KEVIN KENNY Boston College

Department of History 140 Commonwealth Avenue

Chestnut Hill, MA 02467 (617) 552–0825

kevin.kenny@bc.edu Kevin Kenny is Professor of History at Boston College, where he teaches the history of American immigration. He is author of Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction, which examines the origins, meanings, and utility of a central concept in the study of migration; Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment, an inquiry into the encounter between European colonists and Native Americans in the eighteenth century; The American Irish, a standard history of the field; and Making Sense of the Molly Maguires, which considers how traditions of Irish rural protest were translated into an American industrial setting. He also served as contributing editor for Ireland and the British Empire, which launched The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. He has published numerous articles and chapters on Irish global migration and he is currently working on a book about the relationship between American immigration and slavery from the Revolution through Reconstruction. EDUCATION

Ph.D. (History), Columbia University, May 1994. Bancroft Dissertation Award. M. Phil. (History), Columbia University, May 1990. M.A. (History), Columbia University, May 1989. M.A./B.A. (Modern History) University of Edinburgh, June 1987. 1st class honors (summa cum laude), Annabella Kirkpatrick Prize. Undergraduate exchange student, University of Pennsylvania, 1985–86.

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS

Professor of History, Boston College, Sept. 2003–present. Chair, Department of History, Boston College, June 2014–May 2017.

Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Chair, Department of History, August 2009–August 2010, June 2002–May 2005. Associate Professor of History, Boston College, September 1999–August 2003. Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, August 1994–August 1999 (granted tenure, December 1998). Visiting Assistant Professor of History, Columbia University, Summer 1995. Adjunct Instructor of History, City College, City University of New York, September 1993–May 1994.

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PUBLICATIONS Books:

Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2013), 123 pages. Paperback and Kindle editions. A general introduction to the concept, its origins and meanings, and its strengths and limitations in the study of human migration. (Korean language paperback edition, 198 pages, LP Book, 2017; Turkish and Vietnamese translations forthcoming.) Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2009). Hardcover, 294 pages (paperback and Kindle editions, 2011). A study of Indian-European relations in Pennsylvania from William Penn to the American Revolution, set in the wider context of Atlantic and British imperial history, with particular attention to Ulster settlers and the French and Indian War. Main selection for the Book of the Month Club, alternate selection for the History Book Club, Military Book Club, and Quality Paperback Club. The Irish: Towards the USA (Torino: Umberto Allemandi, 2006). An illustrated history. Hardcover, 103 pages, with 90 illustrations. Italian language hardcover edition, Gli irlandesi che hanno fatto l’America, Giuliana Olivero, trans., 103 pages, with 90 illustrations (Torino: Umberto Allemandi, 2006). Ireland and the British Empire: The Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series (Oxford University Press, 2004). Editor and contributor. A collection of historical essays. Hardcover, 296 pages. Revised paperback edition, 2006. Kindle edition. New Directions in Irish-American History (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003). Editor and contributor. A collection of historical essays. Hardcover and paperback, 334 pages. The American Irish: A History (Longman, 2000). Hardcover and paperback, 328 pages. Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (Oxford University Press, 1998). Hardcover, paperback, and Kindle editions. 336 pages. Alternate selection for the History Book Club.

Articles and book chapters:

“Irish emigration, ca. 1845–1900,” in The Cambridge History of Ireland, ed., Thomas Bartlett (forthcoming Cambridge University Press, 2018), 666–87.

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“Irish Emigrations in a Comparative Perspective,” in The Cambridge Social History of Ireland, eds, Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary Daly (Cambridge University Press, 2017), 405–22. “Abraham Lincoln and the American Irish,” American Journal of Irish Studies 10 (2013): 37–62. “ ‘Freedom and Unity’: Abraham Lincoln in Irish Political Discourse,” in Richard Carwardine and Jay Sexton, eds, The Global Lincoln (Oxford University Press, 2011), 157–71. “Twenty Years of Irish-American Historiography,” Journal of American Ethnic History 28 (Summer 2009): 67–75. “Diaspora and Irish Migration History,” Irish Economic and Social History 33 (2006): 43–48. “Violence, Race, and anti-Irish Sentiment in the Nineteenth Century,” “American-Irish Nationalism,” and “Labor and Labor Organizations,” in J. J. Lee and Marion Casey, eds, Making the Irish American: The History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States (New York University Press, 2006), 289–301, 354–63, 355–78. “Ireland and the British Empire: An Introduction,” Chapter 1 of Kevin Kenny, ed., Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2004), 1–25. “The Irish in the Empire,” Chapter 4 of Kevin Kenny, ed., Ireland and the British Empire (Oxford University Press, 2004), 90–122. “Diaspora and Comparison: The Global Irish as a Case Study,” Journal of American History 90 (June 2003): 134–62. “Writing the History of the Irish Diaspora,” in Robert Savage, ed., Ireland in the New Century: Politics, Culture, Identity (Dublin: Irish Academic Press, 2003), 206–26. “Teaching Irish-American History,” Journal of American Ethnic History 21 (Summer 2002): 30–39. With responses by Jay Dolan, Timothy Meagher, and Marion Casey.

