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Munira Hamud Mutran (Chair)
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Munira H. Mutran |
For 25 years Professor Munira
Hamud Mutran has been a pioneer in developing Irish studies
in an international arena and in particular the informing
spirit in its development, throughout South America. She has
inaugurated Irish Studies as an academic discipline in the
Brazilian university system and has been a highly
influential cultural ambassador for Ireland in South
America. On 12 June 2008 she received a Degree of Doctor of
Literature Honoris Causa at the National University of
Ireland, Maynooth. Professor Mutran has published 12 books
as well as 50 articles and book chapters, mostly in the
field of Irish studies (fiction, drama and cultural history)
and Irish-South American studies. In 2002 she hosted the
annual International Association for the Study of Irish
Literatures (IASIL) conference in Brazil and has been an
active member of that association over the past 25 years.
She is President of the Brazilian Association of Irish
Studies (ABEI) and co-editor of the ABEI Journal. In 2006 working with her
close colleague Professor Laura Izarra, she organized the
first symposium of Irish Studies in South America, which
continues on an annual basis. Currently she is the main
researcher in the project, co-ordinated by Professor Laura
Izarra, Da Irlanda para o Brasil: Textos Criticos, a multi-volume anthology of Irish cultural criticism to be
published in Portuguese.
Aline Helg
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Aline Helg |
Aline Helg
obtained her Ph.D. degree from the University of Geneva
(1983), where she is Professor of History since 2003. She
also taught at Universidad de los Andes (Bogotá) and the
University of Texas at Austin (1989-2003). She has been
awarded research grants in Switzerland by the National Fund
and the Foreign Affairs Ministry, and in the USA by the
National Humanities Center, the University of Texas, the
National Endowment for the Humanities, the American
Philosophical Society, and the Ford, Mellon and Rockefeller
foundations. Her fields of studies are the Americas and the
Atlantic world since the wars of independence, the African
Diaspora, ethnicity, racism, and compared civil rights. She
published Civiliser le peuple et former les élites.
L'éducation en Colombie, 1918-1957 (Paris, 1984), also
in Spanish as La educación en
Colombia,
1918-1957
(Bogotá, 1987 and 2001). Her second book, Our Rightful
Share. The Afro-Cuban Struggle for Equality, 1886-1912
(Chapel Hill, 1995), also in Spanish translation as Lo
que nos corresponde: La lucha de los negros y mulatos en
Cuba, 1886-1912
(La Habana, 2000), has received prizes from the American
Historical Association, the Association of Caribbean
Historians, and the Caribbean Studies Association. Dr Helg's
Liberty and
Equality in Caribbean Colombia, 1770-1835
(Chapel Hill, 2004, soon to be published in Spanish) has
also been the recipient of a prize from the American
Historical Association. She has published chapters in edited
volumes and articles in Comparative Studies in Society
and History, Colonial Latin American Historical
Review, Ethnohistory, Journal of Latin
American Studies, Revista de
Indias,
Slavery & Abolition, América Negra,
Cuadernos de Historia Contemporánea, and Revista
Iberoamericana. She is now working on a new book,
Après l'esclavage : unité et diversité des Amériques noires
de l'abolition à la mondialisation, to be published by
André Versaille in Brussels.
Ronaldo Munck
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Ronaldo Munck |
Ronaldo Munck joined Dublin City University
in 2004 as Theme Leader for internationalisation,
interculturalism and social development and as a Professor
of the University. He had previously been at the University
of Liverpool had been Professor of Political Sociology and
Director of the Globalisation and Social Exclusion Unit (GSEU)
since 1996. Previously, he had been the first post-apartheid
Chair in Sociology at the University of Durban – Westville,
one of the HDU (historically black universities) in South
Africa. Before that, he had been many years at the
University of Ulster. His research interests include Latin
American politics: including books on democracy, labour
movements and a general overview, Irish society: including
books on economic development, Belfast in the 1930’s and a
general overview, International Development: including the
best-selling Critical Development Theories and a number of
influential articles, and Political Sociology: including
major studies of nationalism, Marxism, social movements and
urban development.
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Previous Selection Committee
Members
2008-2009: Mary N. Harris (chair), Jorge L. Chinea,
Peter Hulme
2007-2008: Maureen Murphy (chair), Piaras Mac Éinrí,
Guillermo O'Donnell
2006-2007:
Laura P.Z. Izarra (chair),
Kerby A. Miller, Angus Mitchell
2005-2006:
Thomas Ihde (chair), Rosa González-Casademont, Peadar Kirby
2004-2005:
Kevin Whelan (chair), Hilda Sabato,
Oliver Marshall
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