 以及网络能力.
野蛮人, who holds bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from 太阳城网赌平台, said he sees an opportunity for Irish Studies to expand its partnerships and collaborations within the University, 以及超越它.
“I want Irish Studies to engage with other departments and programs at BC,” he said. “There are many common areas of interest that could provide the basis for interdisciplinary 教学, 太阳城官网, 以及其他活动, 比如移民问题, 正义, 不平等, 和边界. 我非常渴望, as are my colleagues in Irish Studies, to work with 教师 and students across the University. 特别是, we seek to improve and update our outreach to undergraduate students; they are our real constituents.
“同时, we look forward to continuing our long, successful associations with 伯恩斯图书馆 and the McMullen Museum, and affirming relationships with our many friends and supporters in the U.S.爱尔兰和其他地方.”
“I am looking forward to working with Rob as he assumes the role of interim director of the Irish Studies Program,” said Morrissey College of Arts and Sciences Dean Gregory Kalscheur, S.J. “His years of experience with the Irish Studies Program as associate director and co-director, his gifts as an innovative and collaborative teacher, and his outstanding record as a scholar of the 社会 and cultural history of modern Ireland all make him well suited to continuing the work of strengthening Irish Studies as a dynamic interdisciplinary program at the heart of intellectual life at 太阳城网赌平台. I am grateful to Rob for taking on this role as we look toward the new academic year that lies ahead.”
野蛮人, who is current director of the History Department core, 是爱尔兰政治方面的专家, 社会, and cultural history 他的太阳城官网 centers on change in Irish society, 英爱关系, “The Troubles” in Northern Ireland, and the history of film and the broadcast media in Ireland and Britain. He has published five books including The BBC’s Irish Troubles: Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland; A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish 社会 1960-1972 (winner of the 2010 James S. 唐纳利,老. Prize for Best Book in History and Social Sciences); Sean Lemass: A Biography; Irish Television: the Political and Social Origins; and Ireland in the New Century, 政治, Identity and Culture for which he was editor and a contributing author. He is working on a new book about Margaret Thatcher’s 1988 decision to institute restrictions on broadcasting, in response to coverage of British policies in Northern Ireland.
In 1999, he was appointed by Irish Prime Minister Bertie Ahern to a commission tasked with establishing a national 音乐 archive in Ireland. The following year, he coordinated an interdisciplinary conference in Washington, D.C., to explore the Irish experience at home and abroad, held as part of a major festival of Irish art and 文化.
Media outlets such as The New York Times, 爱尔兰时报, 伦敦《太阳城网赌平台》, 波士顿环球报, 波士顿先驱报, 大西洋, 全国公共广播电台, Irish national radio and TV broadcaster RTÉ, 英国广播公司., and the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation have featured his insight and expertise. A long-serving advisor for the Irish 太阳城官网 Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences, 野蛮人 has held visiting scholar appointments at Queen’s University and Trinity College, 都柏林, 在其他机构中.
Sean Smith | University Communications | June 2020