“Race, Labor, and Nativism: A Response to Dale T. Knobel” (Ernie O’Malley Lecture, New York University, November 2000), Radharc: Chronicles of Glucksman Ireland House, New York University 2 (November 2001): 27–33.

“Editor’s Introduction,” Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 36 (Spring/Summer 2001): 5–9 and 37 (Spring/Summer 2002): 5–10.

“Development of the Working Classes,” in William L. Barney, ed., A Companion to Nineteenth-Century America (Oxford: Blackwell, 2001), 164–77.

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“Ethnicity and Immigration,” in Eric Foner, ed., The New American History (Temple University Press, rev. ed., 1997), 353–73. Also published by the American Historical Association as a pamphlet in the series “The New American History” (co-author with James P. Shenton).

“Taking Care of Irish Culture: A Review of Gaelic Gotham: A History of the Irish in New York, Museum of the City of New York, March-October 1996,” American Quarterly 49 (December 1997): 806–824. “The Molly Maguires and the Catholic Church,” Labor History 37 (Summer 1995): 345–76.

“The Molly Maguires in Popular Culture,” Journal of American Ethnic History 14 (Summer 1995): 27–46. “Nativism, Labor, and Slavery: The Political Odyssey of Benjamin Bannan, 1850–1860,” Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography CXVIII (October 1994): 325–61.

Publications for a wider audience:

“The Irish Diaspora,” Aeon, https://aeon.co/essays/the-irish-experience-and-the-meaning-of-modern-diaspora (September 2017). “Will Mexico Pay for the Wall?” Wall Street Journal, https://wallethub.com/blog/will-mexico-pay-for-the-wall/32590/#kevin-kenny (February 17, 2016).

“Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Riots,” Digital Paxton: A Critical Guide to the

Paxton Pamphlet War, ed. William Fenton, http://digitalpaxton.org/works/digital-paxton/peaceable-kingdom-lost-the-paxton-riots (September 2016).

“The ‘Molly Maguires’, the Ancient Order of Hibernians, and the Bloody Summer of

1875,” Pennsylvania Legacies 14 (Fall 2014): 18–25. “Diaspora: A Wandering Word and its Shifting Meanings,” Boston College Magazine

(Spring 2014), http://bcm.bc.edu/issues/spring_2014/features/diaspora.html# “Ten Things to Understand About the Molly Maguires,” OUPblog, December 18, 2013,

http://blog.oup.com/2013/12/ten-things-to-understand-about-the-molly maguires/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=oupacademic&utm_campaign=oupblog

“Diaspora: A Useful Idea,” The Historical Society: A Blog Devoted to History for the Academy

and Beyond, July 22, 2013, http://histsociety.blogspot.com/2013/07/diaspora-useful-idea.html

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“Ten Things to Understand About Diaspora,” OUPblog, June 28, 2013, http://blog.oup.com/2013/06/10-facts-about-diaspora/

“Peaceable Kingdom Lost,” Historically Speaking X (September 2009): 29–31. “The Continuing Relevance of William Penn,” HNN: History News Network, August

3, 2009, http://hnn.us/articles/100824.html “Immigrants and Native Americans,” OUPblog, June 18, 2009,

http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/immigrants-native-americans/ “The ‘holy experiment’ was too good to last,” op-ed, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 11,

2009, http://www.philly.com/inquirer/opinion/47754782.html “Irish immigrants in the United States,” E-Journal USA (America.gov: Engaging the

World), 13 (February 2008): http://www.america.gov/st/diversity-english/2008/February/20080307131416ebyessedo0.6800043.html

“The Molly Maguires and The Valley of Fear,” Baker Street Journal 55 (summer 2005):

24–31. Selected book reviews and encyclopedia entries:

Reviews of Senia Pašeta, ed., Uncertain Futures: Essays About the Irish Past for Roy Foster

(English Historical Review, 2017); Malcolm Campbell, Ireland’s New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815–1922 (Journal of Social History, 2009); Kerby A. Miller, et al., eds, Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675–1815 (Irish Historical Studies, 2008); Michael Doorley, Irish-American Diaspora Nationalism in Irish Historical Studies (Irish Historical Studies, 2007); Andy Bielenberg, ed., The Irish Diaspora (Irish Economic and Social History, October 2001).

