Network Member Profiles
Juliana Adelman, Dublin City University.
Biography
My current project, The Urban Animal, examines the relationships between people and animals in the nineteenth-century city. I see it as an animals-focussed urban environmental history. I look at the different roles of animals in city life: labourers, performers, specimens, consumables, companions and vermin. I am interested in how animals are related to the processes of urbanization and reform within nineteenth-century cities and how animal sciences altered and were altered by the urban environment. I am also interested in the development of animal sciences such as natural history, zoology, biology and veterinary medicine more generally and how changes in the way that we think about animals have affected how we view ourselves. Finally, I am also interested in the development of ideas of intelligence, especially distinctions between human and animal types of intelligence. My previous research has looked at science in nineteenth-century Ireland with a focus on the development of the Queen's Colleges and their relationship with existing scientific bodies in Cork, Galway and Belfast.
Contact Juliana.Adelman@dcu.ie
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Research Interests
Natural history - zoology - urban history - animals.
Collaborative interests
I would particularly like to hear from others doing urban environmental history.
Themes
Earth.
Selected Publications
Adelman, J. (In Press, 2017) Food and drink, In: Daly, M. and Biagini, E. F. (eds.), The Cambridge social history of Ireland, 1740 to the present. Cambridge: Cambridge University.
Adelman, J. and Ludlow, F. (2014) The Past, Present and Future of Irish Environmental History, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, 114C (7), 359-391, doi: 10.3318/PRIAC.2014.114.07.
Adelman, J. (2012) An insight into commercial natural history: William Hinchy, Richard Glennon and the trade in giant Irish deer remains, Archives of Natural History, 39(1), 16-26.
Adelman, J. (2011) The industrial resources of Ireland by Robert Kane, In: James Murphy (ed.), The Oxford history of the Irish book. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Adelman, J. and Agnew, E. (eds.) (2011) Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
Adelman, J. (2009) Animal knowledge: Zoology and class-ification in nineteenth-century Dublin, Field Day Review, 5, 109-21.
Adelman, J. (2009) Communities of science in nineteenth-century Ireland. London: Pickering Chatto Publishers.
Adelman, J. (2008) The agriculture diploma in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1849-63, and science education in nineteenth-century Ireland, Irish Economic and Social History, 35, 51-67.
Adelman, J. (2005) Evolution on display: Promoting Irish natural history and Darwinism at the Dublin Science and Art Museum, British Journal for the History of Science, 38(4), 411-436.