The WHAI Executive Committee is approved on an annual basis at the AGM held at the WHAI Conference (usually each November).
The Current WHAI Executive Committee Consists of:
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President: Dr. Maryann Valiulis
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Maryann Valiulis is the current President of the WHAI. She is Director of the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies and its Research Unit at Trinity College Dublin. She is editor of the book, Gender and Power in Irish History, recently published by Irish Academic Press (see http://64.151.79.225/acatalog/Forthcoming_Titles.html for further details of the book ). She is currently completing a book on gender ideologies in the Irish Free State. | Director, Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies, School of Histories and Humanities, Trinity College Dublin Email: maryann [dot] valiulis [at] tcd [dot] ie |
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Dr. Mary McAuliffe |
Mary McAuliffe, Secretary, WHAI, holds a Ph.D in medieval history from the School of History, University of Dublin, Trinity College. She lectures on Women in Irish history, gender/feminist historiography and the histories of sexualities at Women's Studies, School of Social Justice, UCD. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of medieval Irish women and power, female representations and identities in Irish History, feminist and gender historiography and Irish feminist histories. She recently co-edited Palgrave Advances in Irish History |
Lecturer, UCD Women's Studies, Dublin Email: mary [dot] mcaulif [at] ucd [dot] ie |
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Treasurer Dr. Jennifer Redmond
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Jennifer Redmond is a part-time lecturer in the History department at NUI Maynooth. In addition, she works at the Centre for Academic Practice and Student Learning (CAPSL) as a Postgraduate Development Officer. She has recently completed her PhD thesis on Irish women's emigration history at Trinity College Dublin. Her research interests include diaspora and migration theory and history, Irish women's twentieth century history, social history and lay associations. | Lecturer/Postgraduate Development Officer, NUIM/TCD Email: jmredmon [at] tcd [dot] ie |
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Sonja Tiernan is Government of Ireland Fellow in the Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies at Trinity College Dublin. Sonja received her PhD from University College Dublin in 2007 and held the National Library of Ireland history research studentship 2007-8. While at the National Library she compiled a research guide to women in Irish history http://www.nli.ie/en/manuscript-research-guides.aspx Sonja lectures on Irish women’s history, literature and popular culture. She is currently writing a biography of Eva Gore-Booth for Manchester University Press and a volume including the first ever publication of ‘Fiametta,’ a previously unpublished play by Gore-Booth is currently in press. |
Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences Post-Doctoral Fellow, CGWS, TCD E-mail; stiernan [at] tcd [dot] ie |
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Executive Committee Member Dr Carla King |
Carla King is a Lecturer in Modern History at St Patrick’s College, Drumcondra (a college of Dublin City University). She studied in UCD and the University of London. She teaches European History, Russian History, American History and Women’s History, has published various books and articles relating to Michael Davitt and is working on a biography of his later life. | Lecturer, Department of History, St. Patrick’s College, Drumcondra, Dublin 9 email: Carla [dot] King [at] spd [dot] dcu [dot] ie |
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Dr. Sandra McAvoy |
Sandra McAvoy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin and the National University of Ireland. She teaches Women's Studies in University College Cork. Her research interests include: the history and politics of reproductive rights in Ireland. Published articles include: "Before Cadden: Abortion in Mid-Twentieth Century Ireland", in The Lost Decade: Ireland in the 1950s, edited by Dermot Keogh, Finbarr O'Shea and Carmel Quinlan, Cork: Mercier, 2004; "From Anti-Amendment Campaigns to Demanding Reproductive Justice: the changing landscape of abortion rights activism in Ireland 1983-2008", in Jennifer Schweppe (ed.) The Unborn Child, Article 40.3.3 and Abortion in Ireland: Twenty-Five Years of Protection?: Liffey Press, 2008; and "Sexual Crime and Irish Women's Campaigns for a Criminal Law Amendment Act 1912-1935", in Maryann Valiulis (ed.), Towards NewHistories in Ireland: Writing Gender History: Irish Academic Press, 2008. | Lecturer, University College Cork Email: sandra [dot] mcavoy [at] ucc [dot] ie |
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| Executive Committee Member Mary Clancy |
Since the late 1980s, Mary Clancy has lectured and written on the history of women and was one of the founding lecturers in women’s studies in Galway. Teaching interests include women in 19th and 20th century Ireland, historiography of women’s and gender history, emigration, work, the West of Ireland, European women’s studies, life stories and oral history, suffrage and citizenship. Publications include ’Aspects of Women’s Contribution to the Oireachtas debate in the Irish Free State, 1922 – 1937’ in Maria Luddy and Cliona Murphy (editors), Women Surviving: Studies in Irish Women’s History in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Dublin: Poolbeg, 1990), pp 206-232, ’Women of the West: campaigning for the vote in early twentieth century Galway, c.1911-c.1915 in Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (editors) Irish Women and the Vote: Becoming Citizens (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2007), pp 45-59. | Lecturer & Course Co-ordinator, European Women’s Studies, NUIG, Galway, Ireland E-mail: mary [dot] clancy [at] nuigalway [dot] ie |
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