Entries and articles in The Encyclopedia of US Labor (Routledge), The Encyclopedia of

American Conspiracy Theories (ABC-CLIO, 2004), The Encyclopedia of Ireland (Gill and Macmillan, 2003), The Encyclopedia of the Irish in America (Notre Dame University Press, 2000), The Encyclopedia of Violence in the United States (Scribners, 1999), The Encyclopedia of the City of New York (Yale University Press, 1995), and The Reader’s Companion to American History (Houghton Mifflin, 1991).

WORK IN PROGRESS

“Lincoln and Immigration”: a chapter in A Companion to Abraham Lincoln, ed. Michael Green (forthcoming, Blackwell’s, ca. 2017–18). “A nation of immigrants and a slaveholding republic”: a book-length investigation of the relationship between Irish immigration and slavery in the United States – not as a

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social history of immigrants but as a political and ideological analysis of how nineteenth-century Americans conceived of the problem of the foreigner in a slaveholding republic.

ADVISORY BOARDS, EDITORIAL BOARDS, AND PEER REVIEWING

Member, Editorial Board, Journal of American Ethnic History, April 2017–present.

Member, Editorial Board, Estudios Irlandeses, the scholarly journal of AEDEI, the Spanish Association for Irish Studies, April 2106–present. Member, Advisory Board, Britain and the World: Historical Journal of The British Scholar Society, February 2007–present. Contributing editor, Labor: Studies in Working-Class History of the Americas, 2009–2012. Member, Editorial Board of Advisors, University of Wisconsin Press, series on Irish and Irish-American History, December 2001–present. Guest editor, Éire-Ireland: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 36 (spring/summer 2001), 205 pages and 37 (spring/summer 2002), 196 pages – a two-part special issue on the American Irish. Anonymous reviewer of book manuscripts for Harvard University Press (September 2017), Oxford University Press (February 2016, May 2014, April 2014, May 2009, May 2006, January 2006, November 1998, May 1998), University of Illinois Press (March 2013), Routledge (October 2012), University of North Carolina Press (January 2007), Norton (June 2002), Johns Hopkins University Press (March 2001), Princeton University Press (January 2000), and Columbia University Press (May 1999); and articles for Estudios Irlandeses, October 2016; Journal of American Ethnic History (April 2015), William and Mary Quarterly (December 2015), Irish Historical Studies (September 2013), Indiana Magazine of History (October 2012), Journal of American History (January 2012, November 2010, January 2010, January 2005, May 2000), Labor: Working-Class History of the Americas (July 2010), American Nineteenth Century History (June 2010), Southern Cultures (June 2010), the Journal of Gilded Age and Progressive History (August 2005), and American Historical Review (August 2000); as well as scholarly articles in a book about diasporas published by the University of Pisa and Cliohres.net (a consortium of fifty European university history departments supported by the European Commission). Pre-publication endorsements for numerous recent books, including in 2017, Stéphane Dufoix, Dispersion: A History of the Word Diaspora (Brill) and David Gleeson, ed., English Ethnicity and Culture in North America (University of North Carolina Press); and in 2015, Ian McBride and Richard Bourke, eds, The Princeton History of Modern Ireland (Princeton University Press), Mary Daly, Sixties Ireland: Reshaping the Economy, State, and Society, 1957–73 (Cambridge University Press), Diarmaid Ferriter, A Nation

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and Not a Rabble: The Irish Revolution, 1913–1923 (Profile Books), and David Brundage, Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798–1998 (Oxford University Press).

Consultant, Irish Immigrants in America: An Interactive History Adventure (Capstone Press, 2007).

Project Editor. The Encyclopedia of New York City (Yale University Press, 1995), New-York Historical Society, 1991–92.

KEYNOTE/PLENARY ADDRESSES AND NAMED LECTURES

“Three Philadelphia Stories,” plenary address to launch the Villanova Irish Studies Center, Villanova University, October 15, 2016. “The Idea of Diaspora,” keynote address at the “Global Migration Forum,” American Immigration Lawyers Association Annual Meeting, Boston, June 18, 2014. “Diaspora,” plenary address at the Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, University College Dublin, June 12, 2014. “Diaspora: An Introduction,” plenary address at the inaugural workshop of the Diasporas Project, Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia, New York University, January 31, 2013. “Who Were the Molly Maguires and Why Were They Important in the History of the Anthracite Country?” Second Annual Monsignor John J. Curran Memorial Lecture, King’s College, Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, January 18, 2013. “Abraham Lincoln and the American Irish,” Fourteenth Annual Ernie O’Malley Lecture, New York University, December 6, 2012.

