Our Team
The Centre for Environmental Humanities consists of a broad team interdisciplinary group of researchers. Click on a team member's image below to read their bio and about their research interests.
Professor of Environmental Humanities
Research interests: environmental humanities, translational humanities and maritime history
Poul Holm
Principal Investigator, ERC Advanced Grant
Project Officer, ERC Advanced Grant
Manages the administration for ERC Advanced Grant, IMPACT-EV, the COST / Oceans Past Platform, H-MAP, the Digital Arts and Humanities funded PhD programme.
Joanne Darcy
Project Officer, ERC Advanced Grant
School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research interests: Russia's place in the global process of wetland transformation during the modern period.
Dr. Katja Bruisch
Assistant Professor of Environmental History
Assistant Professor of Geography, Department of History, University of Texas, Arlington.
Research interests: human geography, geographical information systems, digital humanities, environmental humanities.
Dr. Charles Travis
Visiting Research Fellow
Marie Curie Individual Fellow (2016-2018), School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research Interests:Research Interests: Environmental History, Climate History, Climate of the North Atlantic, Eurasia and the Near East in the Ancient...
Dr. Francis Ludlow
Marie Curie Individual Fellow (2016-2018)
Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub, Dr. Phil. (American Studies, University College Dublin, 2009)
Research Interests:religion and environmental humanities, American studies, public humanities, STEAM (STEM+Art).
Dr. Marisa Ronan
Research fellow in Environmental Humanities.
Associate Professor of Geography, Northern Michigan University
Research Interests: human geography, geographical information systems, digital humanities, environmental humanities.
Dr. Robert Legg
Visiting Research Fellow
Political and historical geographer
Research Interests:Political geography, international boundary studies, historical cartography, the Middle East, and modern Irish and British history
Dr. Kieran Rankin
Research Fellow
Research Fellow, Centre for Environmental Humanities, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin.
Research Interests: Social, historical, political and cultural influences shaping environment-society relationships...
Dr. Ruth Brennan
Research Fellow
Post-doctoral researcher in applied marine ecology
Research Interests: the assessment of the health of our marine ecosystem to find holistic, interdisciplinary approaches in managing human pressure...
Dr. Cordula Scherer
Research Fellow
Research Assistant, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research Interests: Digital humanities, digital heritage practices, musicology, history.
Richard Breen
Research Assistant
Researcher and Data Manager
Research Interests: Data management, Psychotheraphy, historical research.
John Nicholls
Data Manager
PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research Interests: Natural resource management systems, history of forestry and maritime resource use, Irish history, land use, Irish maritime history.
Margaret Duff-Garvey
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research Interests: Exploring historical environmental data sources through Statistical analysis including computer programming.
Al Matthews
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research Interests: Environmental history, marine environmental history, early modern history...
Patrick Hayes
PhD Candidate
PhD Candidate, Research Assistant, School of Histories and Humanities, TCD
Research Interests: Coastal Cultural Heritage, cultural policy, urban heritage preservation.