Dr Erin Geraghty

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate based in the Religious Studies department here at the OU. I am working on the Leverhulme-funded project, Anti-Catholicism in the UK Since 1945. This project is an interdisciplinary study of prejudice; combining expertise in psychology and history to understand historic and contemporary attitudes towards Catholicism. Through this work, we aim to demonstrate how history and psychology can complement each other in developing methodologies that help us to better understand forms of prejudice. 

Prior to this, I worked largely on the histories of British and Irish suffrage and labour movements in the early twentieth century. My PhD thesis (University of Warwick, 2022) examined the participation of British feminist-socialists in the Irish socio-political (suffrage, labour, pacifist) movements of the early twentieth century.

I have taught both undergraduate and postgraduate modules relating to social, military, imperial, and feminist history and theory at a variety of universities.