Barry McCarron

Ph.D. Georgetown University (2016); M.A. University College Dublin (2005); B.A. University College Dublin (2004)

World history; United States in the world; British imperial history; modern Ireland; global Irish and Chinese diasporas; China and the West; late imperial and modern China; digital humanities

Bio:

Barry McCarron earned his Ph.D. in history from Georgetown University. He has held research fellowships at the Universities of Melbourne and Oxford and before coming to New York University taught at McDaniel College and CUNY-Hunter College.

McCarron is currently working on a book project based on his dissertation, “The Global Irish and Chinese,” which won the 2016 World History Association Dissertation Prize. This is the first book to examine connections between Ireland and China and relations between Irish and Chinese in the United States, the British Empire, and the broader Pacific world. It draws on multinational and multilingual archival research to present a ground-breaking study of the nature of Sino-Irish relations and their significance in U.S., Irish, Chinese, British imperial, and world history. 

Rothermere American Institute Visiting Research Fellowship, University of Oxford (2018)

O’Donnell Fellowship in Irish Studies, Newman and St. Mary’s Colleges, University of Melbourne (2018)    

James H. Bradley Fellowship, Montana Historical Society (2017)

John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Research Award, Charles Redd Center for Western Studies, Brigham Young University (2017)

Cushwa Center Research Travel Grant, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame (2017)

Bucerius Young Scholars Forum, German Historical Institute West at University of California, Berkeley, selected participant (2017)

Irish-American Crossroads Festival, guest speaker (2017)

World History Association Dissertation Prize, World History Association (2016)

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar for College and University Teachers, “America and China: 150 Years of Aspirations and Encounters,” Calvin College, selected participant (2015)

George E. Pozzetta Dissertation Award, Immigration and Ethnic History Society (2014)

Huntington Library Michael J. Connell Foundation Fellowship (2014-15)

Cosmos Scholars Award, Cosmos Club Foundation (2014-15)

Immigration History Research Center Grant-in-Aid Award, University of Minnesota (2014)

Global Scholars and Diversity Grant, Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (2014)

Piepho Dissertation Research Grant, Department of History, Georgetown University (Spring 2012)

American Studies Association Assistantship (2008-10)

Ph.D. Program Tuition Scholarship, Department of History, Georgetown University (2008-15)

Mandarin Chinese Enrichment Scholarship, Taiwan Ministry of Education (2007-2008)