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Dr. John Morrissey B.A.,M.A.,Ph.D
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Biography:
Dr Morrissey graduated from Trinity College Dublin with a first class degree in Natural Science, majoring in Geography, in 1996. In 1997, he began an ESRC-funded PhD in Geography at the University of Exeter. His PhD research drew on postcolonial theory to explore the currents of imperialism and resistance in England’s first geopolitical imaginary in the early modern period, Ireland. After completing his PhD, Dr Morrissey taught at Exeter for a year before going to NUI Galway in 2001, where he lectures on political and cultural geography, geopolitics and international development. His current research explores the interventionary practices of US national security interests in the Middle East, with particular reference to US Central Command (CENTCOM). |
Research Interests
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Research Projects
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Project: US CENTCOM: The Historical Geopolitics of the Shaping of the Middle East ( RM2006) Role: Principal Investigator Description: Millennium Fund Research Project Award Start/End Dates: 01-JAN-06 / 31-DEC-06 |
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Project: War and American Identity ( UCC/NUIG) Role: Co-Investigator Description: Clinton Institute Research Project Award Start/End Dates: 01-SEP-06 / 30-JUN-08 |
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Project: IRCHSS FELLOWSHIP 2007 08 DR.J.MORRISSEY ( RCS626) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 10-SEP-07 / 24-AUG-09 |
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Project: Participatory Development: Bridging Academic Critique and Civic Engagement in Sarajevo, Bosnia ( D2141) Role: Principal Investigator Description: Community Knowledge Initiative (CKI) Learning and Teaching Innovation Award Start/End Dates: 01-JUL-11 / 30-NOV-11 |
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Project: EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AWARD JOHN MORRISSEY ( ROG1084) Role: ROLE_DESC Description: DESCRIPTION Start/End Dates: 17-SEP-12 / 31-DEC-13 |
Books
Morrissey, J., Nally, D., Strohymayer, U. and Whelan, Y. (2013) Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage.  [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2003) Negotiating Colonialism. London: HGRG, Royal Geographical Society. [Details] |
Book Chapters
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'The Imperial Present: Geography, Imperialism and its Continued Effects' In: Johnson, N., Schein, R. and Winders, J (eds). The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Cultural Geography. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'Historical Geography: Exploring the Past, Understanding the Present' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'Imperialism and Empire' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'Colonialism and Anti-Colonialism' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'Identity and the Nation' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'Imaginative Geographies and Geopolitics' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey,J. (2013) 'Illustrative Geographies and Visual Sources' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2013) 'Evidence and Representation' In: Morrissey, J. et al (eds). Key Concepts in Historical Geography. London: Sage. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2012) 'Foucault and the Colonial Subject: Emergent Forms of Colonial Governmentality in Early Modern Ireland' In: Duffy, P. and Nolan, W (eds). At the Anvil: Essays in Honour of William J. Smyth. Geography Publications: Dublin. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2012) 'Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics' In: Grondin, D (eds). War Beyond the Battlefield. London: Routledge. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2008) 'The Geoeconomic Pivot of the Global War on Terror: US Central Command and the War in Iraq' In: Ryan, D. and Kiely, P (eds). America and Iraq: Policy-Making, Intervention and Regional Politics. New York: Routledge. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) 'A Lost Heritage: The Connaught Rangers and Multivocal Irishness' In: McCarthy, M (eds). Ireland's Heritages: Critical Perspectives on Memory and Identity. Aldershot: Ashgate. [Details] |
Peer Reviewed Journals
| Morrissey, J. (2012) 'Colonial Biopolitics. Review of 'Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine''. Progress In Human Geography, 36 (6):831-833. [DOI] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2012) 'Podcast Steering of Independent Learning in Higher Education'. AISHE-J, 4 (1):1-9. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2011) 'Architects of Empire: The Military-Strategic Studies Complex and the Scripting of US National Security'. Antipode, 43 (2):435-470. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2011) 'Liberal Lawfare and Biopolitics: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror'. Geopolitics, 16 (2):280-305. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) 'Closing the Neoliberal Gap: Risk and Regulation in the Long War of Securitization'. Antipode, 43 (3):874-900. [DOI] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2009) 'Lessons in American Geopolitik: Kaplan and the Return of Spatial Absolutism'. Human Geography, 2 (2):36-39. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2009) 'Imperial Geopolitics'. Foreign Policy, May/June . [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2007) 'Cultural Geography: A Critical Dictionary of Key Concepts'. Area, 38 (4):476-478. