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Dr Jennifer Ridden

Lecturer in Modern European History Room: David Myers Building C348 Tel: (61 3) 9479 5082 Fax: (61 3) 9479 1942 Email: j.ridden@latrobe.edu.au Qualifications: BA (Hons) Syd., PhD London

My research interests and supervise postgraduates in the histories of Ireland (including Northern Ireland), Britain, the British Empire, and their Historiographies, between the 18th and 20th centuries. Fields of special interest are: the Irish in Australia; Irish perspectives on Empire, Nationality, and Race; National, Imperial & Settler identities; Ethnic and Religious Conflict in Britain, Ireland, and Colonial societies; Social and Political Theory; Citizenship, Civil Society, Liberalism, and 19th-century Political History; Transnational History and Migration.

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Selected Publications:
‘The Limerick gentry: competition, defence and reform after the 1798 Rebellion, in Gearoid OTuathaigh, Liam Irwin, & Matthew Potter (eds), Limerick: history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county (Dublin, Geography Publications, 2008) – Irish ‘County History & Society’ series

‘The forgotten history of the Protestant Crusade: religious liberalism in Ireland’, Journal of Religious History (special issue in memory of Prof Patrick O’Farrell and Tony Cahill) vol.31, no.1 (Feb 2007), pp. 78-102.

‘Ireland’ (6,000 words) in Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine, and Ann Curthoys (eds), Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, Palgrave, London, 2005, pp. 264-275.

‘Britishness as an imperial and diasporic identity’, in Peter Gray (ed), Victoria’s Ireland? Irishness and Britishness 1837-1901, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2004, pp. 88-105.

‘Irish Reform between the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine’, in Joanna Innes and Arthur Burns (eds), Re-Thinking the Age of Reform, Cambridge University Press and Past & Present Publications, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 271-294.

Forthcoming:
“Making Good Citizens”: Irish Elite Approaches to Empire, National Identity and Citizenship, Past & Present monograph series, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge (forthcoming).

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