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Dr Jennifer Wellington was a Visiting Research Fellow in 2022-23.
Dr Jennifer Wellington is Assistant Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin. Her research focuses on the cultural history of warfare in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She graduated from the Australian National University with degrees in Law and English and the Tillyard Prize, and completed her PhD in history at Yale University, where her dissertation was awarded the Hans Gatzke Prize. Prior to joining UCD, she was a postdoctoral researcher at King's College London. Her first book, Exhibiting War: The Great War, Museums, and Memory in Britain, Canada, and Australia was published by Cambridge University Press in 2017.
At the IAS, she researched British and British imperial war trophies, and attempts to regulate or eradicate trophy-taking, over the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This research forms part of her book project, a history of war trophies: taking them, keeping them, displaying them, and conflicts over their legitimacy and return. By tracing continuities and changes in trophy-taking, this research analyses the political power of objects, processes of national myth-making, and developments in ideas of ‘civilising’ war.
