Jennifer Redmond

Dr. Jennifer Redmond is Lecturer in Twentieth Century Irish History in the Department of History at Maynooth University and Director of the MA in Irish History. She was the Director of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College. She also held a Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship with a joint appointment between Special Collections and the History Department between 2011 and 2013. Between 2009-2011 she was an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, Maynooth University, mentored by Professor Jacqueline Hill. She completed her undergraduate degree at University College Dublin and an M.Phil and PhD at the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, the latter on the discourses surrounding Irish female migration to Britain during the first decades of Irish independence which she is currently drafting as a monograph. Her research interests include migration, women’s history, Irish social history and digital humanities. Jennifer is a member of the Royal Irish Academic Historical Studies Committee. 
Jennifer is a member of the Board of the Herstory initiative, a fellow of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Queen's University Belfast) and a member of the executive committee of the Church of Ireland Historical Society. She was the President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (2014-2017). Follow Jennifer on Twitter @RedmondJennifer 

Jennifer normally teaches the following courses: HY254: Population Change in Post-Famine Ireland, HY276 Gender and History, HY311 Modern Ireland, HY348 The Irish in Twentieth Century Britain and contributes to HY607 (MA in Irish History) Debates and Controversies.