Lauren Jean

Dissertation Fellow, 2023-24

Lauren Jean is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of History and an Irish Studies graduate minor in the Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies. She is primarily interested in the social and cultural history of late medieval, Irish-speaking Ireland (1300-1650), with additional research interests in the cultural history of nationalism in early twentieth-century Ireland. Her dissertation project relies on historical analysis inflected by linguistic anthropology to elucidate the gendered aspects of honor and shame in the late medieval Maguire lordship of Fermanagh.

Lauren has been awarded a Dominica and Frank Annese Dissertation Fellowship for 2023-24. She was previously selected as an Alternate for the Ireland Fulbright Student Award in 2015, received the Larkin Dissertation Fellowship from the American Conference of Irish Studies in 2020, and was the recipient of a Notre Dame Dean’s Fellowship in the 2017 cohort.