| Institution: | Catherine Nash (c.nash{at}qmul.ac.uk) is a feminist cultural geographer and Reader in Human Geography in the Department of Geography, Queen Mary, University of London. Her research interests are in geographies of national and other forms of belonging and identity. Much of her work has focused on these themes in Ireland and Northern Ireland. She is currently exploring ideas of ancestry, origins and descent in relation to gender, ethnicity, ‘race’ and nationhood in popular genealogy and its newly geneticized forms with the support of an Economic and Social Research Council Research Fellowship. Her recent publications include ‘Genealogical Identities’, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space 20: 1, 2002, and ‘Genetic Kinship’, Cultural Studies 18: 1, 2004. |
