DrDan Armstrong

Visiting Lecturer/Assistant Professor

School of History

  • Visiting Lecturer/Assistant Professor
    School of History
  • University College Dublin, School of History, Newman Building Belfield Dublin 4

BIO

Dan Armstrong is a Visiting Assistant Professor, with his position being funded by a grant from the Leverhulme Trust. During 2025-26, he was a Teaching Fellow in Medieval History at UCD. Dan’s work focuses on papal relations with the periphery of Europe, especially the British-Irish Isles.

 

Before joining UCD, Dan was a Mellon Fellow at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies (Toronto), a Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow at the Institute of Historical Research (London), and a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Dan has published articles in the Haskins Society Journal and Anglo-Norman Studies, as well as edited a book on 'Borders and the Norman World: Frontiers and Boundaries in Medieval Europe', which was published in December 2023 by The Boydell Press. He has discussed his work on podcasts produced by the BBC and History Hit. At present, he is working on a monograph provisionally entitled: The Papacy and the Anglo-Norman Kingdom of England, c.1066-c.1135: Communicating with ‘Another World’. 

UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN APPOINTMENTS

  • Teaching Fellow in Medieval History
    University College Dublin, History, Dublin, Ireland1 Sep 2025 - 31 May 2026
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
    University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland2 Sep 2024 - 31 Aug 2025
  • Visiting Assistant Professor
    University College Dublin, Ireland1 Jun 2026 - 31 May 2027

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

  • Mellon Fellow
    Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto, Canada1 Sep 2023 - 31 Aug 2024
  • Research Fellow
    University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom1 Apr 2022 - 31 Dec 2022
  • Royal Historical Society Centenary Fellow
    School of Advanced Study, London, United Kingdom1 Oct 2021 - 31 Mar 2022

DEGREES

  • BA (Hons)
    University of Cambridge

CERTIFICATIONS

  • BA
    University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom2014 - 2017
  • MA
    University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom2017 - 2018
  • PhD
    University of St Andrews, St Andrews, United Kingdom2018 - 2022