Maynooth University Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies & Philosophy

J. M. Mancini (Ph.D., M.A., Johns Hopkins; B.A., University of Virginia) is Associate Professor in History.

Before coming to Maynooth, she taught in the University of Sussex, in University College Cork, and in Canada. She has held grants and fellowships from institutions including the Getty Research Institute, the Smithsonian Institution, the Huntington Library, the Paul Mellon Centre, the British Library's Eccles Centre, and the AHRB (UK). 

Research
Mancini is an interdisciplinary scholar whose historical interests intersect with interests in architecture, the built environment and cities; art and material culture; citizenship and migration; and education. 

She has published two monographs, a co-edited essay collection, and articles and essays in a wide range of international peer-reviewed journals including American Quarterly, Critical Inquiry, and the Journal of American History.  Her most recent book, Art and War in the Pacific World, was described as ‘essential reading for scholars interested in the global interchange of art, objects, and architecture during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries’ (American Historical Review), a ‘compelling work of interdisciplinary scholarship’ (Pacific Historical Review) and ‘a remarkable work’ (Global Maritime History).

Mancini’s writing has won Irish and international prizes including the Peggy O’Brien Book Prize, the Charles C. Eldredge Prize, the Patricia and Phillip Frost Essay Prize and the Yasuo Sakakibara Prize.