Prof Gerry Kearns

Geography

Professor
Head of Department

Rhetoric House
23B
(01) 7086153

Biography

I gained a PhD in Geography from the University of Cambridge. My work is at the intersection of historical, political and medical themes in Geography. My 2009 book, Geopolitics and Empire, won the Murchison Award from the Royal Geographical Society as the most significant contribution to geographical scholarship that year. I am currently working on the cultural politics of AIDS for a book to be called Making Space for AIDS. Distinguished Historical Geographer at the Association of American Geographers Conference, 2015.

Research Interests

Geopolitics Medical Geography Irish identities The Catholic Body and Artistic Performance

Books

  Year Publication
2014 Spatial justice and the Irish crisis.
Kearns, G., David Meredith and John Morrissey (eds) (2014) Spatial justice and the Irish crisis. : Royal Irish Academy. [Details]
2009 Geopolitics and Empire: the legacy of Halford Mackinder.
Kearns, G. (2009) Geopolitics and Empire: the legacy of Halford Mackinder. : Oxford University Press. [Details]
1993 Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present.
(1993) Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present. : Pergamon. [Details]
1991 Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century.
(1991) Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century. : Cambridge University Press. [Details]
1985 Urban epidemics and historical geography: cholera in London 1848-9.
Kearns, G. (1985) Urban epidemics and historical geography: cholera in London 1848-9. : Geobooks. [Details]

Edited Books

  Year Publication
2014 Spatial justice and the Irish crisis
Gerry Kearns, David Meredith and John Morrissey (Ed.). (2014) Spatial justice and the Irish crisis Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. [Details]

