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| Sharron P. Schwartz
completed her BA (Hons) degree in
European History at the School of Slavonic and East European Studies,
University of London. Sharron worked for several years as a history tutor
for the Department of Lifelong Learning, University of Exeter, and
launched the Cornish Global Migration Programme under the aegis of the
Institute of Cornish Studies at Murdoch House in 1999 and was the
documentary researcher for the Cornish Mining World Heritage Site Bid,
Heritage and Environment Section, Cornwall County Council. She completed
her doctorate in Cornish Studies at the University of Exeter entitled
'Cornish Migration to Latin America: A Global and Transnational
Perspective' in 2003. She was Research Fellow in Migration Studies at the
Institute of Cornish Studies from 2004-2006. She currently runs the
Cornish Mining Heritage Programme as an Honorary University Fellow with
the Department of History at the University of Exeter and is working on a
British Academy funded project in conjunction with Professor Graham Davis
of Bath Spa University entitled:
Networks of Metalliferous Mining Migration in the
Nineteenth Century Transatlantic World: the Cornish and Irish – a
Comparative Study.
Sharron is currently working as a freelance historical consultant. Recent work includes research for the Cornish Mining World Heritage (WHS) Office to ascertain the potential market for overseas tourists' visits to the Cornish Mining WHS for the Cornish Mining WHS Office, DACOM and Visit Cornwall, as well as research on overseas mining communities with Cornish connections. Current work includes interpretation for the Heartlands Mining Heritage Centre at the former South Crofty Mine and the compilation of a social history booklet for the Mineral Tramways Project. She is also involved in building up the 3Diaspora Project with a team of academics, geologists, 3D and remote sensing specialists and videographers, from Ireland, Britain and Australia which will use the latest technology to explore the Cornish Diaspora of the C19th and C20th. Her current research interests are:
Sharron is the author of prize-winning
Lanner: A Cornish Mining Parish (1998), and has published numerous
articles on Cornish migration, mining and gender. Among her most recent
works are ‘Exporting the Industrial Revolution: the Migration of Cornish
Mining Technology to Latin America in the Early Nineteenth Century’,
New Perspectives in Transatlantic Studies, Macpherson and Kaufman,
(eds.), New York 2002; ‘Cornish Migration Studies: An Epistemological and
Paradigmatic Critique’, Cornish Studies: 10, Exeter, 2002;
'Migration Networks and the Transnationalisation of Social Capital:
Cornish Migration to Latin America, a Case Study', Cornish Studies:
13, in Philip Payton (ed.), Exeter, 2005;
‘Bridging “the Great
Divide”: the Evolution and Impact of Cornish Translocalism in Britain and
the USA, Journal of American Ethnic History, 25 (Winter–Spring),
169–89, 2006.
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