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Dr. Susan Flavin

Associate Professor in History (History)

 sflavin@tcd.ie

 


Biography

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.

Research Projects

 Food, Culture and Identity in Ireland, c. 1550-1650 (FoodCult)

Memberships

Membership of Professional Institutions, Associations, Societies

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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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
Flavin, S., Consumption and Culture in Sixteenth-Century Ireland, Institute of Historical Research Seminar Series: Economic and Social History of the Premodern World, 1500-1800, University of London, October, 2011, Institute of Historical Research, Invited Talk, PRESENTED

  

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Awards and Honours

Award Date
ERC Starting Grant FOODCULT Project 2019