Biography
Dr Richard Kirwan is a Senior Lecturer in History and an Irish Research Council Laureate. He is the P.I. of 'Malcontents: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning,' a four-year project funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate award. His research interests include the social and cultural history of early modern universities and the world of learning, early modern print culture, and the culture and politics of religious conversion. His work focuses on the German-speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire. Prior to taking up his position at the University of Limerick, Dr Kirwan held posts at the University of St Andrews, the European University Institute, Florence, Maynooth University, and Trinity College Dublin.Research Interests
Dr Richard Kirwan is a Senior Lecturer in History and an Irish Research Council Laureate. He is P.I. of 'Malcontents: Order and Disorder in the Early Modern World of Learning,' a four-year project funded by an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate award. Dr Kirwan specialises in early modern European history with a focus on the German-speaking lands of the Holy Roman Empire. His research interests include the social and cultural history of the early modern world of learning, early modern print culture, and Reformation history and the history of religious conversion. Dr Kirwan's publications include the monograph Empowerment and Representation at the University in Early Modern Germany: Helmstedt and Würzburg, 1576-1634 (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009), and the edited volumes Scholarly Self-Fashioning and Community in the Early Modern University (Farnham: Ashgate, 2013), and Specialist Markets in the Early Modern Book World (Leiden: Brill, 2015).
Professional Activities
Award
- 2022 - Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate Award
- 2020 - Senior Fellow, Descartes Centre, University of Utrecht
- 2017 - Gerda Henkel Stiftung Research Project Award
- 2017 - Visiting Scholar, Seminar für Neuere Geschichte at the University of Tübingen
- 2015 - IRC New Foundations Award
- 2009 - Max Weber Fellowship, European University Insitute, Florence
- 2009 - DAAD Research Grant
- 2008 - IRCHSS Postdoctoral Fellowship
- 2006 - Trinity College Dublin Postgraduate Award
- 2004 - Rolf and Ursula Schneider Stiftung Doctoral Fellowship
- 2004 - Grace Lawless Lee Award, Trinity College Dublin
- 2002 - IRCHSS Postgraduate Scholarship
Association
- Member, German History Society
- Member, HistGeogUni A global research network on the historical geographies of the university
- Member, Early Modern Religious Dissents and Radicalism (EMoDiR ) Research Group
- Member, Verein für Reformationsgeschichte
- Member, Renaissance Society of America
Committee
- International Advisory Board of 'War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe' ERC funded research project, War and the Supernatural in Early Modern Europe is a research project funded by the European Research Council and hosted by Queen's University Belfast. The P.I. is Dr Ian Campbell (QUB).
- Centre for Early Modern Studies, Limerick,
- Royal Irish Academy Historical Studies Committee,
Other
- Formerly scholarly editor on Early European Books, a ProQuest database, with responsibility for scholarly and academic print. See http://www.proquest.com/products-services/databases/eeb.html. Project Completed.