Jane Ohlmeyer

Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, is Erasmus Smith’s Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin. She is the former director of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute and has been a pioneer in advocating for Trinity’s arts and humanities both nationally and internationally. Since 2015, she has been chair of the Irish Research Council, an agency that funds frontier research across all disciplines. She has recently led Trinity’s bid as part of a consortium of partners for the successful award of 1.5 million euro for the project “SHAPE-ID: Shaping Interdisciplinary Practices in Europe,” funded by European Commission’s Horizon 2020 program. She is the author or editor of numerous articles and 11 books, including volume 2 of The Cambridge History of Ireland, published in 2018, and launched by the president of Ireland Michael D. Higgins in Dublin and by the former vice president Joe Biden in the United States.