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) 'Ireland’s Great War: Representation, Public Space and the Place of Dissonant Heritages'. Journal Of The Galway Archaeological And Historical Society, 58 :98-113. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) 'Cultural Geographies of the Contact Zone'. Social And Cultural Geography, 6 (4):551-566. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) 'Searching for Common Ground: Colonialism and Collaboration in Early Modern Tipperary'. Tipperary Historical Journal, 18 :25-30. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) 'Contours of Colonialism: Gaelic Ireland and the Early Colonial Subject'. Irish Geography, 37 (1):88-102. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) 'Geography Militant: Resistance and the Essentialisation of Identity in Colonial Ireland'. Irish Geography, 37 (2):166-176. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) 'Kilnamanagh and the Frontier: Surviving the New English of the Early Seventeenth Century'. Tipperary Historical Journal, 17 :101-113. [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2002) 'Encountering Colonialism'. Social And Cultural Geography, 3 (2):217-218. [DOI] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2001) 'England's First Geopolitical Imaginary: Deconstructing the Geographical Representations of Early Modern Ireland'. Irish Economic And Social History, 28 :76-77. [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. and Merriman, P. (1999) 'Historical Geography at the RGS-IBG Annual Conference'. Journal Of Historical Geography, 25 (3):389-392. [DOI] [ARAN Link] [Details] |
Other Journals
| Morrissey, J. (1997) 'Galbertstown and Fertiana: An Historical Perspective' Holycross Journal 1 :6-14. [Details] |
Conference Paper
| Morrissey, J. (2012) “Thinking Smarter About Defense”: Enabling Rapid Military-Economic Securitization. 108th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New York. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2012) Foucault and the Colonial Subject. People, Past, and Place: Studies in Irish Historical Geography Conference, NUI Maynooth. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2011) Deconstructing the Political and Cultural Ascriptions of Irishness. Space, Identity and the Authentic Symposium, Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) Experiences of Podcasting for Undergraduate Students. 8th Annual Galway Symposium, Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, NUI Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) Field-Based Learning: Participatory Development Theory Beyond the Laptop. Civic Engagement Symposium, Community Knowledge Initiative, NUI Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) Biopolitics on the New Frontier: US Juridical Warfare in the War on Terror. Ordnance: War, Architecture and Space, University College Cork. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2009) Rhetorics of Risk and Reconstruction: US Geoeconomic Calculation and the Long War of Securitization in the Persian Gulf. 105th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas. Conference Paper [Details] |
| J. Morrissey (2009) US Juridical Warfare: Strategies of Military Biopower. 105th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Las Vegas. Conference Paper [Details] |
| J. Morrissey (2008) The Derivative War in the Middle East: Risk, Preemption and the Political Economy of Securitization. 104th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Boston. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2007) US CENTCOM and the Middle East: Grand Strategy and the Exceptional Spaces of the Global War on Terror. 103rd Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2007) Shannon and Ireland’s Geopolitical Positioning in the Global War on Terror. 103rd Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) An Empire of Disorder: English Hegemony and the Projection of Power in Colonial Ireland. 102nd Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Chicago. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) Strategies of Resistance in Early Colonial Tipperary. 35th Annual Conference of the Group for the Study of Irish Historical Settlement, Clonmel, Co. Tipperary. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) 'Shaping the Central Region for the 21st Century’: CENTCOM and the Exceptional Spaces of Intervention. 6th European Social Science History Conference, Amsterdam. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) The Iraqi Mission Civilisatrice: Grand Strategy and the Exceptional Spaces of the Global War on Terror. The United States and Iraq: Reflections and Projections Conference, Clinton Institute for American Studies, University College Dublin. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) Visual Archives in Historical Research. 12th Annual HGRG Practising Historical Geography Conference, Queen's University Belfast. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) Narrating Ireland’s Heritages: The Connaught Rangers and the Possibility of Memory. Galway International Genealogical Conference, Oranmore, Co. Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) World War I and the Place of Ireland’s Dissonant Heritages. 101st Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, Denver. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) US Centcom and the Iraq War: Imaginative Geographies and the Circulation of Non-Knowledge. Conference of Irish Geographers, NUI Galway. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) Inactive Geographies of Memory: Forgetting Ireland’s Involvement in the British Army. 5th European Social Science History Conference Humboldt University, Berlin. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2003) Fighting Irish / Fighting Britishness: (Re)presenting the Connaught Rangers. 