Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Netherlands
fellow
Justin Dolan Stover
2022-2023
Home institution
Idaho State University
Country of origin (home institution)
United States
Discipline(s)
Modern history
Political Sciences
Theme(s)
Contemporary violence & Justice
Environment, Sustainability & Biodiversity
Peace & conflict
Fellowship dates
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Biography
Hello! Begroeting! My name is Justin!
I am an Associate Professor of Modern European History at Idaho State University. My research examines the greater First World War period, with particular focus on Ireland, environmental destruction, and conflict. I grew up outside Detroit, MI, USA and was educated at Central Michigan University (B.Sc., 2003), University College Dublin (M.A., 2005), and Trinity College Dublin (Ph.D., 2011).
I enjoy traveling and am looking forward to exploring Amsterdam and the Netherlands as an NIAS Fellow. In my spare time I paint watercolours, read books on psychology and philosophy, and collect vinyl. I love a good flea market and will always stop into a bookstore.
Research Project
Gendered Compensation Bias & Environmental Restoration after the Irish Revolution, 1923-32
My principle research question asks the extent to which post-conflict indemnity and compensation, as well as landscape restoration, reconciled former combatants to the post-revolution Irish Free State. It also considers gender bias and compensation restrictions as inherent hindrances to reconciliation.
This project examines the effectiveness of various personal compensation and property reconstruction schemes introduced after the Irish Revolution (1916-23) to determine the effectiveness of compensation and environmental reconstruction as tools of conflict resolution. It uses methodologies of conflict transformation and environmental history to develop a more sophisticated understanding of the nature and impact of political violence and reconciliation during and after the Irish Revolution. In doing so it will reassess the motivation behind post-revolution compensation schemes, evaluate their success in transforming a post-conflict society by offering pensions to ex-combatants and encouraging British loyalists to rebuild their estates and remain in the new Irish state, and examine the role of the environment as an actor in war and conflict transformation.
Research Interests:
Post-conflict reconciliation and compensation; Irish revolutionary history; Landscape and memory in conflict transformation