“Diaspora,” keynote address at the conference “Beyond the Island: Transnational Approaches to History,” Moore Institute, National University of Ireland, Galway, April 20, 2012. “Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment,” plenary address at the conference “Irish and Scots Encounters with Indigenous Peoples,” University of Toronto, in conjunction with the School of Scottish Studies at Guelph and the Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at Aberdeen, June 10, 2010. “Race in Irish-American History,” keynote address at the Annual Meeting of the American Conference for Irish Studies, CUNY Graduate Center, New York City, April 20, 2007.

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“Ireland and Irish America in the Twentieth Century,” keynote address at the conference “20th Century Ireland and Irish America,” National University of Ireland, Maynooth, May 28, 2004. “New Perspectives on the American Irish,” Annual Hibernia Lecture, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, University of Notre Dame, November 1, 2002.

CONFERENCE PAPERS, WORKSHOPS, AND INVITED LECTURES

(Chair and commentator), at the “1st International Congress on the Global Irish,” University College Dublin, August 2017.

“The rise of the Irish diaspora,” invited presentation to a symposium on Paul Townend’s The Road to Home Rule: Anti-imperialism and the Irish National Movement, University of North Carolina-Wilmington, January 25, 2017. “Worcester v. Georgia,” invited paper and discussion at the Clemson Colloquium on Race and Ethnicity, Clemson University, South Carolina, November 13, 2015. “The Paxton Boys: Settler Violence Against Native Americans in Colonial Pennsylvania,” invited public lecture, Clemson University, South Carolina, November 12, 2015. “New Approaches to Immigration: Diaspora” at the conference “Managing Borders: An Interdisciplinary Conference on American Immigration Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act,” Columbia University, Heyman Center for the Humanities/Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, April 3–4, 2015. “Diaspora,” a public lecture and two undergraduate workshops, Global Learning Community, University of Illinois at Chicago, March 11–12, 2015.

Respondent to Alan Wolfe, At Home in Exile: Why Diaspora is Good for the Jews, Boston College, November 12, 2014.

(Chair) Panel on “Migration and the Memory of a Failed Revolution,” Ernie O’Malley Symposium on Ireland and Revolution, New York University, April 26, 2014. “Irish Emigration in the Nineteenth Century,” Boston College Core Lecture, February 5, 2014. “The Idea of Diaspora,” Society for the Humanities, Cornell University, November 12, 2013.

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“Lincoln’s Views on the Irish and Other Immigrants,” Boston Lincoln Group, Stonehill College, September 21, 2013. “An Irish Diaspora?” Celtic Studies Program, University of Toronto, September 19, 2013.

“Diaspora,” History Center, University of South Carolina, February 15, 2013. “Abraham Lincoln and Immigration,” History Center, University of South Carolina, February 14, 2013.

“Diaspora and Difference,” New York University, December 5, 2012. “Diaspora: An Introduction,” Boston College Seminar on Diaspora and Global Migration, Institute for the Liberal Arts, October 24, 2012. “Diaspora: An Introduction,” Boisi Center for Religion and Public Life, Boston College, September 19, 2012.

“Abraham Lincoln’s Image in Ireland,” paper at the Seminar on Historical Perspectives on National and International Affairs (jointly sponsored by the National History Center and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars), Washington, DC, January 23, 2012. “Benjamin Bannan and the Politics of Nativism, 1829–1875,” lecture and discussion at “Meet the Historians: Workshop for Boston Public Schools History and Social Studies Teachers,” Boston University, January 20, 2011.

“How to Create an Undergraduate Course,” a paper on the panel “Teaching Workshop: Recognizing Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching,” co-sponsored by the National History Center, the AHA Teaching Division, and the AHA Graduate and Early Career Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 6, 2011.

“The Paxton Boy Crisis of 1763–1764,” Fourteenth Annual Ohio Country Conference, “A New View of the Frontier,” March 28, 2010. “ ‘Oppression Makes a wise man mad’: Presbyterian Protest in Ulster and America, 1763–1773” at the conference “1763 and All That: Temptations of Empire in the British World during the Decade After the Seven Years’ War,” Institute for Historical Studies, the University of Texas at Austin, February 25–26, 2010. “Colonists and Natives in the Peaceable Kingdom,” Celtic Studies Program, University of Toronto, November 19, 2009.

