Dr. Senia Paseta

Biography

Senia Paseta is a political historian specializing in modern Ireland and Britain. She has a particular interest in the intersection of history and feminism, education, and political activism. Paseta has published extensively on various aspects of women's history, including women's suffrage and women's education. Her recent book, 'Irish Nationalist Women, 1900-1918' (Cambridge, 2013), examines the lives of politically active women who worked within nationalist and feminist contexts in early twentieth-century Ireland. Currently, she is finalizing another book that delves into various forms of Irish women's political activism, including unionism, socialism, and suffrage during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Additionally, she focuses on the connections between Irish and British radical politics and the centrality of the Irish Question within the women's suffrage movement in the United Kingdom. As co-director of the Oxford Martin Programme on Women's Equality Inequality, she leads projects that analyze women's involvement in education activism between 1878 and 1920, shedding light on their enduring impact.

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