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Professor Senia Paseta

Professor Senia Paseta

Co-Director

Senia Paseta is a historian of modern Ireland with a particular interest in the history of education, religious identity formation and political movements and ideas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has published on the development of a Catholic university elite in pre-independence Ireland and worked on a number of aspects of women’s history, including the history of feminism and women’s education in Ireland.

selina todd

Professor Selina Todd

Co-Director

Selina Todd is a Professor of Modern History and a Fellow of St Hilda’s College. Her research interests focus on working-class and women’s history in modern Britain. She’s on the editorial boards of Past and Present and the Royal Historical Society’s Studies in History monograph series. Her first book, Young Women, Work, and Family in England, 1918-1950 won the Women’s History Network Book Prize. Her second book, The People: the Rise and Fall of the Working Class, 1910-2010 was published by John Murray in 2014 and quickly became a bestseller.

Alexandra Hughes-Johnson

Dr Alexandra Hughes-Johnson

Research Coordinator

Alexandra is a historian of nineteenth and twentieth-century Britain with a particular interest in women and political activism. She is the Research Coordinator for the Women in the Humanities Research Programme and Knowledge Exchange Research Fellow at the University of Oxford. She is currently working on a book chapter that explores the establishment of new suffrage organisations during the First World War and an article that focuses on the establishment of the Women’s Record House and the memorialisation of the suffrage campaign during the interwar period.

laura patterson

Dr Laura Paterson

British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow, History Faculty, St Hilda's College, Oxford

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Dr Eve Worth

Jenny Wormald and Women in the Humanities Junior Research Fellow, St Hilda's College, Oxford

charmian mansell

Dr Charmian Mansell

Women in Humanities Postdoctoral Writing Fellow

harriet mercer

Ms Harriet Mercer

Women in the Humanities Clarendon Scholar, Pembroke College, Oxford

deborah ramkhelawan

Ms Deborah Ramkhelawan

Women in the Humanities Clarendon Scholar, St Cross College, Oxford

sasha rasmussen

Ms Sasha Rasmussen

Women in the Humanities Clarendon Scholar, St Hilda's College, Oxford

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Professor Suzanne Aspden

Associate Professor of Music and Fellow of Jesus College, Oxford

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Professor Ros Ballaster

Professor of Eighteenth-Century Studies in the Faculty of English and University and Professorial Fellow of English at Mansfield College, Oxford

marilyn booth

Professor Marilyn Booth

Khalid bin Abdullah Al Saud Professor for the Study of the Contemporary Arab World, Oriental Institute and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford

deborah cameron

Professor Deborah Cameron

Professor of Language and Communication and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford

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Ms Catriona Cannon

Deputy Librarian and Keeper of Collections at the Bodleian Library and Fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford

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Dr Sos Eltis

Tutorial Fellow in English and Vice-Principal of Brasenose College, Oxford

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Dr Clare Morgan

Department for Continuing Education and Director of the Kellogg Centre for Creative Writing

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Dr Claudia Pazos-Alonso

Associate Professor in Portuguese and Brazilian Studies and Fellow of Wadham College, Oxford

josephine quinn

Dr Josephine Quinn

Assistant Professor in Classics and Fellow of Worcester College, Oxford

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Dr Eve Worth

Jenny Wormald and Women in the Humanities Junior Research Fellow, St Hilda's College, Oxford

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Elish Angiolini

Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford

melissa benn

Melissa Benn

Writer, journalist and campaigner

lynne brindley

Lynne Brindley

Master of Pembroke College, Oxford

andrew dilnot

Andrew Dilnot

Warden of Nuffield College, Oxford and Chairman of the UK Statistics Authority

adrienne hopkins

Adrienne Hopkins

Senior Equality Advisor, Equality and Diversity Unit, University of Oxford

karen obrien

Karen O’Brien

Head of the Humanities Division at the University of Oxford

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Andrew Pitt

Global Head of Investment Research at Citi Bank and major supporter of Women in the Humanities

louise richardson

Louise Richardson

Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford

rebecca surender

Rebecca Surender

Head of Department for Social Policy and Intervention and Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford

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Sheila Forbes

Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College