Staff

Niamh Reilly

Senior Lecturer

Co-Director, Global Women’s Studies Programme
Course Director, BA CONNECT with Global Women’s Studies

PhD (Politics) Rutgers University
MA (Economics) University of Wisconsin
BA (Honors) UCD

Office: Aras Moyola 326
Telephone: 353 (0)91 495403
Email: niamh.reillynuigalway.ie

Member of the Global Women's Studies Research Cluster
Co-Convener of Gender ARC, a joint NUI Galway-UL research network

Profile

Niamh Reilly is a Senior Lecturer and co-director of the Global Women's Studies Progamme at the School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway. She has published widely on transnational women's movements, feminist theory and human rights.  Her most recent book is Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalising Age (Polity Press, 2009), which was selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2010" by the American Library Association/CHOICE. Niamh has many years' experience working with United Nations processes and Civil Society Organisations internationally and has served as an independent expert on the Irish government's Department of Foreign Affairs' Standing Committee on Human Rights (1997-1999) and its Consultative Group to draft Ireland's National Action Plan on UN Security Council 1325 (2010-2011). From 2004 to 2005 she served as a gender expert on Amnesty International's Stop Violence against Women (SVAW) Campaign. Before joining NUI Galway in 2007, Niamh was a RCUK Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Transitional Justice Institute, University of Ulster and a postdoctoral fellow in Women's Studies and Politics at the University of Limerick Ireland.

Teaching

Undergraduate
Introduction to Women, Culture and Society
The Story of Blue Jeans: Women and Girls in the Global Economy

Postgraduate
Women’s Human Rights: Concepts, Issues and Practice
Feminist Theorising
Women, Conflict and Human Security
Gender, Development and Human Rights

Research Interests

Niamh Reilly’s research interests focus on the gender dimensions of human rights as a legal, ethical and political paradigm. This includes examination of the role of human rights in transnational and local feminisms and of competing women's human rights concerns in multicultural contexts. Her current research is concerned with the interplay of religion and women's human rights.

Selected Publications

BOOKS

Reilly, Niamh, and Stacey Scriver, eds., Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere (Routledge, 2013). For more details, see: http://www.religiongenderpublicsphere.info/.

Reilly, Niamh, Women's Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age (London: Polity Press, 2009. (Selected as an "Outstanding Academic Title for 2010" by the American Library Association/CHOICE. To see reviews, go to http://www.womenshumanrights.info/)

Reilly, Niamh, and Linda Posluszny, Women Testify: A Planning Guide for Popular Tribunals and Hearings (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women's Global Leadership, 2005).

Reilly, Niamh, ed., Women's Rights as Human Rights: Local and Global Perspectives: Strategies and Analyses from the ICCL Working Conference on Women's Rights as Human Rights (Dublin: Irish Council for Civil Liberties, 1997).

Reilly, Niamh, ed., Without Reservation: The Beijing Tribunal on Accountability for Women’s Human Rights (New Brunswick: Rutgers University, Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1996).

Reilly, Niamh, and Charlotte Bunch, Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Women's Human Rights (New York: United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM), 1994).

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES

Reilly, Niamh, 'Doing Transnational Feminism, Transforming Human Rights' in Irish Journal of Sociology 19: 2 (2011): 60-76.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Rethinking the Interplay of Feminism and Secularism in a Neo-secular Age', Feminist Review 97 (2011): 5-31.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Review Essay' (Reviews of What Happened to the Women?: Gender and Reparations for Human Rights Violations, ed. Ruth Rubio-Marin, ed. and To Save Her Life: Disappearance, Deliverance, and the United States in Guatemala by Dan Saxon) in Perspectives on Politics 8:1 (2010): 328-330.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Seeking Gender Justice in Post-Conflict Transitions: Towards a Transformative Women’s Human Rights Approach’, International Journal of Law in Context 3 (2) (2007): 155–172.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Cosmopolitan Feminism and Human Rights', Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy 22 (4) (2007): 180–198.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Linking Local and Global Feminist Advocacy: Framing Women's Rights as Human Rights in the Republic of Ireland’, Women's Studies International Forum 30 (2007): 114–133.

