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Release Number: 126
16-May-01
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SALVE REGINA HISTORY PROFESSOR JOHN QUINN AWARDED POSITION AT NOTRE DAME SUMMER SEMINAR
NEWPORT, R.I. - Salve Regina history professor Dr. John F. Quinn of Middletown has been offered a position at the University of Notre Dame's Keough Institute for Irish Studies 2001 Summer Seminar devoted to "Anglo-Irish Identities 1600-1800." The seminar will be held June 18-July 20.
Quinn is the author of "Father Mathew's Crusade: Temperance in 19th-Century Ireland and Iriah America," scheduled to be released this fall by the University of Massachusetts Press. Based on Quinn's doctoral dissertation, his book examines the efforts mounted in the 1830s and 1840s by Father Theobald Mathew, a Franciscan Friar, to persuade the Irish to take the pledge and give up alcohol. This campaign ultimately failed.
He is a past recipient of the Presidential Teaching Award at Salve Regina, a Cushwa Center Research Travel Grant, and a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to participate in a summer seminar for college teachers at Yale.
Quinn earned his A.B. from Georgetown, and a master's degree and doctorate, both in history, from the University of Notre Dame.
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