Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, FBA, FTCD, FRHistS, is Erasmus Smith's Professor of Modern History (1762) at Trinity College Dublin. She has held fellowships at elite universities around the world including Oxford, Cambridge, NYU, Ashoka and JNU. She was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute. In 2023 she received an Advanced ERC for VOICES, a project on the lived experiences of women in early modern Ireland. Her latest book 'Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism and the Early Modern World' (Oxford, 2023) is based on the 2021 Ford Lectures in Oxford. In 2023 she was awarded the RIA Gold Medal in the Humanities.