Jump to content

Marian Irish

Add links
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Marian D. Irish
Born1909
Scranton, Pennsylvania
Died2001[1]
NationalityAmerican
Alma mater
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
Doctoral studentsMary M. Lepper

Marian Doris Irish (1909 – 2001) was an American political scientist. She was Chair of the Department of Government at Florida State University, and was the Charles O. Lerche Jr. Professor of International Relations at the School of International Service in American University. She was also the President of the Southern Political Science Association.

Life and career

[edit]

Irish was born in 1909 in Scranton, Pennsylvania.[2] She attended Barnard College, graduating in 1930 with a B.A. degree.[2] After completing her degree, she worked for a year at Lafayette College.[2] Irish then obtained an M.A. in 1931 from Bryn Mawr College, and a PhD in 1939 from Harvard University.[2] After completing her PhD, she joined the faculty of Florida State University (then the Florida State College for Women).[2] She remained there for 33 years, and for fourteen years she was the Chair of the Government Department there.[2][3] In 1967, Irish moved to the School of International Service at American University, where she became the Charles O. Lerche Jr. Professor of International Relations.[4] She retired in 1974.[2]

Irish studied the politics of the United States in the mid-1900s. She coauthored the American politics textbook The Politics of American Democracy with James Prothro, which was released in 5 editions by 1973.[5] With Elke Frank, Irish co-authored Introduction to Comparative Politics: Thirteen Nation States, which was re-published in a second edition in 1977.[6] Irish and Frank also coauthored the 1975 book U.S. foreign policy: Context, conduct, content, which is an overview of American foreign policy after the end of World War II.[7] U.S. foreign policy focused largely on the roles of the legislative and executive branches of the United States government in the making of American foreign policy.[8] Irish published a symposium series in the Journal of Politics which, on the 30th anniversary of that journal's publication, was reprinted as an essay collection, called Political Science: Advance of the Discipline.[9]

Irish was the 1956–1957 President of the Southern Political Science Association.[3] She was also active in the development of higher education in the state of Florida throughout the mid-20th century.[2] In 2002, the Southern Political Science Association created an annual award in her memory, called the Marian Irish Award.[10] Florida State University also created a Marian D. Irish Professorship.[11]

Selected works

[edit]
  • The Politics of American Democracy, coauthored with James Prothro (1973)
  • U.S. foreign policy: Context, conduct, content (1975)
  • Introduction to Comparative Politics: Thirteen Nation States, coauthored with Elke Frank (1977, 2nd Ed)
  • Political Science: Advance of the Discipline (1978)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Irish, Marian Doris". Virtual International Authority File. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Michael A. Baer; Malcolm E. Jewell; Lee Sigelman (1991). Political Science in America: Oral Histories of a Discipline. University Press of Kentucky. pp. 80–126.
  3. ^ a b "Contributors". The Journal of Politics. 20 (2): 257–258. May 1958. doi:10.1017/S002238160001032X.
  4. ^ Cleveland, Gordon B. (February 1967). "News and Notes". The Journal of Politics. 29 (1): 231–238. doi:10.1017/S0022381600023938. S2CID 222451844.
  5. ^ Stephens, Stephen V. (1 October 1973). "Political Values and Professional Values in Conflict: Irish and Prothro's the Politics of American Democracy". PS: Political Science & Politics. 6 (4): 400–403. doi:10.2307/418192. JSTOR 418192.
  6. ^ "New: Introduction to Comparative Politics". Comparative Politics. 10 (1). October 1977.
  7. ^ Harris (1 November 1975). "Review Irish U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content". Perspective. 4 (9): 235.
  8. ^ Randolph, Kent (January 1977). "Review U.S. Foreign Policy: Context, Conduct, Content". International Affairs. 53 (1): 160–161. doi:10.2307/2615639. JSTOR 2615639.
  9. ^ Grove, J. W. (1 December 1969). "Review Political Science: Advance of the Discipline". Canadian Journal of Political Science. 2 (4): 528–529. doi:10.1017/S0008423900025464.
  10. ^ "Previous Marian Irish Award Winners". Southern Political Science Association. 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
  11. ^ "Undergraduate Department of Political Science". Florida State University. 2020. Retrieved 21 December 2020.
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Marian_Irish&oldid=1256628112"