Our fellows/postdocs
Maurice J Casey is a Research Fellow on this AHRC-funded project, working alongside Dr Tom Hulme, Dr Leanne McCormick and Dr Charlie Lynch. Maurice specialises in radical history, transnational history and queer history. He is interested in how each can transform our understanding of Ireland and its diaspora in the early 20th century.
Dr Clara Fischer works in the areas of social and political theory, feminist theory, and gender politics. She is a Vice-Chancellor Illuminate Fellow at the School of History, Anthropology, Philosophy and Politics at Queen’s University Belfast.
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Susannah is an anthropologist and ethnomusicologist, and holds an ESRC/NINE postdoctoral fellowship in the Anthropology department at QUB. Her work looks at sonic media archives in Tunis, where she uses ethnography to study how sound and music are categorised, recorded, mediated and sensed across the city.
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A psychologist by training, Connair Russell is a Research Fellow on the Explaining Atheism project working alongside Dr. Jon Lanman and collaborators at other institutions. The interdisciplinary Explaining Atheism project looks to examine the causal factors underlying non-belief, putting popular and scientific theories of atheism to the test.
Dr Emma Soye specialises in ethnographic research on migration and social cohesion. Her Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship focuses on public transport as a site of social contact between diverse groups in Northern Ireland.
Ka Ka Katie Tsang is a Research Fellow on an ESRC funded collaboration between University College London, the Evidence for Policy and Practice Information and Co-ordinating Centre, University of Glasgow, the Wales Centre for Public Policy and Queens University Belfast known collectively as IPPO.
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Dr Usher is the R.J. Hunter Digital Fellow working on the Ulster Settlers Database project, funded by the Royal Irish Academy in collaboration with Maynooth University.
Yana Volkova graduated from Odesa I.I.Mechnikov National University (Ukraine), Department of International Relations. Her current research is dedicated to comparative analyses of technologies of instrumentalization of transborder ethnic ties applied by different kin-states, including Turkey and Russia.
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Lisa Claire Whitten is Research Fellow on this ESRC-funded project. The purpose of this research is to identify and explain the consequences of new governance arrangements established in Northern Ireland as a result of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union – ‘Brexit’.
In this ESRC-funded Postdoctoral Fellowship, Dr Briony Widdis will survey collections from the Arctic, Africa, Asia, the Americas and Oceania in museums, examine their significance to Northern Irish identities in the present, and undertake collaborative research bridging museums, academics and communities.
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