Dr Shane McCorristine
Dr Shane McCorristine, currently an IRCHSS CARA Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Social Sciences at National University of Ireland, Maynooth, English Department and Scott Polar Research Institute, University of Cambridge, has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Election to fellowship status is conferred on those who have made 'an original contribution to historical scholarship in the form of significant published work'. Dr McCorristine's monograph, 'Spectres of the Self: Thinking about Ghosts and Ghost-seeing in England, 1750-1920' (Cambridge University Press) appeared in 2010.

