Mairead Hynes

Events Coordinator

Mairead Hynes is the CSSD Events Coordinator for 2024-2025, and is a PhD candidate in the History Department, studying Japanese feminist and women’s activism in the 1970s and 1980s. In particular, she traces feminist movement practices and strategies that engage the themes of war responsibility, colonial responsibility, and positionality / structural perpetratorhood. Before entering the Ph.D. program at Columbia University, Mairead graduated from the University of Connecticut in 2013 with a BA in History, and in 2018 earned her MA at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan.