Sonja Tiernan

Sonja Tiernan is the national coordinator of the Irish Humanities Alliance based in the Royal Irish Academy and President of the Women’s History Association of Ireland. Previously the Eamon Cleary Professor of Irish Studies and Co-Director of the Centre for Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Originally from Dublin, Sonja studied at University College Dublin and has held visiting fellowships at the National Library of Ireland; Trinity College Dublin; Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies, University of Notre Dame; School of Irish Studies, Concordia University Canada and she was awarded a Moore Institute visiting fellowship at the University of Galway. Sonja has received funding from prestigious sources in support of her research including from the Irish Research Council, Royal Irish Academy, National Endowment of the Humanities USA and the National University of Ireland.