Eric is Assistant Professor of European History at the University of New England, Special Graduate Faculty at the University of Guelph, Ontario, and Adjunct Graduate Faculty at Union Institute and University. Eric is especially interested in the evolution of national identity in the British Isles and in the history of popular culture in Europe. He is co-editor of
Nationalism in a Global Era: The Persistence of Nations (Routledge, 2007) and is author of
Making Ireland Irish: Tourism and National Identity since the Irish Civil War (Syracuse University Press, 2009). Eric is presently editing a volume tenitively entitled
Touring Beyond the Nation (forthcoming from Ashgate); this book contains work by both established and up-and-coming scholars in the field. He is reviews editor for the
Journal of Tourism History and is the editor/creator of
The Nationalism Project, a leading website devoted to the study of ethnicity and nationalism in global perspective.
