Juliana Adelman

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Juliana Adelman has a BSc in Biological Sciences from Stanford University, an MSc in Science Communication from Dublin City University and a PhD in History from the National University of Ireland, Galway. In her previous life as a biology student she was interested in bacterial pathogenesis. Her current research focus is on the history of Ireland and Britain during the nineteenth century. Her first monograph examined popular science and science education in nineteenth-century Ireland. She is currently working on the history of relationships between humans and other organisms, particularly animals and diseases. Her second monograph examined human-animal relationships in nineteenth-century Dublin.  She also has an interest in food history.

Juliana enjoys engaging the public in historical research in a variety of ways. With journalist Catherine Cleary and producer Claire Cunningham she created the radio series 'History on a Plate' for RTE. For over six years she wrote a history of science column for the Irish Times. During the pandemic, she co-created two podcasts. 'The Comfort Feed' returned to the subject of food and history with Catherine Cleary. 'What would Shackleton do?' explored the advice of polar explorer Ernest Shackleton in troubled times with the help of Kevin Kenny from the Shackleton Museum in Athy.

Juliana is an editor of Irish Economic and Social History (an international peer-review journal) and a founding member of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine Network Ireland.

  

Book

Year Publication
2021 Juliana Adelman (2021) Civilised by beasts: animals and urban change in nineteenth-century Dublin. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. [Link]
2020 Juliana Adelman (2020) Civilised by beasts: animals and urban change in nineteenth-century Dublin. Manchester: Manchester University Press. [Link]
2009 Juliana Adelman (2009) Communities of science in nineteenth-century Ireland. London: Pickering & Chatto.

Book Chapter

Year Publication
2024 Juliana Adelman;Stuart Mathieson (2024) 'Science and religion before and after Darwin' In: Oxford Handbook of Religion in Modern Ireland. Oxford, UK : Oxford University Press.
2019 Juliana Adelman (2019) 'Towards an environmental history of nineteenth-century Dublin' In: Nature and the environment in nineteenth-century Ireland. Liverpool : Liverpool University Press.
2018 Juliana Adelman (2018) 'Practically only an English grazing farm: the Irish landscape and English beef' In: Proceedings of the Oxford Symposium on Food and Cookery. London : Prospect Books.
2018 Adelman J. (2018) 'Second City of science?: Dublin as a center of calculation in the British imperial context, 1886-1912' In: Urban Histories of Science. [DOI]
2016 Juliana Adelman (2016) 'Food and diet, 1740 to the present' In: The Cambridge social history of Ireland, 1740 to the present. Cambridge : Cambridge University.
2011 Juliana Adelman and Eadaoin Agnew (2011) '‘Introduction’' In: Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin : Four Courts Press.
2011 Juliana Adelman (2011) 'The industrial resources of Ireland by Robert Kane' In: The Oxford history of the Irish book. Oxford : Oxford University Press.

Peer Reviewed Journal

Year Publication
2020 Juliana Adelman and Ciaran O'Neill (2020) 'Love, consent and the sexual script of a Victorian affair in Dublin'. Journal of the History of Sexuality, 29 (3):388-417. https://doi.org/10.7560/JHS29304
2018 Adelman J; (2018) 'Invalid Cookery, Nursing and Domestic Medicine in Ireland, c. 1900'. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, . [DOI]
2018 Adelman J;Haushofer L; (2018) 'Introduction: Food as Medicine, Medicine as Food'. Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, . [DOI]
2017 Adelman, J (2017) 'Contagious Bovine Pleuropneumonia, Germs and Public Health in Dublin, 1862-1882'. Social History of Medicine, 30 :71-91. [DOI]
2014 Adelman, J;Ludlow, F (2014) 'The past, present and future of environmental history in Ireland'. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature, 114 :359-391. [DOI]
2013 Juliana Adelman, Francis Ludlow, Poul Holm (2013) 'Environmental history in Ireland'. Environment and History, 19 :247-252.
2012 Juliana Adelman (2012) '‘An insight into commercial natural history: William Hinchy, Richard Glennon and the trade in giant Irish deer remains’, Archives of Natural History'. Archives of Natural History, :16-26.
2009 Juliana Adelman (2009) 'Animal knowledge: zoology and class-ification in nineteenth-century Dublin'. Field Day Review, :109-121.
2008 Juliana Adelman (2008) 'The agriculture diploma in Queen’s College, Belfast, 1849-63, and science education in nineteenth-century Ireland'. IRISH ECONOMIC AND AND SOCIAL HISTORY, :51-67.
2005 Juliana Adelman (2005) 'Evolution on display: promoting Irish natural history and Darwinism at the Dublin Science and Art Museum'. British Journal for the History of Science, :411-436.

Conference Publication

Year Publication
2019 Morley, T., Adelman, J. and Connolly, J. (2019) Wetscapes conference Bog Commissioners maps

Edited Book

Year Publication
2011 Juliana Adelman, Eadoin Agnew (Ed.). (2011) Science and technology in nineteenth-century Ireland. Dublin: Four Courts Press,

Book Review

Year Publication
2015 Adelman, J (2015) Reforming Food in Post-Famine Ireland: Medicine, Science and Improvement, 1845-1922. LONDON: BREV

Editorial

Year Publication
2018 Adelman, J;Haushofer, L (2018) Introduction: Food as Medicine, Medicine as Food. CARY: ED [DOI]

Note

Year Publication
2013 Ludlow F.;Adelman J.;Holm P. (2013) Environmental history in Ireland. NOTE [DOI]

Other Publication

Year Publication
2022 Adelman, Juliana (2022) Newton's Chicken - Science in the Kitchen. [DOI]
2022 Adelman, Juliana (2022) Women Against Cruelty: Protection of Animals in Nineteenth-Century Britain. [DOI]
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Creative Outputs

Year Title Type
2020 What Would Shackleton Do? Recording

Research Interests

My research interests include the economic and social history of modern Ireland, the history of disease, the history of science, history of medicine, urban history and environmental history. I am interested in supervising graduate students in any of these areas.

Research Projects

Title Role Description Start date End date
Public health in crisis: negotiating public health policy in Emergency Ireland, 1939-1950 (Kelly Adamson) DCU PI 01/09/2021 31/08/2024

Current Postgraduate Students

Student Name Degree Supervision
Adamson ,Kelly PhD Supervisor
Durkan ,Ann Marie PhD Supervisor
Muinos Olivas ,Hector PhD Supervisor

Modules Coordinated

Term Title Subject
2021 HY336
2023 HY344
2022 HY328
2022 HY206
2023 HY116
2022 HY509
2022 HY107
2022 HY115
2022 HY117