David Nally

David Nally is a political geographer at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on the relationship between famine and society, the politics of disaster relief, as well as the historical geographies of underdevelopment and theories of political violence. He studied history and geography at University College Cork before moving to Vancouver to pursue his doctoral degree at the University of British Columbia. He grew up in County Clare in the west of Ireland, a region severely affected by the 1840s famine. His book, Human Encumbrances: Political Violence and the Great Irish Famine, is published by University of Notre Dame Press, Notre Dame, Indiana, USA, 2011.