“His informal but highly informative lectures are his strongest selling point as a professor…More importantly, he is very enthusiastic about helping students seriously interested in being historians.”
— Student Evaluation
Academic Position
Treasurer of the American Conference for Irish Studies (West)
Book 2021
NK Harrington (ed), The Rose and Irish Identity: Seeding, Blooming, Piercing, and Withering, (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021)
Chapter 2021
NK Harrington, “Ergot to Be Kidding Me: Rye are the Eighteenth Century Volunteers Heroes, Gods, and Degenerates?” in The Rose and Irish Identity: Seeding, Blooming, Piercing, and Withering ed. NK Harrington (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021),
39-52.
Chapter 2018
NK Harrington, “Union and Toleration in Ireland,” in Ireland, Irish America, and Work, ed. Donna Potts and Amy L. May (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018), 43-64.
I go by Nick Harrington and my reason for making this website is to help connect with people looking for an academic. So if you’re a fabulously wealthy individual that wants to hire someone that knows a lot about moderate paramilitary nationalism in 19th century Irish politics, I’m your guy. If you just want to connect with a perpetual student of humanity and the world (with a specialty in World History, Imperialism, Irish History, European History, and World War I), then I’m probably your guy too.
I try to think of myself as a scholar, a writer, and a teacher. But in all honesty, I’m always a student that remains fascinated that the more one learns, the more one understands they know nothing. The exchanging of information is always learning new complexity that adds new layers of understanding. When I teach, I always think of myself as one of the students.
I originally got into academics to read and write. As anyone accumulates knowledge and ideas, I believe that there is a responsibility to complete the circle and to share what one’s learned. I have written much but have only started my journey of having these works published. I look forward to exchanging knowledge with other people.
Employment
2009-Present
Professor, Department of History
Washington State University Vancouver
Historic Preservation and Maintenance
First Unitarian church of Portland
2012-2013
Professor, Department of International Relations
portland state university
2014
Manuscript Reviewer
Routledge Publishing
2012
Reviewer
Oxford University Press
2008
2006-8
2005-8
2001-3
Head Student Instructor of History
University College Cork
Student Instructor of History
University College Cork
Computer Laboratory Technician
University College Cork
University Funding Supervisor
Portland State university
Awards, Certificates, Classes Planned and Taught
2019
Nomination for Best Online Instructor
2015-Present
Member of Center for Postsecondary and Economic Success
2010-Present
Evaluation of International Educational Credentials
2003-Present
Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act Certificate
2003-Present
Discrimination and the Oregon Educator Certificate
2003-Present
Praxis Exam
2002-Present
California Basic Educational Skills Test
Courses Taught
Gen Ed 110: World Civilization I (to 1500)
Gen Ed 111: World Civilization II (since 1500)
Hist 101: European Civilization from the Beginning of the Near East to the Renaissance
Hist 102: European Civilization from the Renaissance to the Present
Hist 105: Roots of Contemporary Issues
Hist 105: Roots of Contemporary Issues (Online)
History 120: World Civilization 1
History 121: World Civilization 2
Intl 226A: Introduction to European Studies
Intl 223R: European Studies
Hist 300: Writing About History
Hist 305: Roots of Contemporary Issues for Transfer Students (Hybrid)
Hist 305: Roots of Contemporary Issues for Transfer Students (Online)
Hist 341: Rome: Republic and Empire
Hist 436: Modern Imperialism
Hist 450: Europe Since 1945
Hist 455: The Great War 1914-1920
Hist 499: Special Issues
Conference Presentations
Apr. 2021 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Denver, CO
“The Hiburning of Portland and the Anatomy of a Catastrophe”
Jun. 2021 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Derry, IE
“Fenian and Protestant History in 19th Century Portland”
Jul. 2020 Global Irish Diaspora Congress
Durban, South Africa
“The End of Northwestern Fenianism”
This particular event was scheduled and the paper accepted, though the event was cancelled due to COVID
Oct. 2019 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Portland, OR
Conference Organizer
Established venue and funding
Establishing schedule and chairs
Mar. 2019 American Conference for Irish Studies
Boston, MA
“The 1919 Officers' Petition: Redmondites Transitioning from Nonexistence to Damnatio Memoriae”
Oct. 2018 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Jackson Hole, WY
“Heroes, Gods, and Degenerates: Perceptions of the 18th Century Volunteers”
Jun. 2018 American Conference for Irish Studies
Cork, Ireland
“Conflict and Toleration in Ireland, 1890-1910”
Oct. 2017 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Spokane, Washington
Featured speaker for “‘Union’: An Interdisciplinary Roundtable”
Aug. 2017 Global Irish Diaspora Congress
Dublin, Ireland
“Fenians in the Forrest: The Strange Battle for Ireland in the Oregon Frontier.”
Oct. 2016 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Missoula, Montana
“Stephen McCormick and Portland Fenianism”
Oct. 2015 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Rapid City, South Dakota
“‘…he will some day meet a Fenian and wish he had died in childhood:’ Fenianism as Advocate and Adversary in Oregon.”
Feb. 2015 Northwest World History Association
Seattle, Washington
"Martial Movements and Terrorist Tactics: A World View of 19th Century Fenianism"
Oct. 2014 American Conference for Irish Studies West
Santa Fe, New Mexico
“The Last Imperator Scottorum: Redmond and Irish Empire”
Nov. 2014 North American Conference on British Studies
Portland, Oregon
“The Thought of John Redmond”
Mar. 2013 19th Century Historical Association
Sacramento, California
“Irish Nationality and Movement”
Mar. 2013 Nineteenth Century Studies Association
Fresno, California
“Irish Nationalism: International and National”
Oct. 2012 Northwest World History Association
Portland, Oregon
“Irish Nationality”
Jun. 2012 World History Conference
Albuquerque, New Mexico
“‘The 10th Irish Division has virtually ceased to exist:’ The Rise and Fall of a Martial Race.”
Mar. 2011 Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Seattle, Washington
“National Volunteers”
Oct. 2010 Northwest World History Association
Eugene, Oregon
“Things I’ve Learned Not to Ask a World History Class”
Sep. 2008 Jack Lynch Conference
University College Cork
Organized and prepared reception for Taoiseach (Prime Minister) Brian Cowen and other dignitaries
Jun. 2008 The Black Hand of Irish Republicanism: The Fenians and History
University of Ulster, Belfast and Queen’s University Belfast
“The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Republican Brotherhood”
Jan. 2006 1916 Conference
University College Cork
Organized and prepared reception for President Mary McAleese