Christine Kinealy is an Irish historian, author, and founding director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University.
[3] She earned her PhD from Trinity College Dublin, where she completed her dissertation on the introduction of the Poor Law to Ireland.
[citation needed] Following completion of her graduate studies, she worked in educational and research institutes in Dublin, Belfast and Liverpool.
She did so in the place "where so many egregious relief policies had been made that resulted in so many tragic deaths.”[5] In 2007 she became a tenured professor at Drew University’s Caspersen Graduate School in Madison, New Jersey.
[citation needed] While a professor at Drew University she documented the Irish hunger, from about 1845 to 1852, one of the first humanitarian crises covered by global media.