Dr Emma J McAlister
Belfast-based scholar & curator. Researching religion and ritual in museums and exhibiting sacred objects in Western museums and heritage sites. Interested in Ireland’s cultural industries. Distracted by the casualised job market.
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- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterHello historians - there is a specific purpose role now advertised in UL’s history department - Title of Post: Assistant Professor in Irish History (specialism History of the Family) - all details are over on UL vacancies! Do share! #jobsky #skystorians #speirgorm #speirghorm
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterHello! I am sharing information about my @researchireland.ie project Locating Loss: histories of infertility in landscapes and spaces. I would love to connect with researchers/ practitioners from a wide range of backgrounds and disciplines, so please share widely! @nursingclio.bsky.social
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterTeaching Slavery: New Approaches to Britain's Colonial Past is now available as individual (free to download) chapters from JSTOR (no subscription needed). The first set of chapters deal with historical perspectives and the second set with pedagogical perspectives. 1/2
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterSorry to read about these thefts from the colonial collections of Bristol Museum, wishing for a speedy recovery And some still claim objects are safer in the warehouses of European museums rather than with the communities from whom they were originally stolen 🙃 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterBritish Library staff asked for a decent pay. Instead they got ‘a few money-saving present ideas’, such as ‘consider not giving presents this holiday season’. They are on strike this week. I wrote about it for @lrb.co.uk. www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2025/de...
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterWe are delighted to announce that we'll be hosting the SSNCI conference in Maynooth next June. Call for papers attached. Please spread far and wide!
- A selection of objects from the 'Changing Ireland, 1900-2020' I digitally curated are available now: Changing Ireland Gallery Highlights | National Museum of Ireland share.google/L0x6DEq3SnxR...
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterFunded PhDs at QUB: 'Belfast’s ‘bad girls’ and gender-based discrimination, c.1870-1920' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterOpportunity to work with other me on a funded PhD at Queens - may suit anyone interested in gender, history of the child and family in 20thC Ireland. Happy to chat to anyone thinking of it!
- Funded PhD opportunities at QUB: 'Childcare provision in late twentieth-century Northern Ireland (1960s-1990s)' www.qub.ac.uk/courses/post...
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- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterVery happy with this cover for ‘Irish Culture and Partition, 1920-1955’, which features a detail from Evie Hone’s stained glass window 'Four Green Fields'. This window was originally shown at the New York's World Fair in 1939, but is now found in Government Buildings on Merrion Street
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- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlister📚New book!!! So happy to share that ‘Why Historic Places Matter Emotionally’ has just been published by Cambridge University Press. Outlines a conceptual framework for ‘emotion’ comprised of responses, attachments, and communities built from evidence from places across England and Scotland.
- Fascinating research! Looking forward to reading 🙂
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- Another fabulous RUA exhibition at the @ulstermuseum.org an absolute highlight of the cultural calender ✨️
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- A fun and emotional evening returning and seeing my team for the opening of @nmireland.bsky.social Changing Ireland exhibition - the exhibition showcases around 300 objects connected to Ireland's history from 1900-2020. Exciting to see years of hard work come to life!
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- Looking forward to my holiday read! @mauricejcasey.com
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- Thanks so much @publichistoryqub.bsky.social for such a stimulating and thought-provoking conference. Although I reflected on personal experiences, I spoke to employment practices that have negativity affected so many hard working and passionate museum professionals and academics.
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- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlister🚨JOB Alert🚨 We are looking for another postdoctoral researcher to cover the history of veterans in the British colonies of Southern and/or East Africa in the interwar period. 24 month contract, deadline October 03. Please share widely. universityvacancies.com/maynooth-uni...
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- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisterThe Irish Journal of Anthropology (IJA) has just released its special issue on "Islandness", which will be of interest to all scholars of Ireland, and of islands more broadly. The IJA is open access and hosted by University College Cork on behalf of the Anthropological Association of Ireland (AAI).
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- Reposted by Dr Emma J McAlisteri wrote a little something. collectingreligion.wordpress.com/2025/06/02/o...
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- Great to see colleagues work and research 🤓
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- An xray of this painting reveals that it was originally painted with the eucharist - a reference to Catholic beliefs - but was then painted over perhaps to appeal to a Protestant buyer... @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
- Really great exhibition on museum conservation work at the @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social in Oxford - the amazing work of conservators and heritage science is often hidden from visitors
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