Peer Reviewed Journals

  Year Publication
2017 'The territory of colonialism'
Kearns, G. (2017) 'The territory of colonialism'. Territory, Politics, Governance, 5 (2):222-238 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2017 'Fiona Whelan: Enduring place'
Kearns, G. (2017) 'Fiona Whelan: Enduring place'. Klaxon, 6 :38-49 [IR Link] [Details]
2016 'Vacancy and value in Dublin, 1798-1911'
Kearns, G (2016) 'Vacancy and value in Dublin, 1798-1911'. Irish Geography, 48 (1):22-45 [IR Link] [Details]
2015 'How has my home area changed over time? Exploring a key geographical concept using on-line resources and fieldwork'
Kearns, G. and Waddington, S. (2015) 'How has my home area changed over time? Exploring a key geographical concept using on-line resources and fieldwork'. Geographical Viewpoint, 42-43 :34-42 [IR Link] [Details]
2015 'Often Doublin' in the Green'
Kearns, G. (2015) 'Often Doublin' in the Green'. American Association of Geographers Review of Books, 3 :52-56 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2014 'Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies, Part 2'
Kearns, G. (2014) 'Colonial Contexts and Postcolonial Legacies, Part 2'. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 42 :27-29 [IR Link] [Details]
2014 'Governing vitalities and the security state'
Kearns, G (2014) 'Governing vitalities and the security state'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 32 :762-778 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2014 'If wood were an element: Primo Levi and the material world'
Kearns, G. (2014) 'If wood were an element: Primo Levi and the material world'. Versus: Quaderni di Studi Semiotici, 119 :21-49 [IR Link] [Details]
2014 'Up to the Sun and Down to the Centre: The Utopian Moment in Anticolonial Nationalism'
Kearns, G. (2014) 'Up to the Sun and Down to the Centre: The Utopian Moment in Anticolonial Nationalism'. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 42 :130-151 [IR Link] [Details]
2014 'Fatal Geographies'
Kearns, G. (2014) 'Fatal Geographies'. Irish Geography, 46 [DOI] [Details]
2013 'Geopolitical Regression'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Geopolitical Regression'. American Association of Geographers Review of Books, 1 :135-139 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'Globalization and empire'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Globalization and empire'. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D, 30 :955-957 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'Colonialism and the Irish Famine'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Colonialism and the Irish Famine'. To be added, 2 :76-77 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'Beyond the legacy of Mackinder'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Beyond the legacy of Mackinder'. Geopolitics, 18 :917-932 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'Irish historical geographies: Colonial contexts and postcolonial legacies'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Irish historical geographies: Colonial contexts and postcolonial legacies'. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 41 :22-34 [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'Gender, Politics, Solidarity'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Gender, Politics, Solidarity'. DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS, 30 [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'Beyond the Legacy of Mackinder'
Kearns, G (2013) 'Beyond the Legacy of Mackinder'. Geopolitics, 18 :917-932 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2013 'The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity'
Kearns, G (2013) 'The Butler affair and the geopolitics of identity'. Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, 31 :191-207 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2012 'Looking into the dark'
Kearns, G. (2012) 'Looking into the dark'. DUBLIN REVIEW OF BOOKS, 21 [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Reading Gerry Kearns' Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder'
Kearns, G. (2011) 'Reading Gerry Kearns' Geopolitics and Empire: The Legacy of Halford Mackinder'. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 30 :49-58 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Lessons from the past: Why do famines still plague us? [Chronicle of Higer Education, Chronicle Review]'
Nally, D., and Kearns, G. (2011) 'Lessons from the past: Why do famines still plague us? [Chronicle of Higer Education, Chronicle Review]'. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 58 :B10-B12 [IR Link] [Details]
2010 'The descent of Darwin'
Kearns, G. (2010) 'The descent of Darwin'. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING A, 42 :257-258 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2010 'Annual General Meeting and Medal and Awards Celebration'
Kearns, G. (2010) 'Annual General Meeting and Medal and Awards Celebration'. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, 176 :256-266 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2010 'Geography, geopolitics, and empire'
Kearns, G. (2010) 'Geography, geopolitics, and empire'. TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS, 35 :183-207 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2009 'Mackinder Redux'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Mackinder Redux'. Human Geography, 2 (2):44-47 [IR Link] [Details]
2009 'Vital geographies: life, luck and the human condition'
Kearns, G., and Reid-Henry, S. (2009) 'Vital geographies: life, luck and the human condition'. ANNALS OF THE ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN GEOGRAPHERS, 99 :554-574 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2008 'Progressive Geopolitics'
Kearns, G. (2008) 'Progressive Geopolitics'. GEOGRAPHY COMPASS, 2 :1599-1620 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2008 'Disaster capitalism in historical perspective'
Nally, D., and Kearns, G. (2008) 'Disaster capitalism in historical perspective'. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, 174 :285-286 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2008 'Forging early-modern colonial Ireland'
