Cormac Ó Gráda#
Membership Number: | 3247 |
Membership type: | ORDINARY |
Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
Elected: | 2012 |
Main Country of Residence: | IRELAND |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2006 to present Professor, School of Economics
- 1993 - 2006 Associate Professor, School of Economics, UCD
- 1973 - 1993 Lecturer/Senior Lecturer, UCD
- Jan-May 2011 Research fellow, Centre for Health and Wellbeing, Princeton University
- Fall 2007 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University
- 2003 - 2004 Scholar, Shelby Cullom Davis Center, Princeton University
- Fall 1997 Visiting Research Professor, Economic Institute, University of Copenhagen
- 1980 - 1981, 1985 - 1986 Visiting Associate Professor, UBC, Vancouver
- Spring 1995 Visiting Professor, Ireland House, New York University
Fields of Scholarship
- Economic history of Irish and Italian migration
- Economic history of Ireland
- Economics of the Industrial Revolution
- History of Irish Jewry
- History of famine worldwide
- History of financial panics
- Early history of savings banks
- English and Irish demographic history
Honours and Awards
- 1994 Member, Royal Irish Academy
- 2000 American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for best History book
- 2007 American Conference for Irish Studies Prize for best History book
- 2007 R. H. Tawney Lecturer, Economic History Society Conference, Exeter
- 2010 Royal Irish Academy Gold Medal Recipient
- 2011 T. K. Whitaker Lecturer, Central Bank of Ireland
- 2012 Patrick O'Farrell Memorial Lecture, University of New South Wales
- 2019 Honorary Doctorate, Trinity College Dublin