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“Comparative and Transnational Approaches in Recent American Historiography,” Department of History, University of Edinburgh, July 7, 2009. “Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Holy Experiment,” Department of History, University of Edinburgh, July 6, 2009. “Abraham Lincoln and Ireland” at the conference “The Global Lincoln: A Conference Examining the Global Legacy of Abraham Lincoln,” St. Catherine’s College, University of Oxford, July 5, 2009. “Irish Immigration and the Meaning of Race in Nineteenth-Century America,” Teaching American History Program, American Social History Project, New York City, December 13–14, 2007.

“Ethnic Nationalism: Irish-American Resistance to British Rule in Ireland,” Inaugural event, Harvard College Irish-American Society, January 10, 2007. “Irish Immigration and the Meaning of Race in Nineteenth-Century America,” Teaching American History Program, NARA Regional Offices, Waltham, MA, March 23, 2006. “Irish Immigrants and Racial Prejudice in Nineteenth-Century America,” Teaching American History Program, American Social History Project, CUNY Graduate Center, New York, December 2, 2005. “Race, Violence, and the Irish in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World,” School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh, February 24, 2005. “Five Approaches to Irish Atlantic Migration,” School of History and Classics, University of Edinburgh, February 23, 2005. “Race and Diaspora,” Institute of English Studies, University of London, February 19, 2005. “Irish Americans and Race in the Mid-Nineteenth Century,” American Social History Project, New York City, February 11, 2005. “Ireland and the British Empire,” Irish Cultural Association of Rhode Island, Providence College, December 6, 2004. “The Molly Maguires and Popular Fiction,” Jail Museum, Jim Thorpe, Pennsylvania, October 22, 2004. “Ireland and the British Empire,” Glucksman Ireland House, New York University, September 23, 2004.

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“Ireland and the British Empire,” Irish Studies Program, Boston College, September 13, 2004.

“Violence, Race, and anti-Irish Sentiment in the Nineteenth Century,” Hertford College, Oxford University, May 25, 2004. (Chair/respondent) Panel on Irish America, Annual Meeting of the Organization of American Historians, Boston, March 27, 2004. “Diasporas and Cross-national Comparisons: The American Irish in Global Perspective,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Chicago, January 2003.

“The Irish in the Empire,” British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, October 11, 2002. (Chair/respondent) “No Irish Need Apply? A Myth of Irish Victimization,” Annual Meeting of the New England Historical Association, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, April 20, 2002. (Chair) “Asian Perspectives on Global Problems: Religion, Ethnicity, Memory, and Translation,” Annual Meeting of the New England Historical Association, Massachusetts Maritime Academy, April 20, 2002. “Response to R.F. Foster” at the conference “The Neale/Commonwealth Fund Conference: Re-writing Irish Histories,” University College London, April 5, 2002. “Violence and Ethnic Stereotyping: The Case of Irish America” at the conference “Ethnic Strife in Times of National Crisis,” Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, December 8, 2001 (co-sponsored by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the Arab-American Association of Philadelphia, funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts). “An Irish Diaspora?” Boston Immigration and Urban History Seminar, Massachusetts Historical Society, October 25, 2001. “Diaspora, Migration, and Ethnicity: The American Irish and U.S. Historiography,” Boston College History Department Dissertation Colloquium, September 28, 2001. “Teaching Irish-American History,” Annual Meeting of the American Conference on Irish Studies, Fordham University, New York City, June 7, 2001. “Diaspora in an Irish Studies Context,” Boston College Irish Studies Colloquium, March 26, 2001.

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(Chair/respondent) “Irish and Irish-American Media and Cultural Representation,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston, January 5, 2001.

“Race, Labor, and Nativism: A Response to Dale T. Knobel,” Annual Ernie O’Malley Lecture, New York University, November 16, 2000.

“The Place of the American Irish in the Irish Diaspora” at the conference “The Irish Diaspora: Writing, Researching, Comparing,” University of North London, November 4, 2000. “Irish Nationalism Since 1968: The American Connection,” British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, September 22, 2000. “Writing the History of the Irish Diaspora” at the conference “Ireland: Politics, Culture, Identity,” Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., May 16, 2000. “History of Irish-American Nationalism,” Tulane University, March 18, 2000. “The American Irish: Toward a Transatlantic History,” Boston College Irish Studies Colloquium, November 3, 1999. “History of U.S. Immigration and Ethnicity,” Colegio de México, Mexico City, April 19, 1999. “The Irish Migration to America: Main Themes, Topics, and Controversies,” Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Washington, D.C., January 8, 1999. “Making Sense of the Molly Maguires,” Annual Meeting of the Southwest Labor Studies Association, St. Edwards University, Austin, Texas, April 25, 1998. “The Molly Maguires: From Ireland to Pennsylvania,” British Studies Seminar, University of Texas at Austin, January 19, 1996.

