Mary J. Hickman is Professorial Research Fellow at

St Mary's University, Twickenham St Mary's University, Twickenham is a public university in Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. Its stated commitment is to the mission of the Catholic Church in higher education. History Originally foun ...

. She was formerly a Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology at

London Metropolitan University London Metropolitan University, commonly known as London Met, is a public university, public research university in London, England. The University of North London and London Guildhall University merged in 2002 to create the university. The Un ...

and director of its Institute for the Study of European Transformations. She was a member of the Irish Governments Task Force on Policy Regarding Emigrants (2001-2002). She has been Visiting Professor at:

New York University New York University (NYU) is a private university, private research university in New York City, New York, United States. Chartered in 1831 by the New York State Legislature, NYU was founded in 1832 by Albert Gallatin as a Nondenominational ...

Columbia University Columbia University in the City of New York, commonly referred to as Columbia University, is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Churc ...

and Victoria University, Melbourne. Her current research interests centre on migrations and

diaspora A diaspora ( ) is a population that is scattered across regions which are separate from its geographic place of birth, place of origin. The word is used in reference to people who identify with a specific geographic location, but currently resi ...

s. She has been a key figure in the documentation of The Irish Diaspora. An important analysis of nineteenth-century attitudes by Mary J. Hickman and Bronwen Walter showed that the '

Irish Catholic Irish Catholics () are an ethnoreligious group native to Ireland, defined by their adherence to Catholic Christianity and their shared Irish ethnic, linguistic, and cultural heritage.The term distinguishes Catholics of Irish descent, particul ...

' was once viewed as an "other" or a different race in the construction of the British nationalist myth.''Deconstructing Whiteness: Irish Women in Britain'' Mary J. Hickman, Bronwen Walter ''Feminist Review'', No. 50, The Irish Issue: The British Question (Summer, 1995), pp. 5-19

Books

* ''Thinking Identities: Ethnicity, Racism and Culture'' - This book brings together research about a diverse range of groups who are rarely analyzed together: Welsh, Irish, Jewish, Arab, White, African and Indian. *''

Feminist Feminism is a range of socio-political movements and ideology, ideologies that aim to define and establish the political, economic, personal, and social gender equality, equality of the sexes. Feminism holds the position that modern soci ...

Review; Issue 50 the Irish Issue'' By Mary J. Hickman,

Ailbhe Smyth Ailbhe Smyth (born 1946) is an Irish academic, feminist and LGBTQ activist. She was the founding director of the Women's Education, Resource and Research Centre (WERRC), University College Dublin (UCD). Education and academic career Smyth be ...

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