Niamh Reilly is Established Professor ofPolitical Science and Sociology at the University of Galway. Her research interests focus on the relationship between theory and practice and the role of ideas in emancipatory projects. She is currently researching the history of ideas in Ireland in the decades before 1916, including the political and social thought of essayist, social justice champion, and progressive nationalist TomKettle (1880-1916) and his interlocutors.She has published widely on issues of human rights and gender;feministpolitical and socialtheory;religion in thePublic - No restriction sphere; transnational advocacy and the United Nations; and women, peace and security.Her book, Womens Human Rights: Seeking Gender Justice in a Globalizing Age (Polity Press, 2009) was selected as an Outstanding Academic Title for 2010 by the American Library AssociationCHOICE. She is co-author of Demanding Accountability: The Global Campaign and Vienna Tribunal for Womens Human Rights (UNIFEM 1994). Her edited collections include Religion, Gender and the Public - No restriction Sphere (Routledge 2014) (Lead editor) and The Human Rights of Women (Springer, Major Reference Works, 2019). Most recently, Niamh Reilly was Irish PI in a multi-country study on gender based violence in contexts of migration, funded by EU Gender Net PlusIRC (2019-2023).

Niamh Reillys research interests encompass: gender andhuman rights; feminist theory; political and socialtheory including historical perspectives on political and social thought in the Ireland;religion and gender in thePublic - No restriction sphere; women, peace and security; and the UN in transnational advocacy.

UndergraduateSocial Issues and Policy ResponsesHuman Rights Advocacy: Concepts, Law and PracticeClassical Social Thought Postgraduate Gender, Women and Human Rights