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Membership of the IFRWH/FIRHF is primarily by affiliation of national committees of researchers in the field of women's history.  There is also an affiliated organisation membership.    The following is a list of the National Committees which currently make up the Federation.


Australian Network for Research in Women's History
Dr Penny Russell
History Dept
University of SydneyAustralia

Austrian Women's History Committee
Dr. Birgitta Bader-Zaar
Dept of History
University of Vienna
1010 Wien, Dr.-Karl-Lueger-Ring 1
AUSTRIA

Professor Gunda Barth-Scalmani
Dept of History
Leopold-Franzens-University Innsbruck
6020 Innsbruck, Innrain 52
AUSTRIA
gunda.barth-scalmani@uibk.ac.at

Bangladesh Women's History Committee
President: Professor Sufia Ahmed
Dept of Islamic History and Culture
University of Dhaka
House 9
Road 12
BANGLADESH
sia
law@dhaka-bd.net
Secretary: Dr Sonia N. Amin
Dept of History
University of Dhaka
Dhaka 100
BANGLADESH
Treasurer: Professor Zaheda Ahmed
Dept of History
University of Dhaka
Dhaka 1000
BANGLADESH
zahmed@bdcom.com
IFRWH Contact: Professor Shirin Akhtar
Dept of History
Jahangirnagar University
Savar
Dhaka
BANGLADESH
sakhtar@juniv.edu 

Belgian National Committee
c/o Centre d’Archives pour l’Histoire des Femmes - Archiefcentrum voor
Vrouwengeschiedenis
Presidents Prof.dr. Leen Van Molle (KULeuven) and Prof.dr. Eliane Gubin (ULB)
10, rue du Méridien
1210 Brussels
BELGIUM
Contact person : Els Flour
e.flour@amazone.be

Brazilian Women's History Committee
Leila Mezan Algranti
Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Nucleo de Estudos de Genero Pagu- UNICAMP
Caixa Postal 6110
Campinas Sao Paulo
CEP 13081-970
BRAZIL

Bulgarian Women's History Committee
Professor Krassimira Daskalova
Department of Philosophy and Social Sciences
St.Kliment Ohridski University of Sofia
15 Tsar Osvoboditel Blvd
Sofia-1504

Canadian Commission on Women's History
Professor Lisa Chilton
Department of History
University of Prince Edward Island
550 University Avenue
Charlottetown
PE
Canada C1A 4P3
mailto:lchilton@upei.caCroatian
 

Croatian National Committee
Andrea Feldman
Remetska cesta 36
000 Zagreb
CROATIA
fekmeister@yahoo.com

Denmark National Committee
Professor Karin Lutzen

Department of History and Social Theory
Roskilde Universitetscenter 
Postboks 260 
4000 Roskilde 
DENMARK
lutz@ruc.dk
http://www.ruc.dk/cuid/uddannelser/historie/ansatte/vip/Lutzen/

Finland National Women's History Committee
Professor Pirjo Markkola
Department of History
University of Tampere
FIN 33014
Tampere
FINLAND
pirjo.markkola@uta.fi 

France National Committee
Association pour le développement de l'histoire des femmes et du genre
President: Prof Françoise Thebaud
1 bis, rue de la Gare
38120 St. Egreve
FRANCE 
Secretary: Rebecca Rogers
Treasurer: Evelyne Diebolt
rebecca.rogers@paris5.sorbonne.fr
Website:
http://www.mnemosyne.asso.fr/


Germany National Committee
Arbeitskreis Historische Frauen- und Geschlechterforschung
Prof. Dr. Angelika Schaser
Universität Hamburg
Historisches Seminar
Von-Melle-Park 6
20146 Hamburg 
GERMANY
AKHFG.Nord@uni-hamburg.de
http://www.uni-flensburg.de/akhfg/index.htm


Greece National Committee
Contacts:
Eleni  Fournaraki, Department of Sociology, University of Crete
elfou@social.soc.uoc.gz

Glafki Gotsi, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
glafkigo@ath.forthnet.gr


India Committee of IFRWH
Professor Aparna Basu
c/o All India Women's Conference
6 Bhagwandass Road
110001 New Delhi,
INDIA

Ireland National Committee
Women's History Association of Ireland
President: Dr Maryann Valiulis,
Centre for Gender and Women’s Studies,
School of Histories and Humanities,
Trinity College Dublin
Email:
maryann.valiulis@tcd.ie
Website: http:\\www.whai.ie

Israeli Committee on Women's History
Dr Margalit Shilo
32 Hapalmach St
Jerusalem 92542
ISRAEL

