Former Research Fellows

Iain Atack

Assistant Professor in International Peace Studies, School of Religion

Iain Atack holds degrees in philosophy, politics and peace studies from Trinity College Dublin, the University of Toronto and the University of Ulster. He was formerly the Coordinator of the M.Phil. programme in International Peace Studies at the Irish School of Ecumenics, Trinity College Dublin and teaches courses on “Conflict Resolution and Nonviolence”, “The Politics of Development” and “The Politics of Peace and Conflict”. He is the author of The Ethics of Peace and War (Edinburgh University Press, 2005), Nonviolence in Political Theory (Edinburgh University Press, 2012) and journal articles on various aspects of non-violence, peace-building and development ethics.  He is a member of the board of Afri (Action from Ireland), an Irish peace and human rights NGO.  He is also an active member of the Irish Forum for Peace in Sri Lanka.

Rosemary Byrne

Founding Director of Centre for Post-Conflict Justice and Associate Professor in International and Human Rights Law, School of Law

Rosemary Byrne (B.A. Columbia, 1986, J.D. Harvard, 1992) is Associate Professor of International and Human Rights Law. She is currently the chair of the Scientific Committee of the EU Fundamental Rights Agency and serves on the Board of Advisors for the South Asia Democratic Forum. Recently, she completed a five-year term as a Human Rights Commissioner for the Irish Human Rights Commission, which is the national human rights institution established in the aftermath of the Good Friday Agreement. She has been a Visiting Professor of International Law at the Paris School of International Affairs, Institut d'Études Politiques (Sciences-Po) and at the China-EU School of Law, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing.

Anne Holohan

Associate Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology

Anne Holohan is lecturer in Sociology. A graduate of Trinity College Dublin, the London School of Economics and the University of California, Los Angeles, her research and teaching interests include organizations, information and communication technologies, media and communications, conflict resolution and disaster management, and globalization. Her most recent book is Networks of Democracy (Stanford, 2005). Until January 2006 she was Marie Curie International Fellow at the University of Trento, Italy. 

John Horne

Professor of Modern European History and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy

John earned his D.Phil at the University of Sussex. and has worked on the history of modern France and also of modern warfare, with a special emphasis on the First World War. He is a member of the board of the Research Centre of the Historial de la Grande Guerre, Péronne (France) and is also on the French National Commission for the Commemoration of the Great War. He was the founding  Director of the Centre for War Studies, Trinity College Dublin. He has authored nearly eighty chapters and articles, many relating to the history of war. His books include, Labour at War: France and Britain, 1914-1918, (Clarendon Press, 1991); (ed), State, Society and Mobilization in Europe during the First World War (Cambridge University Press, 1997; translated into Chinese by the Beijing Institute of Technology Press, 2008);  and (with Alan Kramer), German Atrocities, 1914: A History of Denial (Yale, 2001), which was translated into German (2003) and French (2005). He has recently published the Blackwell Companion to the First World War (2010), Vers la guerre totale: le tournant de 1914-1915 (Paris, 2010), and with Robert Gerwarth, War in Peace: Paramilitary Violence in Europe after the First World War (Oxford University Press, 2012).  His edited book (with Edward Madigan), Towards Commemoration: Ireland in the Decade of the Great War, is forthcoming with the Royal Irish Academy. In 2012-13, he will be a Fellow of the Freiburg Institute for Advanced Study in Germany.

Alan Kramer

Professor of European History and Director of the Centre for War Studies

Alan's research interests are the history of Continental Europe in the era of the First World War, especially focusing on the analysis of military violence, political violence, the relationship between armed forces and civilians/non-combatants, war crimes, and prisoners of war, in Germany, Austria-Hungary, and Italy. He earned his Dr. Phil. from the University of Hamburg. During the last two decades, he has been at the forefront of the development of the cultural history and the history of mentalities of the First World War; in 2001 he published with his co-author John Horne the award-winning German Atrocities 1914: A History of Denial, (Yale, 2001).  Alan Kramer’s most recent book, Dynamic of Destruction: Culture and Mass Killing in the First World War (Oxford, 2007) portrays the wider wave of cultural destruction and mass killing that swept the world from the Balkans in 1912, via the Western front, Turkey, Italy, and eastern Europe, to the seven-year catastrophe of war and revolution in Russia. He is founding co-editor of ‘1914-1918 Online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War’. He is currently working on a major research project on 'The International History of Concentration Camps'.

David Landy

Assistant Professor in Sociology, Department of Sociology

Ronit Lentin

Associate Professor in Sociology at the Department of Sociology, Trinity College Dublin, where she earned her Ph.D.

Between 1997 and 2012 she was the director of the MPhil in Race, Ethnicity, Conflict (formerly Ethnic and Racial Studies), and between 2009-2012 she was head of department. Ronit was a founding member of the Trinity Immigration Initiative, where she focused on migrant activism, leading to the edited collection Migrant Activism and Integration from Below in Ireland, published by Palgrave in 2012. Ronit is a pioneer in researching racism in Ireland and has published, with Robbie McVeigh, Racism and Antiracism in Ireland (2002), and After Optimism? Ireland, Racism and Globalisation (2006). Ronit publishes extensively on Israel/ Palestine, gender and genocide, racism and migration in Ireland and has researched representations of the Shoah, particularly through the gendering of the relationship between a masculinised Israel and a feminised Jewish diaspora, and testimonies of women who survived Transnistria, an area of deportation in Southern Ukraine, during World War II.