Dr Sandra Hynes

Dr Sandra Hynes
Dr Sandra Hynes
Dr Sandra Hynes

BA (Mod), PhD

Scholarly Communications Officer

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Email Address
sandra.hynes@abdn.ac.uk
Telephone Number
+44 (0)1224 272343
Office Address
AUP, Room 106 The Sir Duncan Rice Library
Old Aberdeen Campus
Bedford Road
AB24 3AA

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School/Department
Digital & Information Services

Biography

I am the Administrator for Aberdeen University Press and am part of the Scholarly Communications Team based in the Sir Duncan Rice Library.

Originally from Dublin, I graduated with a BA (Mod) in History from Trinity College Dublin. My PhD (2003) on Quaker Theology and Discipline in seventeenth-century Ireland and England was supervised by Professor Aiden Clarke at Trinity College Dublin. I then moved to NUI Maynooth as a Government of Ireland (IRCHSS) Postdoctoral Fellow for two years (2004-6) to work on dissenter biographies. 

 

Qualifications

  • BA (Mod) History 
    1993 - Trinity College Dublin 
  • PhD History 
    2003 - Trinity College Dublin 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

Sir Duncan Rice Library Green Library Task & Finish Group

External Memberships

Outer Board Assessor for the Government of Ireland Postdoctoral awards.

Member of the British Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society and have research interests in Environmental History and also late eighteenth-century and early Victorian Scottish history and the history of religion (Quakerism, Catholicism and toleration).

Associate Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Latest Publications

  • Mapping Friendship and Dissent: The Letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710*

    Hynes, S.
    Varieties of Seventeenth-and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context. Hessayon, A., Finnegan, D. (eds.). Routledge, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Changing Their Path: Quaker Adaptation to the Challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680

    Hynes, S.
    Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled. Dennehy, C. (ed.). Routledge, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Dissenters in a transnational context: The Quakers in Ireland (1660-1690)

    Hynes, S.
    Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st century)
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Walk according to the Gospel order: Theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700

    Hynes, S.
    Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
  • R.L. Greaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707

    Hynes, S.
    The Seventeenth Century (Taylor & Francis Ltd.), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 76-77
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

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Research

Research Overview

Originally from Dublin, I graduated with a BA (Mod) in History from Trinity College Dublin. My PhD (2003) on Quaker Theology and Discipline in seventeenth-century Ireland and England was supervised by Professor Aiden Clarke at Trinity College Dublin. I then moved to NUI Maynooth as a Government of Ireland (IRCHSS) Postdoctoral Fellow for two years (2004-6) to work on dissenter biographies. 

Research Specialisms

  • History of Religions
  • Irish History
  • Scottish History
  • Environmental History

Our research specialisms are based on the Higher Education Classification of Subjects (HECoS) which is HESA open data, published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence.

Current Research

I am currently researching the early nineteenth century in Scotland and also environmental humanities.

Past Research

Selected Publications:

Journals (co-editor)

Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (with Michael Brown), 7.1 (2013): Contested Witnesses in Irish and Scottish literature, 205pp.

Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (with Michael Brown), 6.2 (2013): Social Order and Social Ordering in Stuart Ireland and Scotland, 138pp.

Journal of Irish and Scottish Studies (with Michael Brown) 6.1 (2012): National Cosmopolitanisms, 213pp

Articles

Mapping friendship and dissent: the letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710 in Arial Hessayon and David Finnegan (eds) Varieties of seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century radicalism in context (Ashgate, 2011)

Changing their path: Quaker adaptation to the challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680 in Coleman Dennehy (ed.) Restoration Ireland (Ashgate, 2008)

Dissenters in a trans-national context: The Quakers in Ireland 1660-1690 in Claudia Schnurmann (ed.) Religious refugees in Europe, Ireland and America from the 6th to the 21st centuries, Atlantic Cultures Series (LIT-Verlag, 2007)

Becoming convinced: the use of Quaker testimonies in late seventeenth-century Ireland in Michael Brown, Charles Ivar McGrath and Tom P. Power (eds), Converts and conversion in Ireland, 1650-1850 (Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005), 107-12

Publications

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  • Mapping Friendship and Dissent: The Letters from Joseph Boyse to Ralph Thoresby, 1680-1710*

    Hynes, S.
    Varieties of Seventeenth-and Early Eighteenth-Century English Radicalism in Context. Hessayon, A., Finnegan, D. (eds.). Routledge, 16 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Changing Their Path: Quaker Adaptation to the Challenge of Restoration, 1660-1680

    Hynes, S.
    Restoration Ireland: Always Settling and Never Settled. Dennehy, C. (ed.). Routledge, 14 pages
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters (Peer-Reviewed)
  • Dissenters in a transnational context: The Quakers in Ireland (1660-1690)

    Hynes, S.
    Religious Refugees in Europe, Asia and North America (6th - 21st century)
    Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings: Chapters
  • Walk according to the Gospel order: Theology and discipline in the Quaker meeting system, 1650-1700

    Hynes, S.
    Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of History
    Books and Reports: Commissioned Reports
  • R.L. Greaves, Dublin's Merchant-Quaker: Anthony Sharp and the Community of Friends, 1643-1707

    Hynes, S.
    The Seventeenth Century (Taylor & Francis Ltd.), vol. 14, no. 1, pp. 76-77
    Contributions to Journals: Reviews of Books, Films and Articles

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