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First Name
Shelby
Last Name
Zimmerman
Affiliation
Trinity College Dublin
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Keywords
Ireland, poverty, history of death, history of medicine, institutional history, Irish poor law, 19th century urban history
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About Me

I am a PhD candidate at Trinity College Dublin researching the medicalisation of death in the Dublin workhouses in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. I received my B.S. in History and Museum Studies from Towson University and my MPhil with Distinction in Modern Irish History from Trinity College, Dublin. In 2018, I presented my MPhil research on the South Dublin Union’s response to the smallpox epidemic of 1871-3 at the Royal College of Physicians of Ireland (RCPI) as a finalist for the Kirkpatrick History of Medicine Award. I co-curated the Little Museum of Dublin’s new exhibition on Victorian Medicine.

Recent Publications
Media Coverage
Country Focus
Ireland
Expertise by Geography
British Isles, Ireland, United Kingdom
Expertise by Chronology
19th century
Expertise by Topic
Medicine, Urban History