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Caitlin WhiteDr

caitlin.white@tcd.ie

Trinity College Dublin

Top skills

  • Research, Academic History
  • Research, History Education
  • Project Management, History Education

Fields of expertise

  • Social History
  • Cultural History
  • Remembrance / Collective Memory
  • Research on History Education

Offers

  • Teaching
  • Consultation
  • Research
  • Education & professional qualification
  • Advocacy/Outreach

Looks for

  • Project Partners
  • Cooperation
  • Contributions
  • Job opportunities
  • Speakers/Lecturers/Educators

About me

I am a public historian based in Ireland with a number of years experience in public engagement. My research has so far focused on memory and commemoration, but has recently moved to engagement methods and evaluation strategies within the Education sector.

Languages

  • English
  • Irish

Country

Ireland

Background information

Publications

‘Statue Wars: the curation of public space in the Irish Free State, 1921-39’, in Joanna Wodjon and Dorota Wiśniewska (eds.) History in Public Spaces (Philadelphia, 2023) [upcoming]. ‘Do Chum Glóire Dé agus Onóra na hÉireann: Irish Civil War Memory in Stone’, in Tommy Graham (ed) The Split: From Treaty to Civil War (Dublin, 2021). ‘The Role of the Public in Shaping New Collective Memories: The Irish Public and their Representation of History During and After the Irish Civil War of 1922-23’ in Joanna Wodjon and Dorota Wiśniewska (eds.) Public in Public History (Philadelphia, 2021). ‘An Irishwoman Abroad? The Truth of Kit Cavenaugh’ in Nolan, Lt. Col. Neil (ed.), The Irish Defence Forces Review (Dublin, 2015).

Experience

[April 2023 - present] - Research Fellow - Education, Trinity College Dublin [September 2022 – April 2023] - Occasional Lecturer - Irish Studies, University College Dublin [February 2020 - March 2022] - Teaching Assistant - History, Trinity College, Dublin [September 2019 - May 2021] - Scholars Ireland Tutor - Trinity Access Programme/Scholar’s Ireland

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