Deirdre Raftery
| Date of Birth: | 10 October 1962 |
| Address: | Dublin |
Deirdre Raftery is Professor of the history of education at UCD, and an elected Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. In June 2019 she was awarded the CHWS Distinguished Historian Award, at Notre Dame, USA. Her next book is a study of Loreto Education and M. Teresa Ball, foundress of the Loreto order. Deirdre Raftery's most recent book publications are (jointly): Nano Nagle, the Life and the Legacya (IAP, 2019), Transnationalism, Gender and the History of Education (Routeldge, 2017); Education, Identity and Women Religious, 1800-1950 (Routledge, 2016); Educating Ireland: Schools and Society, 1700-2000 (IAP, 2014), and History of Education: Themes and Perspectives (Routledge, 2013). Deirdre's IRC-funded DIASPORAEd project examined the role of the Irish female diaspora in nineteenth century schooling in Australia, where she was hosted by La Trobe University (2014), and worked at archival collections in Melbourne, Sydney and Ballarat. Her work funded by the Ireland-Canada University Foundation (University of Toronto, 2014), and the Fulbright Foundation (Boston College, 2015), expanded her groundbreaking research into women religious as part of the nineteenth-century Irish diaspora. Most recently, she is expanding this research using archives in India, Newfoundland and the American Midwest, for a series of new funded research projects. Deirdre publishes and supervises research in the history of education; gender and education; church-state relations; education ideas; and digital humanities, and she leads several funded research projects on the history of women religious (nuns) and education. She is module co-ordinator for all of the history of education modules in the School of Education. Deirdre Raftery was Fulbright Scholar in the Humanities (2015-2016), at Boston College. She was a Visiting Fellow of the University of Oxford in 2010, and is a Life Member of the University of Cambridge. She has won several Irish Research Council awards, and currently has two fully-funded Post-Doctoral Fellows and a team pf PhD students working with her at UCD. In addition to writing, research and lecturing, she routinely advises and consults on the education records of convents and schools, and has undertaken research in many parts of Europe, North America, Australia, and South East Asia. Deirdre Raftery was joint editor of the Taylor and Francis international SScI-indexed History of Education, for five years, and she serves on the Editorial Boards of History of Education, History of Education and Children's Literature, International Journal of the Historiography of Education, and Espacio, Tiempo y Educacion. Deirdre Raftery has given many invited addresses and keynote lectures around the world, at universities including the University of Zurich (2013) University of Melbourne (2014), Humboldt University (2014), the University of London (2014), Santa Clara University, San Francisco (2016), Goethe University, Frankfurt (2016), the University of Notre Dame (2017), and Dublin City University (2018). She was co-convenor of the Pedagogies of Peace symposium at Kylemore Abbey, March 2018, collaborating with the University of Notre Dame, University of Oxford, and University of London.
