S4E17 Jennifer Wellington - University College, Dublin

Today's guest is the delightful First World War scholar Dr. Jennifer Wellington. Jennifer is Assistant Professor in Late 19th/20th Century Continental and Global History at University College, Dublin, where she is also a member of the UCD Centre for War Studies. She earned a BA in English and an LLB, both with Honors, at Australian National University, Canberra. At Canberra, she was awarded the Tillyard Prize, the "oldest and most prestigious prize available to bachelor degree students of the University." She later earned an MA, MPhil, and PhD at Yale University and was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize for Outstanding Dissertation in a Field of European History. She was a postdoctoral researcher at King's College, London, before joining the faculty at UCD. In 2022-23, she was a Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at University College, London.

Jennifer is the author of Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums and Memory in Britain, Canada and Australia (Cambridge). Her essays and articles have appeared in 1914-1918 Online: The International Encyclopedia of the First World War, The Journal of Contemporary History, and Century Ireland, among many others. Jennifer is on the Editorial Advisory Board at the British Journal of Military History and a Section Editor for 1914-1918 Online. Her current research examines the history of wartime trophy-taking.

Join us for a really interesting chat with Jennifer Wellington. We'll talk about growing up in rural Australia (that narrows it down, right?), graduate studies at Yale, war museums and war art, the Priestly 11, Vegemite, and Moden Pizza in New Haven. Rec.: 02/01/2024