Kearns, G. (2008) 'Forging early-modern colonial Ireland'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 34 :138-144 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2008 'The geography of terror'
Kearns, G. (2008) 'The geography of terror'. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 27 :360-364 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2006 'Naturalising empire: echoes of Mackinder for the next American century?'
Kearns, G. (2006) 'Naturalising empire: echoes of Mackinder for the next American century?'. GEOPOLITICS, 11 :74-98 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2006 'Dublin, modernity and the postcolonial fix'
Kearns, G. (2006) 'Dublin, modernity and the postcolonial fix'. IRISH GEOGRAPHY, 39 :177-183 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2006 'The Social Shell'
Kearns, G. (2006) 'The Social Shell'. HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 34 :49-70 [IR Link] [Details]
2004 'The political pivot of Geography'
Kearns, G. (2004) 'The political pivot of Geography'. GEOGRAPHICAL JOURNAL, 170 :337-346 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2004 'Mother Ireland and the revolutionary sisters'
Kearns, G. (2004) 'Mother Ireland and the revolutionary sisters'. CULTURAL GEOGRAPHIES, 11 :459-483 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2001 '“Educate that holy hatred”: place, trauma and identity in the Irish nationalism of John Mitchel'
Kearns, G. (2001) '“Educate that holy hatred”: place, trauma and identity in the Irish nationalism of John Mitchel'. POLITICAL GEOGRAPHY, 20 :885-911 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2000 'Maps, models and registers: the historical geography of the population of England'
Kearns, G. (2000) 'Maps, models and registers: the historical geography of the population of England'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 26 :298-304 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1999 'Graham Smith (1953-99): an appreciation'
Kearns, G. (1999) 'Graham Smith (1953-99): an appreciation'. TRANSACTIONS OF THE INSTITUTE OF BRITISH GEOGRAPHERS, 24 :495-500 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1998 'The virtuous circle of facts and values in the New Western History'
Kearns, G. (1998) 'The virtuous circle of facts and values in the New Western History'. Annals of the Association of American Geographers, 88 :377-409 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1997 'The imperial subject: geography and travel writing in the work of Halford Mackinder and Mary Kingsley'
Kearns, G. (1997) 'The imperial subject: geography and travel writing in the work of Halford Mackinder and Mary Kingsley'. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers, 22 :450-472 [IR Link] [Details]
1994 'Class and environment in Fatal Years'
Kearns, G. (1994) 'Class and environment in Fatal Years'. Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 68 :113-123 [Details]
1993 'Le handicap urbain et le déclin de la mortalité en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles'
Kearns, G. (1993) 'Le handicap urbain et le déclin de la mortalité en Angleterre et au Pays de Galles'. Annales de Demographie Historique, 1993 :75-105 [IR Link] [Details]
1993 'Duncan and the cholera test: public health in mid-nineteenth century Liverpool'
Kearns, G., Laxton, P. and Campbell, J. (1993) 'Duncan and the cholera test: public health in mid-nineteenth century Liverpool'. Transactions Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, 143 :87-115 [IR Link] [Details]
1992 'Cholera, nuisances and environmental management in Islington 1830-1855'
Kearns, G. (1992) 'Cholera, nuisances and environmental management in Islington 1830-1855'. MEDICAL HISTORY, Supplement 11 :94-125 [IR Link] [Details]
1992 'Historical Geography'
Kearns, G. (1992) 'Historical Geography'. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 16 :406-413 [DOI] [Details]
1991 'This Common Inheritance: green idealism versus Tory pragmatism'
Kearns, G. (1991) 'This Common Inheritance: green idealism versus Tory pragmatism'. JOURNAL OF BIOGEOGRAPHY, 18 :363-370 [Details]
1991 'Historical Geography'
Kearns, G. (1991) 'Historical Geography'. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 15 :47-56 [DOI] [Details]
1989 'Historical Geography'
Kearns, G. (1989) 'Historical Geography'. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 13 :259-266 [DOI] [Details]
1989 'Death in the time of cholera'
Kearns, G. (1989) 'Death in the time of cholera'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 15 :425-432 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1988 'Historical Geography'
Kearns, G. (1988) 'Historical Geography'. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 12 :103-110 [DOI] [Details]
1988 'History, geography and world systems theory'
Kearns, G (1988) 'History, geography and world systems theory'. Journal of Historical Geographpy, 14 :281-292 [IR Link] [Details]
1988 'Private property and public health reform in England 1830-1870'
Kearns, G. (1988) 'Private property and public health reform in England 1830-1870'. SOCIAL SCIENCE AND MEDICINE, 26 :187-199 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
1987 'Private enterprise rains O.K.? London and its water supply'
Kearns, G. (1987) 'Private enterprise rains O.K.? London and its water supply'. London Journal, 12 :180-186 [Details]
1985 'Historical Geography'
Kearns, G. (1985) 'Historical Geography'. PROGRESS IN HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 10 :587-594 [Details]
1985 'Halford Mackinder'
Kearns, G. (1985) 'Halford Mackinder'. Geographers Bibliographical Studies, 9 (71) [Details]
1984 'Closed space and political practice: Halford Mackinder and Frederick Jackson Turner'
Kearns, G. (1984) 'Closed space and political practice: Halford Mackinder and Frederick Jackson Turner'. ENVIRONMENT AND PLANNING D, 2 :23-34 [DOI] [Details]
1984 'Making space for Marx'
Kearns, G. (1984) 'Making space for Marx'. JOURNAL OF HISTORICAL GEOGRAPHY, 10 :411-417 [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]

