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Dr. Susan Flavin

Associate Professor in History (History)
      
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Dr. Susan Flavin

Associate Professor in History (History)

 sflavin@tcd.ie

 


Dr Susan Flavin is an Associate Professor of History at Trinity College Dublin and Principle Investigator for the ERC funded project FOODCULT. She completed her PhD at the University of Bristol, where she was also engaged on the ESRC project Ireland-Bristol Trade in the Sixteenth Century (2006-9). Following a curatorial role at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, she held posts at Trinity College Dublin (2012-5) and Anglia Ruskin University (2016-8) Susan's research concentrates on the history of trade, consumption and material culture in Early Modern Britain and Ireland. She is the author of Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Saffron, Stockings and Silk. Her work is grounded in interdisciplinary approaches to history and she teaches on topics such as the social and cultural history of food and drink, and gender and domesticity in Early Modern Britain and Ireland.
Project Title
 Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c. 1550-1650 (FoodCult)
From
01/02/19
To
31/01/23
Summary
FoodCult is a five-year project funded by the European Research Council. This Digital Humanities project will develop a ground-breaking interdisciplinary approach, merging micro-historical analytical techniques with cutting edge science, computer technology and experimental archaeology, to examine what was eaten, where, why and by whom, at a level of detail previously deemed impossible for this period in Irish history. Specific lines of investigation include (i) quantitative analysis of elite household accounts, (ii) GIS mapping of archaeological assemblages, (iii) isotope analyses to investigate human mobility and diet, (iv) organic residue analysis to explore the relative role of dietary fats and changes in the material culture of food, (v) experimental brewing to replicate and analyse the components of sixteenth-century beer, (vi) zooarchaeological analysis to assess relative production and consumption of animal products, (vii) qualitative analysis of historical sources to understand food identities and interactions in early modern Ireland.
Funding Agency
ERC
Programme
Horizon 2020
Project Type
Starting Grant
Person Months
60

Details Date From Date To
Post Medieval Archaeology Society
Flavin, Susan; Meltonville, Mark; Taverner, Charlie; Reid, Joshua, Lawrence, Stephen; Belloch-Molina, Carlos; Morrissey, John, Understanding Early Modern Beer: An Interdisciplinary Approach, 2023, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Unearthing a new food culture: fruits in early modern Ireland in, editor(s)Valamoti et. al. , Cooking with Plants in Ancient Europe and Beyond: interdisciplinary approaches to the Archaeology of Plant Foods, Leiden, Sidestone Press, 2022, [McClatchie, Flavin and O'Carroll], Book Chapter, IN_PRESS
Flavin, Susan, Food and Social Politics in Early Modern Ireland: Representing the Peasant in The Parliament of Clan Tomas, Food and History, 20, (1), 2022, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  DOI  URL
Taverner, C and Flavin, S, Food and Power in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Studying Household Accounts from Dublin Castle, The Historical Journal, 2022, Notes: [doi:10.1017/S0018246X2200019X], Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Flavin, S. M., McClatchie, M., Montgomery, J., An Interdisciplinary Approach to Historic Diet and Foodways: The FoodCult Project, European Journal of Food, Drink and Society, 1, (1), 2021, p1 - 19, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  TARA - Full Text  URL
Food, Drink and Society in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Cultures of Consumption in, editor(s)Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Audrey Horning, Eve Campbell , Becoming & Belonging in Ireland c.1200-1600 , Cork, Cork University Press, 2018, pp212 - 243, [Susan Flavin], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Domestic Materiality in Ireland, 1550-1730 in, editor(s)Jane Ohlmeyer , The Cambridge History of Ireland, Early Modern Ireland, 1550-1730. Volume 2, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2018, pp321 - 345, [Susan Flavin], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Susan Flavin, Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland, Saffron, Stockings and Silk, Woodbridge, Boydell Press, 2014, Book, PUBLISHED
The Decorative Arts, Change and Development in the Sixteenth Century in, editor(s)Sam Smiles , West Country to World's End: The South West in the Tudor Age, London, Paul Holberton, 2013, pp25 - 63, [Susan Flavin], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Susan Flavin, "Consumption and Material Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland", Economic History Review, 64, (4), 2011, p1073 - 1427, Journal Article, PUBLISHED  URL
  

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Carlos Belloch-Molina , Charlie Taverner , Joshua Reid3 , Adrian Warrell, Jo Dicks 4 , Stephen Lawrence3 , Marc Meltonville, Susan Flavin , John Morrissey, Recreating a unique early modern beer, Microbiology Society, Belfast, April 2022, edited by Carlos Belloch-Molina , 2022, Poster, PRESENTED
Taverner, C. and Flavin, S., 'FoodCult Exhibition', Online Exhibition, Trinity College Dublin, 2021, -, Exhibition, PUBLISHED
Susan Flavin, Pots and Bones Workshops, 13/09/19, 2019, Long Room Hub, Meetings /Conferences Organised, PRESENTED
Susan Flavin, Food, Culture and Identity in Early Modern Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Approach', IPMAG XIX Borders and Boundaries in Post-Medieval Ireland, Eniskillen, 02/19, 2019, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Susan Flavin, Food, Culture and Identity in Early Modern Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Approach', IEHCA, Cinquième Conférence Internationale d'Histoire et des Cultures de l'Alimentation, IEHCA, Tours, France, 06/19, 2019, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Susan Flavin, 'Food and the Lower Orders in Early Modern Ireland: Sources, Problems and Possibilities' , Tudor and Stuart Ireland, Long Room Hub, 17/08/19, 2019, Oral Presentation, PRESENTED
Food, Drink and Society in Sixteenth-Century Ireland: Cultures of Consumption in, editor(s)Eve Campbell, Elizabeth FitzPatrick, Audrey Horning , Becoming & Belonging in Ireland c.1200-1600 , Cork, 2018, pp212 - 243, [Susan Flavin], Book Chapter, PUBLISHED
Elizabeth Fitzpatrick, Becoming & Belonging in Ireland c.1200-1600 , Cork, Cork University Press, 2017, 212 - 243pp, Book, PUBLISHED
Flavin, S., 'Changing consumption patterns in sixteenth-century Ireland: evidence from the Bristol customs accounts', Centre for Irish Programmes, Boston College, Dublin, October, 2013, Irish Historical Society, Invited Talk, PRESENTED
Flavin, S., Review of A Calendar of Material relating to Ireland from the High Court of Admiralty, 1641-1660 , by Murphy, E. , Irish Studies Review, 20, (4), 2012, Review, PUBLISHED

  


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Award Date
ERC Starting Grant FOODCULT Project 2019