About Me

I am a historian, writer and reviewer. My writing has appeared in The Irish Times, The Guardian, The Financial Times, and various magazines and journals. I am the presenter of Ireland’s Edge at the Other Voices festivals, and I also present the Ireland’s Edge podcast. I have worked with BBC radio and TV as a BBC New Generation Thinker. Last year I was an artist-in-residence at the Centre Culturel Irlandais in Paris.

My first book, on the history of food, is out now with Bloomsbury, and you can learn more about my research here. I was previously a researcher in Economic History at the LSE, and lectured in Economic History at the University of Warwick. I worked with the Royal Historical Society, where I co-authored landmark reports on race and gender in UK History; I was also an Editorial Fellow at History Workshop, the radical history collective. I hold a D.Phil in Economic & Social History from Balliol College, Oxford, and previously studied History at Trinity College, Dublin.

You can follow me on Twitter @ChrisKissane.