99th Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting, New Orleans. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2002) The Connaught Rangers: A Lost Heritage. Irelands Heritages Conference, GMIT Castlebar, Co. Mayo. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2002) New English Exclusivism and the 1641 Irish Rebellion. RGS-IBG Annual Conference, Queens University Belfast. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2001) Ethnicity and Resistance in Early Modern Ireland. 11th International Conference of Historical Geographers, Université Laval, Quebec. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2001) Negotiating Difference: Geographies of Self and Other in Early Modern Ireland. Conference of Irish Geographers, University College Cork. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2001) Recovering the Voices of Resistance: The Contact Zone in the Archives. RGS-IBG Annual Conference, University of Plymouth. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (1999) Fields of Conflict and Transformation: The Changing Cultural Context of Early Seventeenth-Century West Tipperary. RGS-IBG Annual Conference, University of Leicester. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (1998) Cultural Change in Seventeenth-Century West Tipperary, Ireland. Wessex Consortium Conference, Cumberland Lodge, Windsor Great Park, London. Conference Paper [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (1998) Geographies of Accommodation and Resistance in Early Colonial West Tipperary. 10th International Conference of Historical Geographers, University of Ulster. Conference Paper [Details] |
Invited papers
| Morrissey, J. (2012) The New Academic Subjectivity: Enabling Performance and Engagement in the Contemporary University. Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, NUI Galway. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2011) Podcast Steering of Independent Learning. Centre for Excellence in Learning and Teaching, NUI Galway. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) Critical Knowledge, Activism and the Academy. 10th Anniversary Symposium of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics, CUNY Graduate Center, New York. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) That This House Believes Barack Obama Will Continue to Disappoint. Literary and Debating Society, NUI Galway. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2010) The Imperial Present: Scripting US National Security Concerns in the Long War. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2008) CENTCOMs Middle East: Geopolitical Imaginings and Interventionary Practices. School of Public and International Affairs and the Institute for Society, Culture and Environment, Virginia Tech. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2008) The Political Economy of America’s Long War in the Middle East. Center for Place, Culture and Politics, The Graduate Center, City University of New York. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2007) The Force of Law Without Law: Exception, Exemption and the Global War on Terror. Department of Geography, University of Exeter. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2007) Ireland’s Great War: Representation, Public Space and the Place of Dissonant Heritages. Humanities Institute of Ireland, University College Dublin. Invited papers [ARAN Link] [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) Ireland and the First World War: The Politics and Selectivity of Remembrance. United States Military Academy, West Point (NY). Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) Mapping the Global War on Terror: The New Imperial Geopolitics. Department of Geography, University College Cork. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) Incorporating Memory / Memories of Incorporation: The Connaught Rangers of the Great War. Department of Geography, University of Liverpool. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) Ireland, the Great War and the Politics of Representation. Department of Geography, University of Cambridge. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) The Connaught Rangers: Multivocal Irishness and the Place of Dissonant Heritages. Galway Archaeological and Historical Society. Invited papers [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2000) Encountering Colonialism: The Changing Cultural Context of Early Seventeenth-Century West Tipperary. Department of Geography, University of Exeter. Invited papers [Details] |
Newspaper Articles
| Morrissey, J. (2006) Release of Geographer Detained in Israel. Irish Times. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2006) Israeli Detention of Geographer. Irish Times. Newspaper Articles [Details] |
Newsletter
| Morrissey, J. (1999) Report on the 10th International Conference in Historical Geography, Northern Ireland. Historical Geography Research Group Newsletter. Newsletter [Details] |
Workshops
| Morrissey, J. (2007) Visual Sources in Geographical Research. Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium 8th Annual Conference, Glencree Centre, Co. Wicklow. Workshops [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2005) Postgraduate Transferable Skills in Geography. Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium 6th Annual Conference, Glencree Centre, Co. Wicklow. Workshops [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2004) Deconstructing Images. Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium 5th Annual Conference, Glencree Centre, Co. Wicklow. Workshops [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2003) Theory and Representation. Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium 4th Annual Conference, Bellinter House, Co Meath. Workshops [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2002) Using Theory in Geography. Irish Postgraduate Training Consortium 3rd Annual Conference, Bellinter House, Co Meath. Workshops [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2002) Using Archives in Geography. 8th Annual HGRG Practising Historical Geography Conference, University of Durham. Workshops [Details] |
