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Lecture | March 9, 2021

"The Irish Need to Know Their Place:" Famine, Ireland, and the Politics of Food

Kathleen Noonan

Kathleen Noonan, Ph.D.
Department of History, Sonoma State University

Via Zoom
5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Sonoma State University History Professor Kathleen Noonan spoke on “‘The Irish Need to Know Their Place:’ Famine, Ireland, and the Politics of Food.”

Noonan received her B.A. in History and English from Georgetown University. She received an M.A. in Modern and Early Modern European history and a Ph.D. in history from the University of California, Santa Barbara. In addition to her work as an historian, she has extensive experience as an archivist and manuscript curator at Georgetown University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her scholarly and research interests include Irish history.