Quinnipiac University has appointed Christine Kinealy as professor of history and Irish studies.
Kinealy, who served as a visiting scholar in residence in the 2012-2013 school year, will also direct Quinnipiac’s newly created Ireland’s Great Hunger Institute, which will study the seven-year famine that struck Ireland in 1845, killing more than 1 million people.
Kinealy has authored more than 14 books on the topic.
Quinnipiac is already home to the similarly named Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, which boasts the world’s largest collection of visual art, artifacts and printed materials relating to the famine.