Book Chapters

  Year Publication
2018 ''The Wrath of the Rain': The Lifeworlds of Irish Cultural Practice'
Kearns, Gerry and Till, Karen E. (2018) ''The Wrath of the Rain': The Lifeworlds of Irish Cultural Practice' In: Cronin, N. and Collins, T (eds). Irish Lifeworlds. Cork: University of Cork. [Details]
2017 'HIV, AIDS, and the Global Imaginary'
Kearns, G. (2017) 'HIV, AIDS, and the Global Imaginary' In: Clare Herrick and David Reubi (eds). Global health and geographical imaginaries. London: Routledge. [IR Link] [Details]
2016 'Queering epidemiology'
Kearns, G. (2016) 'Queering epidemiology' In: Gavin Brown and Kath Browne (eds). The Routledge Research Companion to Geographies of Sex and Sexualities. London: Routledge. [IR Link] [Details]
2014 'Spatial Justice and Primary Education'
Kearns, G. and Meredith, D. (2014) 'Spatial Justice and Primary Education' In: Spatial Justice and the Irish Crisis. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. [Details]
2014 'Introduction'
Kearns, G. (2014) 'Introduction' In: Spatial justice and the Irish crisis. Dublin: Royal Irish Academy. [Details]
2014 'Manly Endeavours'
Kearns, G. (2014) 'Manly Endeavours' In: Geopolitics: An introductory reader. New York: Routledge. [Details]
2013 'Interpréter les differences mondiales'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Interpréter les differences mondiales' In: Élisée Reclus et nos géographies: Textes et prétextes. Paris: Éditions Noir et Rouge. [Details]
2013 'Imperialism and the Heartland'
Kearns, G. (2013) 'Imperialism and the Heartland' In: Central Asia in International Relations: The Legacies of Halford Mackinder. London: Hurst. [IR Link] [Details]
2012 'The Political Pivot of Geography'
Kearns, G. (2012) 'The Political Pivot of Geography' In: Human Geography. Volume 1. London: Sage. [Details]
2012 'Nationalism and the public sphere: The Nation newspaper and he movement for the repeal of the Union'
Kearns, G. (2012) 'Nationalism and the public sphere: The Nation newspaper and he movement for the repeal of the Union' In: At the Anvil: Essays in Honour of William J. Smyth. Dublin: Geographical Publications. [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Echoes of Schmitt among the Ideologists of the New American Empire'
Kearns, G. (2011) 'Echoes of Schmitt among the Ideologists of the New American Empire' In: Saptiality, Sovereignty and Carl Schmitt: Geogrpahies of the Nomos. London: Routledge. [IR Link] [Details]
2011 'Geopolitics'
Kearns, G. (2011) 'Geopolitics' In: Handbook of Geographical Knowledge. London: Sage. [Details]
2009 'Heartland'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Heartland' In: Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]
2009 'Mackinder, H. J'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Mackinder, H. J' In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier. [Details]
2009 'Frontier thesis'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Frontier thesis' In: Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]
2009 'Frontier'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Frontier' In: Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]
2009 'Sequent occupance'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Sequent occupance' In: Dictionary of Human Geography, fifth edition. London: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details]
2009 'Kropótkin, P.'
Kearns, G. (2009) 'Kropótkin, P.' In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography. Oxford: Elsevier. [Details]
2008 'Taking theory for a walk in Ireland'
Kearns, G. (2008) 'Taking theory for a walk in Ireland' In: Practicing the archive: reflections on methods and practice in historical geography. London: Historical Geography Research Group. [Details]
2007 'The history of medical geography after Foucault'
Kearns, G. (2007) 'The history of medical geography after Foucault' In: Space, knowledge and power: Foucault and Geography. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. [Details]
2006 'Bare life, political violence and the territorial structure of Britain and Ireland'
Kearns, G. (2006) 'Bare life, political violence and the territorial structure of Britain and Ireland' In: Violent geographies: fear, terror and political violence. New York: Routledge. [Details]
2006 'Europe as the just measure of the world'
Kearns, G. (2006) 'Europe as the just measure of the world' In: Reclus: textes et contextes. Lyon: Université de Lyon. [Details]
2004 'Halford Mackinder'
Kearns, G. (2004) 'Halford Mackinder' In: Dictionary of nineteenth-century British scientists. London: Thoemmes Press. [Details]
2004 'Environmental history'
Kearns, G. (2004) 'Environmental history' In: A companion to cultural geography. Oxford: Blackwell. [DOI] [IR Link] [Details]
2003 'Nation, empire, cosmopolis: Ireland and the break with Britain'
Kearns, G. (2003) 'Nation, empire, cosmopolis: Ireland and the break with Britain' In: Geographies of British modernity: space and society in the twentieth century. Oxford: Blackwell. [DOI] [Details]
2003 'Imperial geopolitics: geopolitical visions at the dawn of the American century'
