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Prof. Dr. Patrick J. Houlihan

Patrick J. Houlihan is Assistant Professor of Twentieth-Century European History at Trinity College Dublin. Before taking up his position at Trinity, he was a Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. He earned his PhD in History from the University of Chicago. Patrick’s book, Catholicism and the Great War: Religion and Everyday Life in Germany and Austria-Hungary, 1914-1922 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015), was awarded the Fraenkel Prize of the Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide. His research interests include modern European and global history, especially concerning themes of war, peace, and ideology. His current research focuses on the history of religious humanitarianism in the era of the world wars.