“Irish Agrarian Violence and the Molly Maguires of Pennsylvania,” Annual Southern Labor Studies Conference, University of Texas at Austin, October 1995. “The Molly Maguires in Ireland and the United States, 1830–1880,” Annual North American Labor History Conference, Wayne State University, October 1994.

COURSES OFFERED AT BOSTON COLLEGE Undergraduate lectures:

American Immigration I (to 1924). American Immigration II (since 1924). The American Irish.

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The Global Irish. U.S. History Survey.

Undergraduate seminars: American Immigration. Abraham Lincoln. America’s Great War for Empire, 1704–1783.

Graduate classes:

Global Migration and Diaspora. Seminar on Nineteenth-century U.S. History.

Introduction to Doctoral Studies. Dissertation Seminar.

Summer abroad courses: Irish Migrations (Dublin), 2013. Italian Migrations (Rome), 2009, 2010.

COURSES OFFERED AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS Undergraduate lectures: Irish Emigration to the United States since 1700. The United States Since 1865. Undergraduate seminars: Junior Seminar in Historiography (Honors Program). American Labor History, 1780–1940. Graduate seminars: Comparative Immigration and Ethnicity in the United States. Labor Protest and Industrial Violence in the United States. Labor History: Theory and Method. COURSES OFFERED ELSEWHERE Undergraduate lecture: American History Since 1492 (City College, CUNY). Undergraduate seminars:

The U.S. South: From Slavery to Emancipation (Columbia University). The Historian’s Craft (Columbia University). DOCTORAL DISSERTATIONS DIRECTED

Katherine Carper, “The Business of Migration, 1837–75” (in progress, due to defend in 2019).

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Elizabeth Pingree (currently writing prospectus on transient labor migration, ca. 1865–1920). Mia Michael (currently writing prospectus on immigrant domestic service in the twentieth century).

Dr. Mimi Cowan, “Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Chicago, 1842–1893,” Boston College, December 2015.

Dr. Grainne McEvoy, “American Catholic Social Thought and the Immigration Question in the Restriction Era, 1917–1965,” Boston College, May 2014.

Dr. Ian Delahanty, “Immigrants in a Time of Civil War: Irish Americans, Slavery, and the Union, 1845–1865,” Boston College, May 2013. Dr. Hidetaka Hirota, “Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848–1877,” Boston College, May 2012. Dr. Meaghan Dwyer, “Ethnic Patriotism: Boston’s Irish and Jewish Communities, 1880–1929,” Boston College, May 2010. Dr. Ely Janis, “Nationalism, Gender, and Ethnicity in the Gilded Age: The Land League Movement in Ireland and the United States in the 1880s,” Boston College, May 2008. Dr. Niamh Lynch, “Irish Nationalism and Anti-Imperialism” (co-directed with Professor Kevin O’Neill), Boston College, December 2005. Dr. Damien Murray, “American Progressivism, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Evolution of a Boston Irish Identity, 1900–1924,” Boston College, May 2005. Dr. John Bieter, “Owyhee Canyonlands: Agent and Symbol of a Changing American Identity, 1860–1990” (co-directed with Professor Marilynn Johnson), Boston College, June 2004. Dr. Theresa Case, “Free Labor on the Southwestern Railroads: The Great Strike of 1886,” University of Texas, May 2002.

Dr. Gary Hartman, “The Immigrant as Diplomat: Ethnicity, Nationalism, and the Shaping of Foreign Policy in the Lithuanian-American Community, 1870–1922” (co-directed with Professor Robert Divine), University of Texas, December 1996.

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DOCTORAL DISSERTATION COMMITTEES SERVED ON (as a reader or external examiner)

At Boston College:

John Morton, “ ‘To Settle the Frontier on Sober Principles’: Power, Faith, and Nationality in the New England Maritime Borderlands” (in progress). Dr. Craig Gallagher, “Covenants and Commerce: Scottish Networks and the Making of the British Atlantic World” (July 2017).

