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Jane Ohlmeyer
Jane Helen Ohlmeyer, MRIA, is a historian and academic, specialising in early modern Irish and British history. She is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council, which funds frontier research across all disciplines.
Ohlmeyer was the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Trinity's first vice-president for Global Relations (2011–14), and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (2015–20).
Ohlmeyer has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for 25 research and research infrastructure projects with awards totalling c. €22 million from national, European and international funders.
In addition to historical research, Ohlmeyer regularly speaks on topics that relate more generally to the importance of the arts and humanities, the value of inter- and trans-disciplinarity, educational policy, and digital humanities. She has commented on the barriers facing women in the university sector and launched a free Democracy Curriculum in 2020. She is a committed advocate of the public humanities and policy engagement and is a notable public commentator on contemporary issues, including Brexit.
In 2021, Ohlmeyer delivered the Ford Lectures on 'Ireland, Empire and the Early Modern World' at the University of Oxford. She was the eleventh woman to deliver the prestigious lectures since they were founded in 1896. Ohlmeyer was the first person from a university in Ireland to since F.S.L Lyons in 1977. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first time the lectures were delivered online. The lectures are now available on the RTÉ website.
Ohlmeyer was born in Zambia to a Northern Irish mother and a South African father, moving to Belfast in 1969. She read history as an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews before going on to complete an MA at the University of Illinois and a PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 1991.
Ohlmeyer was appointed Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin in 2003. Prior to that appointment, she held posts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Yale University and, from 1995 to 2003, at the University of Aberdeen. Upon her promotion to Professor in 2000, Ohlmeyer was the first woman to hold a chair in History at the University of Aberdeen, and the first chair of Irish History in Scotland.
Ohlmeyer has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trinity College Dublin, at Yale, the University of Aberdeen, New York University and Ashoka University in New Delhi. At Trinity, she has supervised 11 PhD students and mentored eight postdoctoral fellows and nine Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Fellows. She has served as an external examiner for theses in the English and History Faculties at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, New South Wales, Galway, UCD and Maynooth.
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Jane Ohlmeyer
Jane Helen Ohlmeyer, MRIA, is a historian and academic, specialising in early modern Irish and British history. She is the Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin and Chair of the Irish Research Council, which funds frontier research across all disciplines.
Ohlmeyer was the founding Head of the School of Histories and Humanities at Trinity College Dublin, Trinity's first vice-president for Global Relations (2011–14), and Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute (2015–20).
Ohlmeyer has been the Principal Investigator (PI) or co-PI for 25 research and research infrastructure projects with awards totalling c. €22 million from national, European and international funders.
In addition to historical research, Ohlmeyer regularly speaks on topics that relate more generally to the importance of the arts and humanities, the value of inter- and trans-disciplinarity, educational policy, and digital humanities. She has commented on the barriers facing women in the university sector and launched a free Democracy Curriculum in 2020. She is a committed advocate of the public humanities and policy engagement and is a notable public commentator on contemporary issues, including Brexit.
In 2021, Ohlmeyer delivered the Ford Lectures on 'Ireland, Empire and the Early Modern World' at the University of Oxford. She was the eleventh woman to deliver the prestigious lectures since they were founded in 1896. Ohlmeyer was the first person from a university in Ireland to since F.S.L Lyons in 1977. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this was the first time the lectures were delivered online. The lectures are now available on the RTÉ website.
Ohlmeyer was born in Zambia to a Northern Irish mother and a South African father, moving to Belfast in 1969. She read history as an undergraduate at the University of St Andrews before going on to complete an MA at the University of Illinois and a PhD at Trinity College Dublin in 1991.
Ohlmeyer was appointed Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin in 2003. Prior to that appointment, she held posts at the University of California at Santa Barbara, Yale University and, from 1995 to 2003, at the University of Aberdeen. Upon her promotion to Professor in 2000, Ohlmeyer was the first woman to hold a chair in History at the University of Aberdeen, and the first chair of Irish History in Scotland.
Ohlmeyer has taught undergraduate and postgraduate students at Trinity College Dublin, at Yale, the University of Aberdeen, New York University and Ashoka University in New Delhi. At Trinity, she has supervised 11 PhD students and mentored eight postdoctoral fellows and nine Marie Skłodowska-Curie Cofund Fellows. She has served as an external examiner for theses in the English and History Faculties at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, Edinburgh, New South Wales, Galway, UCD and Maynooth.