Kearns, G. (2003) 'Imperial geopolitics: geopolitical visions at the dawn of the American century' In: A companion to political geography. Oxford: Blackwell. [DOI] [Details]
2002 'Ethnic groups as public health hazards: the Famine Irish in Liverpool and lazaretto politics'
Kearns, G., and Laxton, P. (2002) 'Ethnic groups as public health hazards: the Famine Irish in Liverpool and lazaretto politics' In: The politics of the healthy life: an international perspective. Sheffield: European Association for the History of Medicine and Health. [Details]
2001 'Power and salubrity: the politics of sanitary reform in Victorian Liverpool'
Laxton, P., and Kearns, G. (2001) 'Power and salubrity: the politics of sanitary reform in Victorian Liverpool' In: Les hygiénistes: enjeux, modèles et pratiques (XVIIIe-XXe siècles). Paris: Belin. [Details]
2000 'Town Hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840-63'
Kearns, G. (2000) 'Town Hall and Whitehall: sanitary intelligence in Liverpool, 1840-63' In: Body and city: histories of urban public health. Aldershot: Ashgate Press. [Details]
1999 'Demography and industrialisation: a geographical overview'
Kearns, G. (1999) 'Demography and industrialisation: a geographical overview' In: Industrialisation and the Epidemiologic Transition. Umeå: Demographic Data Base. [IR Link] [Details]
1995 'Tuberculosis and the medicalisation of English society, 1880-1920'
Kearns, G. (1995) 'Tuberculosis and the medicalisation of English society, 1880-1920' In: Coping with sickness: historical aspects of health care in a European perspective. Sheffield: European Association for the History of Medicine. [Details]
1994 'Urbanisierung und Professionalisierung als Bestimmungsfaktoren bei der Gestaltung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems im 19. Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich'
Kearns, G., Lee, W. R., and Rogers, J. (1994) 'Urbanisierung und Professionalisierung als Bestimmungsfaktoren bei der Gestaltung des deutschen Gesundheitssystems im 19. Jahrhundert im internationalen Vergleich' In: Städtische Bevölkerungsentwicklung in Deutschland im 19. Jahrhundert: Soziale und demographische Aspekte der Urbanisierung. St. Katharinen, Germany: Scripta Mercaturae Verlag. [Details]
1993 'The city as spectacle: Paris and the celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution'
Kearns, G. (1993) 'The city as spectacle: Paris and the celebration of the Bicentenary of the French Revolution' In: Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present. London: Pergamon. [Details]
1993 'Fin-de-siècle geopolitics: Mackinder, Hobson and theories of global closure'
Kearns, G. (1993) 'Fin-de-siècle geopolitics: Mackinder, Hobson and theories of global closure' In: Political geography of the twentieth century. London: Belhaven Press. [Details]
1993 'Culture, history, capital: a critical introduction to the selling of places'
Philo, C., and Kearns, G. (1993) 'Culture, history, capital: a critical introduction to the selling of places' In: Selling places: the city as cultural capital, past and present. London: Pergamon. [Details]
1993 'Quiet prosperity: the Nordic countries'
Kearns, G. (1993) 'Quiet prosperity: the Nordic countries' In: World economy. Oxford: Andromeda. [Details]
1992 'Historical and geographical perspectives'
Kearns, G. (1992) 'Historical and geographical perspectives' In: The student’s companion to geography. Oxford: Basil Blackwell. [Details]
1992 'The problems of sanitary reform in Islington'
Kearns, G. (1992) 'The problems of sanitary reform in Islington' In: Deborah Brunton (eds). Health, Disease and Society in Europe, 1800-1930: A Sourcebook. Manchester UK: Manchester University Press. [Details]
1991 'Introduction'
Kearns, G., and Withers, C. (1991) 'Introduction' In: Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
1991 'Biology, class, and the urban penalty'
Kearns, G. (1991) 'Biology, class, and the urban penalty' In: Urbanising Britain: essays on class and community in the nineteenth century. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. [Details]
1989 'The interaction of political and economic factors in the public health of England, Germany and Sweden'
Kearns, G. (1989) 'The interaction of political and economic factors in the public health of England, Germany and Sweden' In: Urbanisation and the epidemiologic transition. Uppsala: Family History Project. [Details]
1989 'Zivilis and hygaeia: urban public health during the epidemiologic transition'
Kearns, G. (1989) 'Zivilis and hygaeia: urban public health during the epidemiologic transition' In: The rise and fall of great cities. London: Belhaven Press. [Details]
1989 'Introduction'
Kearns, G. (1989) 'Introduction' In: Urbanisation and the epidemiologic transition. Uppsala: Family History Project. [Details]
1988 'The urban penalty and the population history of England'
Kearns, G. (1988) 'The urban penalty and the population history of England' In: Society and health during the demographic transition. Stockholm: Almqvist and Wiksell. [IR Link] [Details]

