About me
| Twitter link | @MurphyRasher |
Member Details
| Full Name | Sherra Murphy (Professional Historian) |
| Membership Type | Professional Historian |
Experience
| Education | PhD, School of History and Archives, University College Dublin September 2015 Thesis title: The Natural History Museum, Dublin, 1840—1870; networks, culture and natural knowledge in mid-nineteenth century Ireland Master of Fine Arts (Painting emphasis with focus on critical theory), University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, June 2000 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting Major, Summa Cum Laude, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM May 1996 |
| Employment | Lecturer in Critical and Cultural Studies Lecturer in Visual Culture |
| Committees & Associations | Irish Association of Professional Historians American Conference of Irish Studies Society for the History of Natural History Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland Irish Museums Association |
| Awards | Recipient of the 2018 DELTA Award for excellence in learning, teaching, and assessment from the National Forum for teaching and Learning in Higher Education |
Publications
| Book Chapters | ‘The Learned Gentlemen are in Town: the British Association Meeting of 1857 in Dublin’s Popular Press’, in Science and Technology in 19th Century Ireland, eds. Adelman, Julia and Agnew, Eaodain. (Dublin, Four Courts Press) 2011 |
| Peer Reviewed Journals | ‘Natural history, nineteenth-century Ireland and the Canadian Arctic; Sir Francis Leopold McClintock’s collections at the Natural History Museum, Dublin,’ publication pending in The Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, Summer 2018 Situating the Natural History Museum: (Re)Placing a Dublin Institution Into Context, in Perspectives: Anthology of IADT Research and Practice, (Dublin, Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art, Design and Technology) 2013 |
| Other Journals | ‘They’re Not Going to Change it Are They? The Museum of Natural History Dublin as Material Culture.’ Circa 124 Summer 2008 |
| Reviews | Review of Dignified Kings Play Chess on Fine Green Silk, Karl Grimes, National Museum and Gallery of Photography Circa 122 Winter 2007 |
| Other | Five catalogue essays for Literary Lives: Portraits from the Crawford Art Gallery and Abbey Theatre, Ireland, published September 2010 My Favourite Stuffed Bear in Sunday Miscellany: a selection from 2006 – 2008, Ni Anluain, Cliodnha, ed. (Dublin, RTE 2008) Conferences American Conference for Irish Studies, 2018, University College Cork, As It May be Rare, I Have Shot It For You: Donors to the Natural History Museum in the mid-nineteenth century, June 2018 Widening Participation: European Access Network 2016, University College Dublin, Why Are You Making Me Do This Assignment? Assessment as a Tool for Inclusion, May 2016 Universal Design for Learning, AHEAD National Conference, Dublin Castle, What Happens in My Teaching Through Trial, Error and Consultation: Access and Curriculum Design, March 2015 Visualising Antiquarianism in Ireland, Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin, The Polymathic Antiquarian; George Victor DuNoyer’s Multi-Disciplinary Imagery September 2009 Science and Technology in 19th Century Ireland, The Royal Irish Academy, Dublin; The Learned Gentleman Are in Town; the British Association and the Natural History Museum in Dublin’s popular press, 1857, July 2009 Post–Graduate Research Conference, University College Dublin; Specimens and Specificity: The Collections of the Natural History Museum Dublin as Material Culture, February 2008 Seeing Things: Irish Studies and Visual Culture, University of Limerick; Drawing Ireland: the Visual Record and the Museum of Natural History Dublin, April 28-29, 2007 Re–Thinking the Everyday: Approaches to Material Culture, National College of Art & Design, |