Italy National Committee
Società italiana delle storiche
President: Dr. Rosanna De Longis
Via della Lungara, 19 0016
Roma
ITALY
Noriyo Hawakawa
39-1441 Sakuradai Midori-Ku
Yokohama-shi 227
JAPAN

Lithuania National Committee
Dalia Marcinkeviciene
Lithuanian Institute of History
Kraziu 5
Vilnius 2001
LITHUANIA

The Netherlands National Committee
Dutch Committee on Women's History
Berteke Waaldijk
Vakgroup Vrouwenstudies
Faculteit Letteren
Kromme Nieuwegracht 29, 35,12
HD Utrecht,
THE NETHERLANDS
berteke.waaldijk@let.ruu.nl 

New Zealand
New Zealand National Committee of Women's Historians
Charlotte Macdonald
History
Victoria University of Wellington
Wellington
NEW ZEALAND
charlotte.macdonald@vuw.ac.nz

Nigeria
Prof. Bolanle Awe
Institute of African Studies,
University of Ibadan,
Ibadan,
NIGERIA
Phone work: 23422400550 to 400614 ext 1245

Norway Committee of IFRWH
Hilde Sandvik
Dept of History
University of Oslo
PB 1008 Blindern
0315 Oslo
NORWAY

Pakistan National Committee
Contact Person:
Tahera Aftab
C- 31 Noman Heaven
Block 15, Gulistane Jauhar
Karachi, 75290

Polish National Committee
Contact person:
Professor Grazyna SzelagowskaInstitute of History
Warsaw University
Krakowskie Przedmiescie 26/28
00-927 Warsaw
POLAND

g.szelagowska@uw.edu.pl

Portugal National Committee
Associação Portuguesa de Investigação Histórica sobre as Mulheres (APIHM)
Rua Júlio Dinis 585- 1Dto. Tràs.
4050-325 Porto
PORTUGAL
President: Helena Alvim
Vice President: Anne Cova
www.apihm.com

Russian National CommitteePresident: Professor Natalia PushkarevaInstitute of EthnologyRussian Academy of Sciencesntlnvkv@mail.ru

Slovakia National Committee
Contact Person: 
Tunde Lengyelova
Department of Early Modern History
Institute of History of Slovak Academy of Sciences
Historický ústav SAV
Klemensova 19813 64 Bratislava
SLOVAKIA
lengyelova@stonline.sk
 

Spanish National Committee
Asociación Española de Investigación de Historia de las Mujeres
President:
Pilar Pérez Fuentes
Secretary:
Nerea Aresti

Sweden
Swedish National Committee (SKOGH; the Swedish Association for Women’s and Gender History Researchers)
President: Dr Inger Jonsson
Department of Economic History
Uppsala University
Box 513
S-751 20 Uppsala
SWEDEN
Inger.Jonsson@ekhist.uu.se
Secretary: PhD student Hanna Enefalk
Department of History
Uppsala University
Box 628
S-751 26 Uppsala
SWEDEN
Hanna.Enefalk@hist.uu.se
Treasurer: Dr Rosemarie Fiebranz
Department of History
Uppsala University
Box 628
S-751 26 Uppsala
SWEDEN
Rosemarie.Fiebranz@hist.uu.se

Swiss Committee of IFRWH
Catherine Bosshart-Pfluger
Historisches Seminar der Universitat Basel
University of Fribourg
Fribourg
SWITZERLAND
catherine.bosshart@unifr.ch 
Correspondent
Switzerland (French speaking)
Natalia Tikhonov
Histoire Economique, Universite de Geneve, Bd du Pont-d'Arve 40, CH-1211 Geneve 4
SWITZERLAND
Natalia.tikhonov@histec.unige.ch

 
Ukraine National Committee
Contact person:
Dr Oksana Kis
Senior research fellow
Institute of Ethnology
National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine
Address: Valova 5/8 Lviv 79008 Ukraine
oksanakis55@gmail.com
 


UK Women's History Network
Dr Katherine Holden
Research Fellow in History
Faculty of Humanities, Languages and Social Science
University of the West of England
St. Matthias Campus
Oldbury Court Road
Fishponds
Bristol BS16 2JP
UK
katherine.holden@uwe.ac.uk
http://www.womenshistorynetwork.org


United States of America
Coordinating Council for Women in History (CCWH)
Jennifer R. Scanlon
Women's Studies Program
Bowdoin College
7100 College Station
Brunswick
ME 04011-8471
USA
Contact Person: Kathleen Kennedy