Dr. Aniruddha Bose, “The Port of Calcutta, 1860–1910: State Power, Technology, and Labor” (May 2013). Dr. Gregory Walsh, “Loyalism in Revolutionary New Jersey” (May 2010). Dr. Jill Bender, “Defining the Empire: The Imperial Impact of the 1857 Indian Revolt” (May 2010). Dr. Michael Mezzano, “The Problem of Restriction in American Immigration: Italians and the Discourse of Science, 1860–1924” (May 2009). Dr. Anthony Daly, “British Radicalism and Nationalism, 1848–1870: Irish Questions” (May 2006). Dr. Heather Fryer, “Enclosed Worlds in Open Space: Federal Communities and Social Experience in the American West” (September 2002).

Dr. John White, “The Knock Apparitions and Pilgrimage: Popular Piety and the Irish Land War” (October 1999).

At the University of Texas:

Dr. Shereen Ilahi, “Amritsar, 1919: Irish ‘imperialists,’ Indian ‘rebels,’ and the Empire of Violence” (May 2008).

Dr. Jeffrey A. Dettmann, “Social and Political Consequences of Chinese Expulsions in Local, National, and International Contexts, 1885–1888” (May 2002). Dr. Patrick Walsh, “Boosting Bohemia: Counterculture, Development, and Identity in the American West, 1900–90” (May 2001). Dr. Elizabeth Pollard-Grayson, “ ‘Calling the Heart Back Home’: Irish Catholic Women in America, 1845–1915” (May 2001).

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Dr. Joanna Swanger, “Lands of Rebellion: Oriente and Escambray Encountering Cuban State Formation, 1934–74” (May 1999). Dr. Stephen Bosworth, “A True State of Crisis: Coal Workers, the State, and the Politics of Energy in Chile, 1902–1938” (May 1999). Dr. Shelley Sallee, “Inventing ‘The Forgotten Child’: The Whiteness of Child Labor Reform in the New South” (May 1998). Dr. Michael Snodgrass, “Deference and Defiance in Monterrey: Workers, Paternalism, and Revolution in Mexico, 1890–1942” (May 1998). Dr. Scarlett Bowen (English), “The Labor of Femininity: Working Women in Eighteenth-century British Prose” (May 1998). Dr. Katie Kane (English), “ ‘To Hell or Pine Ridge’: Legislation, Literature, and the Transatlantic Development of the Reservation” (May 1997). Dr. Karen Steele (English), “Rocking the Cradle, Rocking the System: The Cultural Representation of Femininity in Twentieth-century Ireland” (May 1996).

Elsewhere: Barry Patrick McCarron, “The Global Irish and Chinese: Migration: Exclusion, and Foreign Relations Among Empires, 1784–1904,” Georgetown University, April 2016. Patrick Mannion, “The Irish Diaspora in Comparative Perspective: St. John’s, Newfoundland, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and Portland, Maine, 1880–1923,” external examiner, Department of History, University of Toronto, September 2013.

Martin Russell, “Diaspora Strategies and Conflict Transformation: Irish-America in the Northern Ireland Conflict, 1968–1995,” external examiner, Clinton Institute (American Studies), University College Dublin, November 2012.

DEPARTMENTAL AND UNIVERSITY SERVICE

Boston College, Department of History: Member, Faculty Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2017. Department Chair, June 2014–May 2017. Chair, Fourth-Year Faculty Review Committee, Spring 2014. Chair, Second-Year Faculty Review Committee, Spring 2012. Chair, Faculty Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2011. Chair, Faculty Search Committee (19th-century U.S. History), 2010–11. Member, History Department Self-Study Committee, 2009–10.

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Member, Faculty Search Committee (Migration History), 2009–10. Director of Graduate Studies and Assistant Chair, August 2009–August 2010, June

2002–May 2005. Chair, Faculty Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2006. Member, Graduate Program Committee, September 2001–May 2005. Chair, Faculty Tenure Review Committee, Fall 2003. Chair, Interim Committee on Hiring Priorities, April 2002. Member, Faculty Tenure Review Committee, fall 2001. Member, Faculty Search Committee (African-American History), 2000–2001. Member, Faculty Second-Year Review Committee, 2000. Member, Undergraduate Curriculum Review Committee, Spring 2000. Member, Departmental Promotions Committee, 1999–present. Boston College, College of Arts and Sciences and University: Panelist, Dean’s seminar for new faculty (preparing tenure cases), February 2018,

February 2017, February 2016. Panelist, Vice Provost for Faculties seminar for chairs (preparing tenure and

promotion cases), November 2017. Member, Executive Board of Chairs, September 2016–May 2017. Member, Board of Chairs, September 2014–May 2017. Member, Subcommittee on Graduate and Professional Programs, University

