Dr Joanne Mancini

Biography

J. M. Mancini (Ph.D., M.A., Johns Hopkins; B.A., University of Virginia) is Senior Lecturer in History. Before coming to Maynooth in 2004, she taught in the Department of American Studies, University of Sussex and in the Department of History, University College Cork. She has held grants and fellowships from institutions including the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the Paul Mellon Centre and the AHRB (UK). Her academic awards include the 2012 Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Award (http://americanart.si.edu/pr/library/2012/frost_2012.pdf), for "Pedro Cambón's Asian Objects: A Transpacific Approach to Eighteenth-Century California;" the Smithsonian American Art Museum's 2008 Charles C. Eldredge Prize for Outstanding Scholarship in American Art (http://americanart.si.edu/pr/library/2008/pr_eldredge2008.pdf), for Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show (Princeton, 2005), and the Yasuo Sakakibara Prize (American Studies Association, 2002).  \ She takes an interest in communicating academic perspectives to wider audiences. In addition to regular contributions to Newstalk Radio's Talking History, she has appeared on Irish and international programmes including BBC World Service - World Questions, RTÉ Television's live 2016 and 2012 U.S. Presidential election specials, Prime Time, Today with Sean O'Rourke, and the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities show BackStory, broadcast on National Public Radio. Her publications include Pre-Modernism (http://press.princeton.edu/titles/7983.html) and Architecture and Armed Conflict (Routledge, 2015), edited with Keith Bresnahan (https://www.routledge.com/Architecture-and-Armed-Conflict-The-Politics-of-Destruction/Mancini-Bresna...). Her new book, Art and War in the Pacific World, is forthcoming from the University of California Press. Dr Mancini's current teaching includes: HY240 (American history introductory survey, from the origins of the Revolution to the Civil War) HY241 (American history introductory survey, from the Civil War until recent times) HY383 (Environment and culture in American history) HY373 (American cultural history)

Research Interest

History