Staff profile
Dr Jennifer Ridden
Lecturer
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
School of Historical and European StudiesDMB E132, Melbourne (Bundoora)
- T: +61 3 9479 5082
- F: +61 3 9479 1942
- E: j.ridden@latrobe.edu.au
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.