Reilly, Niamh, 'The UN "Beijing Platform for Action" 1995-2005: Local Global Political Spaces, NGO Advocacy, and Governmental Responses in the Republic of Ireland', Irish Political Studies 20 (2) (2005): 187–200. To view, click here.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Women's Rights as Cultural Rights: The Case of the Irish Travellers', Human Rights Dialogue Series 2, no. 12 (Spring 2005). Special edition on cultural rights. New York: Carnegie Council on Ethics and International Affairs. Available online here. Click here to download a PDF version.

Reilly, Niamh, 'Sixteen Days of Activism Against Gender Violence' in Violence Against Women 1.3 (1995): 272-281 (with S. E. Roche and K. Biron)

BOOK CHAPTERS/WORKING PAPERS

’Secularity, Women, and Feminism’, in John Shook and Phil Zuckerman, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Secularism (Oxford University Press, forthcoming 2014).

’Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere: Mapping the Terrain’ in Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere, ed. Niamh Reilly and Stacey Scriver (Routledge, forthcoming 2013).

’Religion, Law, and Human Rights’ in Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere, ed. Niamh Reilly and Stacey Scriver (Routledge, forthcoming 2013).

’Gender Justice and the "Postsecular" Public Sphere: Toward Non-Oppressive Reconfigurations’ in Religion, Gender and the Public Sphere, ed. Niamh Reilly and Stacey Scriver (Routledge, forthcoming 2013) (Stacey Scriver, co-author).

Reilly, Niamh,’Cosmopolitanism and Feminism’, in The Ashgate Research Companion to Cosmopolitanism, edited by Magdalena Nowicka and Maria Rovisco (Ashgate, 2011): 367-86.

Reilly, Niamh, 'International Norms, Global Issues and Local Action: Critical Approaches to Women’s Human Rights in Ireland’, in Where Are We Now? New Feminist Perspectives on Women in Ireland, edited by Ursula Barry (Dublin: New Island Publishers, 2008)

Reilly, Niamh, 'International Networking for Women’s Human Rights’, in Global Citizen Action, edited by Michael Edwards and John Gaventa (Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2001). (Co-author with Charlotte Bunch and Peggy Antrobus) View online at Google Books by clicking here.

Reilly, Niamh,’Strategic Planning: Global Campaign for Women's Human Rights’, in Measuring the Immeasurable: Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation of Networks, ed. Marilee Karl (New Dehli: Oxfam Novib, 1999), 92-98. (Co-author with Charlotte Bunch)

Reilly, Niamh,’Global Feminism, Diversity and Political Transformation’ in Feminism, Politics, Community, edited by Ailbhe Smyth (Dublin: WERRC, 1996).

Reilly, Niamh, ’The Global Campaign: Violence against Women Violates Human Rights’, in From Basic Needs to Basic Rights, edited by Margaret A. Schuler (Washington: Women, Law and Development International, 1995). (Co-author with Charlotte Bunch).

OTHER

Reilly, Niamh, Fundamentalisms and Women’s Human Rights, Working Paper No. 1, Gender, Empowerment and Globalisation Research Cluster, School of Political Science and Sociology, National University of Ireland, Galway (2009)

Reilly, Niamh, Review of "Striapacha Tri Chead Bliain Duailcis" ("Prostitutes: Three Hundred Years of Vice"), in Estudios Irlandeses: Electronic Journal of the Spanish Association for Irish Studies (AEDEI) 4 (2009). Available online here.

Contributor to "Filling the Gaps: A Virtual Discussion of Gender, Peace, and Security Research," United Nations INSTRAW (UN International Research and Training Institute for the Advancement of Women), 13-31 October, 2008. Available online here.

Contributor to Marysia Zalewski, et al., 'Roundtable Discussion: Reflections on the Past, Prospects for the Future', Millennium: Journal of International Studies 37 (1) (2008): 153–179.

