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IADT lecturer Dr. Justin Carville becomes a Government of Ireland Research Fellow
09-05-2008
Dr Justin Carville has been awarded a Government of Ireland Research Fellowship for 2008-2009.
This is a singular honour for Justin and for IADT.
The award is an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Research Fellowship for the next academic year, 2008-2009. The recipient is designated ‘Government of Ireland Research Fellow’ for the term of the fellowship.
The award is for a project entitled 'Photography, Ethnography and the Antiquarian Imagination: The Visual Economy of Irish Identity.' Examining the use of photography by figures such as the Irish playwright John Millington Synge, the English Anthropologist Alfred Cort Haddon and the American photographer Dorothea Lange, the project analyses the historical and cultural significance of photography in the construction and projection of Irish identity in a colonial and post-colonial context. It examines the connections between ethnographic enquiry, folklore, antiquarianism, documentary humanism and the photographic image, and their role in circulating a visualized Irish identity both nationally and globally. Its aim is to identify the significance of the photographic image in shaping Irish identity both historically and today.