Thesis

  Year Publication
1985 Aspects of cholera, society and space in nineteenth-century England and Wales.
Kearns, G. (1985) Aspects of cholera, society and space in nineteenth-century England and Wales. University of Cambridge: Thesis [Details]

Honours and Awards

  Year Title Awarding Body
2016 Tom Jones Hughes Viewpoint Contributors Award (jointly with Dr Shelagh Waddington) Association of Geography Teachers of Ireland
2004 Visiting Research Fellow, NUI-Maynooth
2014 Erskine Fellowship, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
2017 Moore Institute Visiting Research Fellowship Moore Institute, National University of Ireland Galway
1991 Guest Researcher, Demographic Data Base, Umeå
1991 Nuffield Research Fellowship
2010 Murchison Award, Royal Geographical Society, London
2015 Distinguished Historical Geographer Association of American Geographers
2007 Visiting Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Minneapolis
1986 Swedish Institute Visiting Research Fellow

Professional Associations

  Association Function From / To
Geographical Society of Ireland Member 01-JAN-00 /
Association of American Geographers Member 01-JAN-87 /

Committees

  Committee Function From / To
Historical Geography Member 1996 / 2020
Geosciences and Geographical Sciences Committee, Royal Irish Academy Member 2010 / 2018
Irish Geography Member 2008 / 2020
Journal of Historical Geography Member 1990 / 2020

Education

  Year Institution Qualification Subject
1978 University of Cambridge BA
1985 University of Cambridge PhD

Outreach Activities

  Description

Discussant for panel on Cultural Resilience & Transmission

Facilitator at Connect the Dots event, Re-Using Dublin, De-Light Studios, Dublin 1

A lecture on Lessons from the Crisis

Field Walk for Culturstruction as part of St John's Eve celebrations Link

Lecture. ‘Deranging Memory: Institutions and Proclamations,’ Art|Memory|Place, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, April 2016. Link

‘Branding Dublin,’ City Intersections, Dublin, November 2012 Link

Occupy the Future,’ Creative Time Summit, National College of Art and Design, Dublin, October 2016. Link

Walkshop. Historical perspectives on Sheriff Street, Playful City Conference, Design Meets Play, 17 October 2017 Link

Programme essay for Olwen Fouéré's Riverrun Link

Lecture to this art-based project on mapping Dublin's port

Interviewed about Science/Politics Pairing Scheme of the Royal Irish Academy, KildareFM, Kildare Focus, 4 June 2015.

