Professor Linda Hogan - at the top of Irish academia
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Callan woman Professor Linda Hogan has blazed a trail in academia and is a candidate to become the first ever female Provost of Trinity College, Dublin.
Professor Hogan is one of three final candidates, from whom the new Provost will be chosen, in April.
The daughter of the late Bea and Patsy Hogan of the Steppes Bar, Linda attended St Brigid’s College, Callan, and is currently a Professor of Ecumenics at the School of Religion in Trinity College.
Professor Hogan is an ethicist with extensive experience in research and teaching in pluralist and multi-religious contexts. Her research interests lie in the fields of inter-cultural and inter-religious ethics, social and political ethics, human rights and gender.