Royal Historical Society elects Dr Mary McAuliffe as new Fellow
Posted 19 July, 2024
The UK's foremost society promoting the scholarly study of the past has elected (opens in a new window)Dr Mary McAuliffe as its newest Fellow.
The UCD historian was among 221 new Fellows, Associate Fellows, Members and Postgraduate Members elevated by the (opens in a new window)Royal Historical Society.
Fellowship to the 156-year-old society is awarded to those who have made an original contribution to historical scholarship, typically through the authorship of a book, a substantial body of scholarly work, or through other efforts to spread historical research.
Dr McAuliffe is a historian at University College Dublin and is the Director of Gender Studies at the university.
She holds a PhD from the School of History and Humanities from Trinity College Dublin.
She specialises in Irish women’s history, and the sexual violence of Ireland's revolutionary period, as well as gender history, gendered narratives of trauma, and history of sexuality.
A former President of the Women's History Association of Ireland (2011-2014) and member of the National Archives of Ireland Advisory Council [2012-2017], she sits on the advisory board of the Irish Association of Professional Historians, and is also a member of the UCD Humanities Institute and the executive committee of the UCD Centre for Gender, Feminisms, and Sexualities.
The RHS is an international community of historians and includes Fellows from twelve countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Finland, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and United States.
The majority of its Fellows hold academic appointments at universities, specialising in a very wide range of fields but also include museum curators, librarians, heritage specialists, history publishers, independent researchers and writers.
Its newest members have a similarly wide range of historical interests, and include individuals working in universities, culture and heritage, education, the civil service and broadcasting, together with independent and community historians and genealogists.
By: David Kearns, Digital Journalist / Media Officer, UCD University Relations
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