Reilly, Niamh, "'Stop Violence against Women' Campaign 2005-2010: Mapping External Challenges and Opportunities", internal discussion paper prepared for Amnesty International (2005)

Reilly, Niamh, ’Civil and Political Rights’ (2003), ’Women and Armed Conflict’ (2003) and ’Violence Against Women’ (2003). Overview articles published on Women’s Human Rights Net.

Reilly, Niamh,  co-editor, Les Voix des Femmes et « Les Droits de L´Homme » Edited by Charlotte Bunch, Claudia Hinojosa and Niamh Reilly, Center for Women's Global Leadership and the Canadian International Development Agency (preface by Marie Aimée Hélie Lucas), 2000. Click here to download a PDF version.

Reilly, Niamh, co-editor, Los Derechos de las Mujeres son Derechos Humanos: Crónica de Una Movilización Mundial. Editadas por Charlotte Bunch, Claudia Hinojosa, y Niamh Reilly. EDAMEX and the Center for Women's Global Leadership, in collaboration with ISIS Internacional/Santiago de Chile and UNIFEM (preface by Alda Facio), 2000. Click here to download a PDF version.

Reilly, Niamh, ed., Affordable Accommodation: A Trade Union Issue and a Human Right (Dublin: SIPTU/CPSU, 1998) (Editor and Contributor)

Reilly, Niamh, State Accountability for Women's Human Rights in Ireland (University College Dublin: Women's Education Research and Resource Centre, 1997)

Reilly, Niamh, ’Global Feminism, Diversity and Political Transformation’ in Ailbhe Smyth (ed), Feminism, Politics, Community (University College Dublin: Women's Education Research and Resource Centre, 1996).

Reilly, Niamh, Testimonies of the Global Tribunal on Violations of Women's Human Rights (New Brunswick, NJ: Center for Women’s Global Leadership, 1994) (Editor). Click here to download a PDF version.

BOOK COVERS

Supervision of Research

PhDs

Graduated:

Emily Bent, Rethinking the Girl Effect: A Critical Analysis of Girls' Political Subjectivity and Agency at the United Nations 54th Session of the Commission on the Status of Women (2012)

Morgan Healey, The 'Naturalized' Politician: How Irish Women Politicians Construct Their Political Subjectivities (co-supervisor with Dr. Breda Gray) (UL, 2009)

Ongoing:

Iris Elliot, International Human Rights and the Women’s Movement in Ireland: The Women's Human Rights Alliance

Gorana Mlinarevic, A critical analysis of established systems for the prosecution of sexual violence as a war crime: The example of Bosnia Herzegovina

MAs

Siobhan McKeown, How do feminist organisations currently working with or on behalf of women in Afghanistan view the presence of international military forces in Afghanistan and its impact on the attainment or not of women's rights and security? (2011)

Marika Corbett, Vernacularisation & Brideprice: An Exploration of One Organisation's Attempt to Translate Human Rights Norms into Local Practice (2011)

Louise Riordan, Electoral Gender Quota Debates in the Irish Print Media: an exploration of bias and gender stereotypes (2011)

Laura Burke, Resolution 1325 on women, peace and security: A case study of "Best Practice" National Action Plans and their Potential to impact Peace In the Sudan (2010)

Grainne Filan, How United Nations organisations deal with abortion in Ireland as a right to health issue (2010)

Jacqui Aupiais, Reducing Maternal Mortality in Sri Lanka: A Rights-based Approach? (2009)

Norin Clancy, The ’Muslim Headscarf’ and Human Rights in Irish Schools: A Galway Case Study (2009)

Maureen O’Hara, An Investigation into the Challenges Experienced by Female Gardai in Balancing Domestic Care and Work Responsibilities: Implications for Career Advancement (2009)

Orla Fagan, Rhetoric, Reality and Representation: Where are the Women in Irish Political Parties? (2009)

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