CARA DELAY (European women’s and gender history; modern Britain and Ireland) received her PhD in Comparative History from Brandeis University. Her research focuses on Irish women, religion, and culture in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

Dr. Delay is currently completing her manuscript, Ireland’s Catholic Women, 1850-1920. Her work has been published in Eire-Ireland and U.S. Catholic Historian, and her “Churchings and Changelings Childbirth in Modern Irish History” is forthcoming in Women in Irish Culture and History (Irish Academic Press, 2010). She has received grants and awards from the American Association of University Women and the American Conference for Irish Studies.

Fall 2009:
HIST 441.001 Research Seminar: Fairies, Fantasy and Folklore

HIST 101.018, 020


Spring 2010:
HIST 640.090 (graduate)
ST: Gender & Sexuality in Modern Europe


HIST 102.018

Contact:
Cara Delay, Assistant Professor

Email: delayc@cofc.edu
Office: Maybank 327
Phone: 953-7597

Courses:

HONS 391 ST: The Great Hunger-Famine in Ireland

HIST 241 ST: Women in Europe, 1500-1800

HIST 241 ST: Women in Europe, 1800-present

HIST 241 ST: Modern Ireland

HIST 299 The Historian’s Craft: Birth, Death, and the Human Lifecycle

HIST 441 Research Seminar: Fairies, Fantasy, and Folklore