Staff profile

Dr Jennifer Ridden

Lecturer

Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

School of Historical and European Studies

DMB E132, Melbourne (Bundoora)

 

Qualifications

BA (Hons-Sydney), PhD (London).

Area of study

History
European Studies

Research interests

European History

- Irish history

Migration

- Transnational History and Migration

Political Theory and Political Philosophy

- Citizenship, Civil Society, Liberalism, and 19th-century Political History

Teaching Units

  • HIS1MEA - Modern Europe A: From Monarchies to Nations, 1760-1890.
  • HIS2/3IRL - Ireland in the Nineteenth Century.
  • HIS2/3RAR - Riots and Rebellions.

Recent Publications

  • Ridden, J (forthcoming) Making Good Citizens: Irish Elite Approaches to Empire, National Identity and Citizenship. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
  • Ridden, J 2008, ‘The Limerick Gentry: competition, defence and reform after the 1798 Rebellion. In Limerick: history and society: interdisciplinary essays on the history of an Irish county, ed. Gearoid OTuathaigh, Liam Irwin, & Matthew Potter. Dublin: Geography Publications.
  • Ridden, J 2007, ‘The Forgotten History of the Protestant Crusade: religious liberalism in Ireland’. Journal of Religious History. 31(1): 78-102.
  • Ridden, J 2005, ‘Ireland’, in Companion to Women’s Historical Writing, ed. Mary Spongberg, Barbara Caine, and Ann Curthoys. London: Palgrave.
  • Ridden, J 2004, ‘Britishness as an Imperial and Diasporic Identity’, in Victoria’s Ireland? Irishness and Britishness 1837-1901, ed. Peter Gray. Dublin: Four Courts Press.
  • Ridden, J 2003, ‘Irish Reform between the 1798 Rebellion and the Great Famine’, in Re-Thinking the Age of Reform, ed. Joanna Innes & Arthur Burns. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.