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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 has recently
attracted British Academy funding for a 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 about Cornish mining communities overseas and research to ascertain the potential market of overseas tourists for the Cornish Mining WHS Office, DACOM and Visit Cornwall. 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. Her more recent works include
‘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; (with B. Deacon) 'Cornish
identities and migration: a multi-scalar approach', Global Networks:
a Journal of Transnational Affairs, 7:3, 289-306, July 2007. |
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