Dr Erin Geraghty

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate based in the Religious Studies department here at the OU. I am working on a Leverhulme-funded project investigating attitudes towards Catholicism in the UK since 1945. This project is an interdisciplinary study, aiming to demonstrate how history and psychology can complement each other.

I am also working on my first monograph provisionally entitled, Imperial Feminists in Ireland: Collaboration, Resistance, and the Limits of Solidarity, 1900-1921, to be published with Bloomsbury in 2026. The book will examine the participation of English feminist-socialists in the Irish socio-political movements (suffrage, labour, and pacifism) of the first two decades of the twentieth century.

I completed my PhD at the University of Warwick in 2022 (funded by the Wolfson Postgraduate Scholarship in the Humanities), where I also taught undergraduate modules relating to social, imperial, and military history. Prior to joining the OU, I was an Associate Lecturer at the University of the West of England (2022-2023), where I taught modules relating to British history, history of gender and sexuality, criminial history, and public history. Following that, I was a Teaching Associate in Modern Women's History at the University of Nottingham (2023-2024), where I convened the second-year module, ‘Villains or Victims? White Women and the British Empire, c. 1840-1980’, taught on a variety of first-year history modules, and supervised both undergraduate and MA dissertations in history.