Jennifer Redmond

Dr. Jennifer Redmond is Associate Professor in Twentieth Century Irish History in the Department of History at Maynooth University and formerly the Director of the MA in Irish History (2014-19). She is also one of the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion representatives to the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.

She is the Chair and main proposer of the successfully funded COST Action HIDDEN: History of Identity Documentation in European Nations which brings together scholars in different disciplines across the EU and its affiliated members to examine issues of identity documentation, migration and citizenship from the twentieth century to the present day. The network runs from October 2022 to October 2026 and incorporates five thematic Work Groups with public facing as well as academic outputs.
Jennifer is also a member of the Motherhood Project at Maynooth University, which is leading the way in examining cultural representations of motherhood and the way that mothers are depicted in popular culture, film, literature and the media. Jennifer brings her research in the area of motherhood and work and motherhood and citizenship to the project. The Motherhood Project is member of the European Union Horizon 2020 funded research network on contemporary European motherhood, involving researchers from Vilnius University in Lithuania and Uppsala University in Sweden. Jennifer is also part of the Intersectional Humanities Research Strength in Arts and Humanities Institute at Maynooth University which brings together leading European scholars whose research addresses key contemporary issues of intersectional experience, politics, and justice from contemporary and historical perspectives.

She was the Director of The Albert M. Greenfield Digital Center for the History of Women’s Education at Bryn Mawr College as part of her Council on Libraries and Information Resources (CLIR) Postdoctoral Fellowship with a joint appointment between Special Collections and the History Department between 2011 and 2013. As Director, Jennifer built a digital repository on the history of women’s education at the college and successfully led digital humanities conferences and grant applications.
Between 2009-2011 she was an IRCHSS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, Maynooth University, mentored by Professor Jacqueline Hill working on a project on Irish people in Britain during the Second World War. Dr. Redmond 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 was published by Liverpool University Press in 2018 as Moving Histories which was long-listed for the 2020 Michel Déon Prize, a joint prize awarded in alternate years by the Royal Irish Academy (funded by the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade) in Ireland and the Académie française in France. 
Her research interests include migration, women’s and gender history, Irish social history, citizenship, identity and identity documentation and digital humanities. Dr Redmond was previously Chair of the Faculty of Arts, Celtic Studies and Philosophy Research Committee, Chair of the Maynooth University Decade of Commemorations Committee (2015-23) and a member of the Social Research Ethics Committee for the University (2019-22).
Jennifer is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society, a fellow of the Mellon Centre for Migration Studies (Queen's University Belfast) and a visiting fellow of the Centre for Contemporary History, Trinity College Dublin. She is a member of the executive committee of the Irish Historical Society and as such sits on the board of Irish Historical Studies journal. She also sits on the Editorial Board for the leading international journal, Women's History Review and for the Documents in Irish Foreign Policy series, a joint initiative of the National Archives of Ireland and the Royal Irish Academy. She was the President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland (2014-2017). She is a former executive committee member of the Church of Ireland Historical Society and was Vice Chair of the Royal Irish Academic Historical Studies Committee up to 2021. Dr Redmond has acted as an external examiner for , South East Technological University, Dublin City University, Mary Immaculate College (University of Limerick) and Trinity College Dublin. Follow Jennifer on Bluesky @jenniferredmond.bsky.com  
Dr. Redmond normally teaches the following courses: HY254: Population Change in Post-Famine Ireland; HY276 Gender and History, HY219 Modern Ireland: Twentieth Century; HY395 The Irish in Twentieth Century Britain; HY697 Gender and History in Britain and Ireland; HY833 a research tutorial for first year PhD students and contributes to HY6007 (MA in Irish History) Debates and Controversies and IS201 Gender and Sexuality in Society and Culture, an elective stream available to second year undergraduates. She occasionally teaches HY218 Modern Ireland: 19th Century.
Dr. Redmond welcomes inquiries for research supervision for M.Litt or PhD candidates or postdoctoral fellows in any of the areas mentioned above or the following in modern Irish or comparative history:

•        social history,

•          how gender has been experienced in different historical eras

•         women’s work,

•          gender roles,

•         women’s experiences of the First and Second World wars,
•         oral histories

•          migration in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries,
•          motherhood,

•         sexualities,

•          digital humanities,

•          community groups and professional organisations,

•         identity,

•          demography and statistical analyses of population trends,

•          masculinities,

•          identity documentation and identity regimes across Europe that regulate citizenship, identity and migration.

Studies that examine the intersections of historical legal and political analyses of different time periods and a deep engagement with different kinds of source materials are welcomed. Interdisciplinary and intersectional studies and a productive engagement with theories of gender and sexuality are encouraged.

I can offer expertise in designing studies that employ qualitative and quantitative methodologies with specific emphasis on ethical approaches to historical research, especially when researching sensitive topics. I also have expertise in creating historical digital projects that I would encourage students to engage in as part of their postgraduate studies. I would like to supervise historical research that incorporates case studies, comparative analyses and histories that bring to light under-researched areas of women, gender and identity in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.