Hazard, Benjamin

Benjamin Hazard, BA, MA, Ph.D. is a Research Fellow with the School of History at University College Cork. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Dr Thomas O’Connor of NUI Maynooth, was published as a monograph: Faith and patronage: the political career of Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire, c.1560-1629. In September 2007, Hazard was awarded the Louvain 400 Postdoctoral Fellowship by the Mícheál Ó Cléirigh Institute at University College Dublin. He has an established research record in peer-reviewed academic publications of international standing. Since 2001, he has contributed to the work of the Corpus of Electronic Texts (CELT) Project and maintains an interest in Computer Applications for the Humanities, especially the creation of corpora and text analysis. To date, his other research interests and publications relate to politics and society in early-modern Europe; Irish relations with the Iberian Peninsula and the papacy; state formation; cultural politics and historiography; concepts of memory and identity; military history and migration; early-modern travel; piracy and trade; sigillography; scribal culture and manuscript transmission; Gaelic settlement; and the history of medicine. Más información.