Welcome and Congratulations, Dr. Tara Quinn!
As we close the first month of the new term, I would like to share some exciting news
on behalf of International and Area Studies. I am overjoyed to announce that Professor
Tara Quinn has accepted a career-line Assistant Professorship shared between Transform
and the College of Humanities. Welcome and congratulations, Dr. Quinn!
As some of you who have worked with her may already know, Professor Quinn is a specialist
of contemporary Sri Lanka, where she has worked both as an advocate and as a researcher.
She moved to the University of Utah in January 2023 from the UK, where she earned
a PhD at Coventry University’s Centre for Trust, Peace, and Social Relations. Her
research interests are expansive and interdisciplinary. They include land rights,
postwar
displacement, and the gendered dynamics of peace-building, as well as indigenous engagement with development projects, and the legacies of colonialism.
displacement, and the gendered dynamics of peace-building, as well as indigenous engagement with development projects, and the legacies of colonialism.
Since joining the University of Utah as a postdoctoral fellow, she has designed and
taught both a Peace and Conflict Studies course on land, power, and resistance, and
the International Studies core course, INTL 3000: Foundations of International Studies.
In her new role, Dr. Quinn will be instrumental in the development of a 5000-level
capstone course for all International and Area Studies majors—a course to help launch
our students into the wide world beyond the U as thriving professionals, lifelong
learners, and engaged citizens.
Again, congratulations to Dr. Quinn on this significant career milestone!
Again, congratulations to Dr. Quinn on this significant career milestone!
Dr. Hugh Cagle
Director of Diplomacy and International Studies
Associate Professor
Department of History
Director of Diplomacy and International Studies
Associate Professor
Department of History