Resume

Dr Andrew Shields gained both his Bachelors and Masters Degrees from University College, Galway, specialising in Modern and Irish History and then gained a doctorate in Modern History from the University of Toronto.

He was a tutor and teaching assistant at that University while doing his research and, prior to moving to Sydney, was also a research assistant in History at Queens University, Belfast. He has been a full-time tutor in the Department of History at the University of NSW since the start of 2002.