WHAI Executive Committee (2010)
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The WHAI Executive Committee was approved each year at the annual general meeting held at the association's conference. The committee listed on the association's website in 2010 was as follows. Affiliations and research interests are as given at that time.
President: Dr Maryann Valiulis
Maryann Valiulis was President of the WHAI. She was Director of the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies and its Research Unit at Trinity College Dublin and editor of Gender and Power in Irish History (Irish Academic Press). At the time she was completing a book on gender ideologies in the Irish Free State.
Secretary: Dr Mary McAuliffe
Mary McAuliffe held a PhD in medieval history from Trinity College Dublin and lectured on women in Irish history, gender and feminist historiography and the histories of sexualities at Women's Studies, School of Social Justice, UCD. Her research interests included medieval Irish women and power, female representations and identities in Irish history, and Irish feminist histories. She co-edited Palgrave Advances in Irish History.
Treasurer: Dr Jennifer Redmond
Jennifer Redmond was an Irish Research Council for the Humanities and Social Sciences (IRCHSS) Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Department of History, NUI Maynooth, having completed her doctoral research at Trinity College Dublin in 2008. Her research centred on Irish emigration to Britain in the twentieth century, particularly women's emigration; her project "Regulating Citizenship" explored Irish emigration and return during the Second World War using travel permit records at the National Archives.
Executive Committee Member: Dr Sonja Tiernan
Sonja Tiernan was a Government of Ireland Fellow in the Centre for Gender and Women's Studies at Trinity College Dublin. She received her PhD from University College Dublin in 2007 and held the National Library of Ireland history research studentship in 2007–8, during which she compiled a research guide to women in Irish history. She lectured on Irish women's history, literature and popular culture and was writing a biography of Eva Gore-Booth for Manchester University Press.
Executive Committee Member: Dr Carla King
Carla King was a Lecturer in Modern History at St Patrick's College, Drumcondra (a college of Dublin City University). She studied at UCD and the University of London, taught European, Russian, American and women's history, and published on Michael Davitt.
Executive Committee Member: Dr Sandra McAvoy
Sandra McAvoy taught Women's Studies at University College Cork. Her research interests included the history and politics of reproductive rights in Ireland, with published work on abortion in mid-twentieth-century Ireland, on reproductive rights activism from 1983 to 2008, and on Irish women's campaigns for a Criminal Law Amendment Act, 1912–1935.
Executive Committee Member: Mary Clancy
Mary Clancy lectured and wrote on the history of women from the late 1980s and was one of the founding lecturers in women's studies in Galway. Her teaching interests included women in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Ireland, emigration, work, the West of Ireland, oral history, suffrage and citizenship. Her publications include work on women's contributions to Oireachtas debates in the Irish Free State, 1922–1937, and on campaigning for the vote in early twentieth-century Galway, in Louise Ryan and Margaret Ward (eds), Irish Women and the Vote (2007).