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Our global faculty come from a range of academic interdisciplinary backgrounds (such as anthropology, history, law, politics, sociology) as well as holding experience, expertise and ongoing engagement in international and national policy and practice, creating a vibrant and rich classroom experience.

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Dr Mary McAuliffe

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

Mary McAuliffe is a historian, lecturer, and Director of Gender Studies at UCD. She specialises in Irish women's / gender history, traumas histories of gendered and sexual violence of Ireland's revolutionary period and histories of sexualities.

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Dr. Aideen Quilty

Associate Professor, Head Of School

I am Associate Professor of Gender Studies and Social Justice UCD. I am also the Associate Dean of Social Sciences UCD with academic responsibility for all social science undergraduate degrees, certificate and diploma programmes including the largest undergraduate degree programme in UCD, BSc Social Sciences.

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Dr. Krisna Ruette-Orihuela

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

I am Lecturer/Assistant professor at the School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, at UCD. My academic research focuses on the intersection of racial, ethnic, and gender identities, racism and anti-racism, transformative peacebuilding, territorial struggles, ethno-racial movements, state multiculturalism, social justice, and historical memory.

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Dr. Ernesto Vasquez del Aguila

Lecturer/Assistant Professor

I am a medical anthropologist, Assistant Professor in Social Justice at the UCD School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice. I have worked as a researcher and taught at under-graduate and post-graduate levels in a range of academic institutions across several countries, including: Universidad Nacional Mayor de San Marcos (Lima, Peru); Georgetown University (Washington, DC, USA), University of the Philippines (Manila, the Philippines).

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Dr. Dorota Szelewa

Associate Professor

I am an Assistant Professor in Social Justice, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland. I am also affiliated with the Institute of Social Policy, Warsaw University and ICRA Foundation, Warsaw, Poland.

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Associate Professor Ursula Barry

Emeritus Associate Professor (RTA)

Emeritus Associate Professor, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice.
Specialising in Gender Studies and and gender equality policy analysis.
Board Member UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms and Sexualities (CGFS)
Member of Geary Institute of Public Policy, UCD.
Member of International Association of Feminist Economics (IAFFE)

Administration

UCD Gender Studies

Hanna Sheehy-Skeffington Building, School of Social Policy, Social Work and Social Justice, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland.
T: +353 1 716 8682 | E: genderstudies@ucd.ie