| Morrissey, J. (2000) The Geography Postgraduate Experience. 6th Annual HGRG Practising Historical Geography Conference, Institute of Historical Research, London. Workshops [Details] |
Honours and Awards
| Year: 2012. Title: NAIRTL National Academy Award for Research and Teaching Excellence |
| Year: 2011. Title: President's Award for Teaching Excellence |
| Year: 2010. Title: Fulbright US Institute Scholar Nomination |
| Year: 2007. Title: Government of Ireland IRCHSS Fellow |
| Year: 2008. Title: Visiting Scholar, Virginia Tech |
| Year: 2007. Title: Visiting Fellow, City University of New York |
| Year: 2006. Title: Visiting Lecturer, University College Cork |
| Year: 2002. Title: Royal Geographical Society Young Researcher Award |
| Year: 1997. Title: UK Economic and Social Research Council PhD Scholarship |
| Year: 1997. Title: University of Exeter PhD Studentship |
| Year: 1996. Title: Dissertation Distinction, Trinity College Dublin |
| Year: 1992. Title: All-Ireland Short Story Writing Champion |
Associations
| Association: Association of American Geographers, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society, Function/Role: Honorary Publicity Officer and Web Editor |
| Association: Social and Cultural Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Geographical Society of Ireland, Function/Role: Member |
| Association: Galway Archaeological and Historical Society, Function/Role: Member |
Committees
| Committee : Geography Research Committee |
| Committee : School of Geography and Archaeology Research Committee |
| Committee : College of Arts Taught Graduate Programme Committee |
| Committee : Geographical Sciences Committee of the Royal Irish Academy |
| Committee : Historical Geography Research Group of the Royal Geographical Society |
| Committee : Irish Environmental History Network |
| Committee : Conflicts, Rights and Security Research Cluster |
| Committee : Geopolitics and Governmentality Research Cluster |
Employment
| Employer: NUI Galway Position: Lecturer in Geography |
| Employer: University of Exeter Position: Lecturer and Tutor in Geography |
| Employer: University of Exeter Position: Tutorial Assistant in Geography |
| Employer: University College Cork Position: Visiting Lecturer in Geography |
| Employer: City University of New York Position: Visiting Fellow in Geopolitics |
Education
| Year 1996 Institution: Trinity College Dublin Qualification: BACHELOR OF ARTS Subject: Geography |
| Year 2000 Institution: University of Exeter Qualification: Phd Subject: Geography |
| Year 2012 Institution: NUI Qualification: Masters of Arts Subject: MA in Academic Practice |
Languages
| Gaeilge: |
| French: |
| Italian: |
Community Engagement
| In 2009/2010, I established an annual 1-day student symposium on ‘Enviro |
| I am a member of the ‘Geographical Sciences C |
| During the summers of 2002, 2003, 2004 and 2005, I worked with ‘Bu |
| In 2002 and 2003, I was involved in the NUI Galway Access Office programme ‘Sport for Success’, whic |
| I have had a number of letters published in the Irish Times respecting a variety of human and enviro |
| Over the last 10 years, I have given public l |
Other Activities
| Dr Morrissey has organised or co-organised the following conferences in recent years: - 3rd Annual Symposium on Environment, Society and Development, 2012 - 108th Association of American Geographers Annual Conference, 2012 |
Teaching Interests
| Dr Morrissey is a political and cultural geographer, with particular research and teaching interests in geopolitics, imperialism and international security. His teaching also explores broader questions of representation, especially the geopolitical and cultural discursive power of abstracted geographical knowledges. |
Recent Postgraduates
| PhD Lisa Hallinan, PhD (2012-2016; NUIG College of Arts Fellow) The Differánce of Dance Annaleigh Margey, PhD (2001-2004; funded by HEA PRTLI Cycle 2) Mapping the Irish Plantations, c.1580-1636 (External: Prof. Roger Kain) MLitt Stephanie Egan, MLitt (2006-2011 part-time; NUI Lady Gregory Scholar) The Irish-Palestinian Solidarity Campaign: Resistance and the Production of Knowledge (External: Prof. Brian Graham) Jacinta Moloney, MLitt (2003-2005) Unveiling Identities: Muslim Women and the Negotiation of Public Space in Galway (External: Prof. Gerry Kearns) MA Aileen Bellew, MA (2009-2010) Scripting Orientalism, Foreign Affairs Magazine, 2001-2003 (External: Prof. Neil Smith) Charles McLaughlin, MA (2009-2010) Imperial Visions of India in Punch Magazine in the Interwar Years (External: Prof. Neil Smith) Killian McCormack, MA (2010-2011) Sustaining Hegemony: Discourses of Securitization in Joint Force Quarterly (External: Prof. Neil Smith) Thomas Rush, MA (2010-2011) Popular Geopolitics, Affect and the ‘Other’ (External: Prof. Neil Smith |
Modules Taught
Internal Collaborators
| Kelly Coate, CELT Shane Darcy, Human Rights Niall Ó Dochartaigh, Sociology and Politics Kathy Reilly, Geography Anna Stanley, Geography Ulf Strohmayer, Geography |
External Collaborators
| Derek Gregory, Geography, University of British Columbia Gerry Kearns, Geography, National University of Ireland, Maynooth David Nally, Geography, University of Cambridge David Ryan, History, University College Cork Neil Smith, Anthropology, City University of New York Marilyn Young, History, New York Uuniversity |