‘Is our budget strategy in tune with the Constitution,’ Irish Times (8 October 2014) 12. Link

‘From hero to zero: Uganda fails its HIV test, and what we should do about it,’ Huffington Post (23 May 2014); http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/gerry-kearns/uganda-hiv_b_5370975.html Link

Part of the academic team supporting the Upstart Collective with their Granby Park Pop-Up Park Link

Borderlands and Identities in Suspension: Thinking with Kate Nolan’s Lacuna - a talk associated with an exhibition of photography.

Lecture on 'The Casement Project and Empathic Memory' Link

Lecture on Good Fences make Good Neighbours

‘Power, poverty and legitimation in the urban landscape,’ field-walk for Nimble Spaces, Camphill Community, Callan, May 2015. Link

A field walk and lecture as part of Re:Collecting, a project of Commonage and the Butler Gallery about the St John's priory site in Kilkenny Link

‘The Famine and the Workhouse in Callan,’ Field-walk for the Abhainn Rí Festival, Callan, July 2015.

‘An Altered Audience: The Geography of School Demographics,’ annual lecture to the Association of Geographical Teachers of Ireland, Thurles, October 2013 Link

‘An historical introduction to the film Hunger (dir. Steve McQueen, 2008),’ Capital Irish Film Festival, Washington DC, December 2009 Link

‘Geopolitics, Empire, and the Bomb,’ panel member for discussion at Virginia Festival of the Book, Charlottesville VA, March 2010.

‘Bodies, buildings, and dance,’ Biennial Pop Up Art Festival, Dublin, June 2012.

Plenary talk to seminar on Art and Heritage

Deranging Colonial Memory. Lecture associated with Rita Duffy exhibition, Alternate Truth.

Lecture on 'Commodification and Postcolonial Memory'

Lecture on planning spaces for longer lives part of the Beltaine festival Link

ACTUP, a lecture to the Arts and Health Check up, Checking confreence, LAB, Dublin Link

‘A “milder” form of HIV does not mean we can ignore its prevention,’Newstalk.com (2 December 2014); http://www.newstalk.com/OPINION:-A-milder-form-of-HIV-does-not-mean-we-can-ignore-its-prevention Link

Walking through history, a walking tour of the Granby Park neighbourhood as part of the Granby Park Pop-Up Park, Dublin, September 2013 Link

Interviewed about the budget of Government of Ireland, on Midlands 103 Radio, ‘Midlands Today with Will Faulkner,’ 8 October 2014.

Panel member for discussion of the Artist as Citizen, RTÉ Radio 1, Arts Tonight, Monday 24 November 2014, archived by RTÉ at http://www.rte.ie/radio1/arts-tonight/ Link

Interviewed about Homophobia and AIDS in Ireland, Ian Yates and Chris Donoghue, Newtalk Breakfast, 1 December 2014; archived at (from 18.00 minutes) http://www.newstalk.com/player/shows/Breakfast/70802/what_you_missed_xmas_shopping_hivaids__galway_races Link

Historical workshops and walk for young people at Bradóg Youth Services Link

Advice on policy with respect to academic collaborations Link

2105. Radio interview with Carolina Ihle and Laura Rodriguez, ‘Desde La Ventana’ Radio UACh Programme, Sponsored by the Faculty of Architecture, Urbanism and Geography, University of Valdivia, Chile: http://arquitectura.uach.cl/noticia.php?codigo=16772 (September 10). Link

‘Conversation with La Veronal choreographer, Marcus Morau,’ Dance Days, Galway, May 2013 Link

Interviewed about Art and Geography on Minneapolis-St Paul, Metro Cable Network Channel 6, TV programme, The Bat of Minerva, Minneapolis, 18 October 2012

Totems, the Liz Roche Dance Company. Academic member of creative team for dance performance. Link

Recent Postgraduates

  Graduation Student Name University Degree Thesis
2015 Martin Millerick Maynooth University M Litt The Roman Catholic Communities of Cloyne Diocese, Co. Cork, 1700-1830
2017 Gisele Maynooth University M Litt Cultural and Political Geographies of the AIDS Crisis in Ireland
2018 Fearghus Ó Conchuir Maynooth University Ph.D. The Artist as Citizen: Choreographing the National Brand