Gavin Foster

Entered Notre Dame: Fall 2002

Interests
Concentration: modern Ireland. Additional areas of interest: Irish America; modern Britain and France;labor studies; republicanism; history of memory; comparative dimensions and theories of nationalism, class, revolution, and civil war

Dissertation
The Social Structures and Cultural Politics of the Irish Civil War
Advisor: Jim Smyth

Publications

  • "In the Shadow of the Split: Writing the Irish Civil War" in Field Day Review, No. 2, 2006

Teaching Experience

  • Developed and taught HIST 30437, "Ireland: From Famine to Independence" (Spring 2006)
  • Teaching Assistant for Western Civilization II; Irish-American Experience;British History 1660-1800; Irish History 1600-1800 (2003-2005)

Contact
Email: gfoster@nd.edu