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About Mary J. Hickman
- Mary J.
- Hickman is Professorial Research Fellow at St.
- Mary's University in Twickenham, London.
- She was formerly a Professor of Irish Studies and Sociology at London Metropolitan University 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, Columbia University and Victoria University, Melbourne.
- Her current research interests centre on migrations and diasporas.
- 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' was one viewed as an "other" or a different race in the construction of the British nationalist myth.
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