Máirín MacCarron

Máirín MacCarron was appointed to the Department of Digital Humanities at UCC in 2019. Prior to this role, she held posts in the Departments of History at the University of Galway and the University of Sheffield.

Elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2020, her research has been celebrated in the Science magazine Wired ('Scientists reveal ancient social networks using AI and X-rays' by Sophia Chen, 21 March 2019) and reviewed in The New York Review of Books ('Wimple Networks' by Marina Warner, 23 June 2022).

Awarded prizes include: the Dr Garret FitzGerald Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, which she received in 2012 and held at the University of Galway; and the Irish Historical Research Prize 2021 for her book Bede and Time: computus, theology and history in the early medieval world (Routledge: London and New York, 2020).

MacCarron is Principal Investigator of Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON) which runs from 2022 to 2026.

MacCarron's research interests centre on: Time reckoning (Computus) and Chronology in the Middle Ages; Gender and Women; the writing of History; and Digital approaches to studying the past, especially Network Science and Social Network Analysis.

In 2022, she was awarded an Irish Research Council Consolidator Laureate grant for Time for Women? Gender, Chronology and Historiography before AD 900 (GENCHRON). The project's overarching aim is to integrate gender into a re-evaluation of time and chronology in medieval sources and modern historiography.

She was Co-Investigator on the research project Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives funded by the Leverhulme Trust and based at the University of Sheffield from 2018–2021; and she was Co-Investigator on the Digital Edgeworth Network funded by the 'UK-Ireland Collaboration in Digital Humanities Networking Programme' and jointly based at Cork and Oxford, from 2020–2021.

MacCarron's teaching interests have developed from her research agenda, and she contributes to several of the department's core undergraduate modules and postgraduate programmes. She is committed to embedding digital skills and digital literacy in the classroom, and to integrating questions concerning gender and under-represented groups into the curriculum.

Module Co-ordinator: DH2009. Gender, Race and Digital Humanities; DH6012. Contemporary Practices in Publishing and Editing; DH6014. Digital Skills for Research postgraduates in the Humanities and Social Sciences; PG6010. Contemporary Practices in Publishing and Editing; PG6011. Digital Skills for Research postgraduates in the Humanities and Social Sciences