Margaret M. Scull
Dr Margaret M. Scull, BA Boston University, MA King’s College London, PhD King’s College London
Dr Maggie Scull is a historian of modern Britain and Ireland. After graduating with a PhD from King’s College London in 2017, she has held teaching and research fellowships at KCL, the National University of Ireland, Galway, and Syracuse University London. Her multi-disciplinary research explores the relationship between religion and politics in the contemporary period; particularly the ‘soft power’ influence religious leaders still possessed in British and Irish politics after the Second World War. Oxford University Press published her first book, The Catholic Church and the Northern Ireland Troubles, 1968-98 in 2019, which won the British Association of Irish Studies annual book prize. Her current project examines the role of funerals as a form of protest in conflict societies.