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E. Moore Quinn

Professor of Anthropology

Education 

  • Ph.D., Anthropology, Brandeis University
  • M.A., Anthropology, Brandeis University
  • M.L.A., Celtic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Research Interests

  • Irish and Irish American Studies
  • The history and politics of representation
  • Ethnomusicology
  • Language and gender
  • Theme tourism in Ireland
  • Expressive culture
  • The theory and teaching of visual ethnography

Courses Taught 

  • ANTH 101:  Introduction to Anthropology
  • ANTH 109:  ST: Culture Through Irish and "Celtic" Music
  • ANTH 205:  Language and Culture
  • ANTH 319:  Special Topics in Anthropology
  • ANTH 326:  Peoples and Cultures of Europe
  • ANTH 329:  Special Topics- Peoples & Cultures of Ireland
  • ANTH 341:  Culture and the Individual (Fall 2018)
  • ANTH 352:  Folklore of Ireland and the British Isles
  • ANTH 490:  Independent Study in Anthropology
  • ANTH 491:  Research Methods in Anthropology
  • ANTH 499:  Bachelor’s Essay

Selected Honors and Awards

PROFESSIONAL RECOGNITION AND AWARDS

  • 2023a Recipient, Carrie Johnson Fellowship, Butte-Silver Bow Archives, Butte, MT

  • 2017  Elected Social Sciences Representative, American Conference for Irish Studies.
  • 2016  Nominated for the Distinguished Research Award- College of Charleston
  • 2014  Nominated for the William V. Moore Distinguished Teacher-Scholar Award- College of Charleston
  • 2013  Recipient, First Year Experience Outstanding Service in Teaching Award- College of Charleston

STUDY ABROAD

  • Skibbereen, County Cork, and vicinity, County Cork, Republic of Ireland Ethnographic Fieldwork in Ireland   2017
AWARDS AND CERTIFICATIONS
  • Pearson Education Ltd. Edexcel BTEC Level 2 Award (Specialist 1-3) in Principles of Customer Service in Hospitality, Leisure, Travel and Tourism (completed at North West Regional College, Londonderry, Northern Ireland)   2013    
  • Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies Certification in “Teaching Peace in the 21st Century” (completed at the University   of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana)    2013
  • Certification in Distance Education Instruction Teaching and Learning Technology (TLT) (College of Charleston)  2013    
  • Nominee, South Carolina African American Heritage Commission’s “Preserving Our Places in History” Project Award for producing the documentary “Stay in de Boat”, 2011.
  • Book-length Manuscript Nominee, American Conference for Irish Studies Murphy Prize, 2010.

Selected Publications 

BOOKS IN PRINT

  • 2022    Women and Pilgrimage (co-edited with Alison T. Smith) CAB International, Oxfordshire, OX, UK

  • 2018    Pilgrimage in Practice: Narration, Reclamation and Healing (edited with Ian S. McIntosh and Vivienne Keely) Oxfordshire, OX, UK: CAB International.

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS AND REVIEWS

  • 2025a  “‘Culling the Herd’: Discourses of Covid-19 Denial among the Irish at home and abroad.” In Covid Semiotics, edited by Mark Peterson and Colleen Cotter. New York: Routledge.

  • 2025b  “‘And now my story’s begun’: Fragments of children’s lore in Irish America.” In Childhood and the Irish: A Miscellany, edited by Salvador Ryan. Dublin: Wordwell Press.

  • 2024a  “Saturated with Colonial and Clerical Silence: Hushed Narratives on a Pilgrimage Path.” In Pilgrimage in the 21st century: a kaleidoscopic inquiry, edited by Ian McIntosh, Susan Dunn-Hensley and Alison T. Smith. UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

  • 2024b  “Folklore in Irish America” (co-authored with Cara Delay). Handbook of Irish America, edited by Kathleen Costello Sullivan and Ciarán T. McMahon. New York: Routledge.

  • 2017a  “The Lore of Women: Irish Expressive Culture in New England after the Great Hunger.” In Women and the Great Hunger in Ireland, edited by Christine Kinealy, Ciarán Reilly and Jason King, 123-137. Hamden, CT:Quinnipiac University Press.

  • 2017b  “Bounty, Moderation and Miracles: Women and Food in Narratives of the Great Famine.” New Hibernia Review 21:2: 111-129 (co-authored with Cara Delay).

  • 2017c  “‘Sheaves of Corn in an Autumn Field’: The Hungry Walk to Delphi Lodge.” In The Many Voices of Pilgrimage and Reconciliation, edited y Ian S. McIntosh and Lesley D. Harmon, 31-46. Oxfordshire, UK: CAB International.

  • 2015a  “‘They Make Us Feel Like Family’: The Irish Bed and Breakfast as Co-memorative Act.” New Hibernia Review 19:1: 77-97.

 

FIELDWORK
  • 2025 Fieldwork, Republic of Ireland (May-June)
  • 2024 Fieldwork, Republic of Ireland (May-June)
  • 2024 Observational and Archival Fieldwork on Oral Traditions in Butte, Montana