Seamus Metress
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Seamus Metress (born 1933)[citation needed] is professor emeritus of anthropology at the University of Toledo, Ohio.[1] He has been teaching at the university level for over 30 years. He received his Ph.D. from Indiana University[which?] in 1971. Also, he attended The University of Notre Dame, when it was an all-male college.
- Areas of Interest: Race and Ethnicity, Medical Anthropology, Conflict in Northern Ireland
- Research: Biocultural Anthropology, Irish Studies and Ethnic Conflict
- Field Research projects in Northeast Ireland and the Great Lakes Region.
Bibliography
[edit]Metress has published over 30 books and numerous articles. A partial list includes:
- Man in Ecological Perspective (Editor, 1972)
- Man in Evolutionary Perspective (Editor, with C. Loring Brace, 1973)
- Aging and Health: Biologic and Social Perspectives (with Cary S. Kart and Eileen K. Metress, 1978)
- Listen, Irish People! (published by Todd & Honeywell, Inc., 1979) ISBN 0-89962-007-8
- The Irish-American Experience: A Guide to the Literature (1981)[2]
- Euro-American Elderly: An Ethnic Bibliography (with Eileen K Metress, 1983)
- The hunger strike and the final struggle (1983)
- Nutrition, the Aged, and Society (with Cary S. Kart, 1984)
- A Regional Guide to Informational Sources on the Irish in the United States and Canada (Public Administration Series : Bibliography, P 1841) (1986)
- Aging, Health, and Society (with Cary Steven Kart and Eileen Metress, 1988)
- Human Aging and Chronic Disease (with Cary S. Kart and Eileen K. Metress, 1992)
- The American Irish and Irish Nationalism: A Sociohistorical Introduction (1995)
- The great starvation: An Irish holocaust (1996)
- Irish In North America A Regional Biography (with Donna Hardy-Johnston, 1999)
- Irish in Toledo: History and Memory (Editor, with Molly Schiever, 2005)
- Irish in Michigan (Discovering the Peoples of Michigan Series) (with Eileen K. Metress, 2006)
References
[edit]- ^ "Professor Emeritus". University of Toledo. Archived from the original on 27 August 2025. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
- ^ O'Neill, Daniel P. (1982). "Review of The Irish-American Experience: A Guide to the Literature; A Portrait of the Irish in America". Journal of American Ethnic History. 2 (1): 96–97. ISSN 0278-5927. JSTOR 27500252. Retrieved 27 August 2025.
Further reading
[edit]- University of Toledo faculty biography at the Library of Congress Web Archives (archived 2001-11-07)
- Co-Author, Aging, Health and Society (ISBN 0-86720-406-0)