Strategic Planning Committee, March–May 2016. Convener, Faculty Seminar on Diaspora and Global Migration, Institute for the

Liberal Arts, September 2012–June 2014. Member, Promotions and Tenure Committee, College of Arts and Sciences,

September 2011–August 2013. Member, Planning Committee for Sesquicentennial Conference, “Migration, Past,

Present, and Future,” January 2012–June 2013. Interviewer, Fulbright applicants, October 2010. Visiting Associate Professor, Queen’s University-Belfast, on exchange from Boston

College Irish Studies Program, March 2000. Member, Irish Studies Program, 1999–present. University of Texas, Department of History: Director, Undergraduate Honors Program, 1998–99. Member, Faculty Search Committee (U.S. History), 1998–99. Member, Curriculum and Scholarship Committee, 1999. Member, Graduate Admissions Committee, 1996–98. Member, Salary Committee, 1996–97. Junior Fellow, British Studies Seminar, 1994–99.

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EXTERNAL PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Member, Finance Committee, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, October 2017–present.

Member, Planning Committee, 1st International Congress on the Global Irish,

University College Dublin, August 2017, spring 2016–summer 2017.

Member, Executive Board, Immigration and Ethnic History Society, April 2014–April 2017 (member, New Programming Initiatives Committee, 2016–17; chair, Nominations Committee, 2015–16; member, Nominations Committee, 2014–16). Consultant, “#Immigration Syllabus,” a crowd-sourced, publicly accessible syllabus on U.S. immigration history developed by members of the Immigration History Research Center and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, January–February 2017. Evaluator, Trinity College Long Room Hub Visiting Research Fellowship Programme, January 2017.

Referee, candidates for election to the Royal Irish Academy, November 2016, October 2014, December 2012.

Member, Coalition for the National Museum of the American People http://www.nmap2015.com/), January 2011–spring 2016. National History Day (http://www.nhd.org/), telephone and video interviews with high school students for numerous projects, 2010–present. Historical consultant, “Interpreting Ohio’s Little Cities of Black Diamonds Microregion: The Untold Story of the Hocking Valley Coal Era,” 2009–2014. Chair, Local Arrangements Committee, Annual Meeting of the American Historical Association, Boston January 4–7, 2001, during the presidency of Professor Eric Foner. The committee sat from June 2000 to January 2001 and more than 5,000 historians attended the conference. Historical Advisor, Bunker Hill exhibit, Boston National Historical Park, Charlestown Navy Yard. Member, Advisory Committee, Museum of Irish America. Member, Advisory Board, Molly Maguire Historical Park, Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania.

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Advisor, “Teaching American History,” a federally funded program for high school teachers in New York City, 2004–2008. Advisor, American Social History Project, Center for Media and Learning, City University of New York Graduate Center. Research and conceptual work for the video series accompanying the textbook Who Built America? and for the CD-ROM and Web-based presentation Landscapes in Time, 1994–2008.

MEDIA

Television and film: “Irish-American Dynamiters.” Chris Newhard Film/TV: interview, December 7, 2015. “Strength in Union: The History of the American Labor Movement,” Arete Living Arts Foundation: interview about the Molly Maguires, Irish immigrants, and labor, November 20, 2015. “PA Books,” Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN): one-hour feature interview on Peaceable Kingdom Lost with Brian Lockman, June 2009. “The Green Square Mile: Story of the Charlestown Irish,” produced by Maureen McNamara: advisor and participant, Spring 2007. “Biography: Allan Pinkerton,” documentary film, A&E Network: participant, March 1999. “In Search of History: The Molly Maguires,” documentary film, The History Channel: participant, November 1998. “PA Books,” Pennsylvania Cable Network (PCN): one-hour feature interview on Making Sense of the Molly Maguires with Brian Lockman, July 1998. “The Irish in America: The Long Journey Home”: participant in documentary film, PBS, January 1998. “Chicago, 1968,” The American Experience, documentary film, PBS, David Grubin Production: researcher, November 1995. Radio: “New Books in History” (http://newbooksinhistory.com/?p=1153): one-hour feature interview on Peaceable Kingdom Lost, August 28, 2009.

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WIST, 690am, New Orleans (Eric Laborde show): interview on Irish-American history, March 12, 2008. BBC Radio 3, “Oscar Wilde in America”: participant, November 23, 2007. WVIA-FM, Scranton: interview on the Molly Maguires, April 4, 2007. BBC Scotland-Radio 4: interview on Allan Pinkerton, April 29, 2002: WWCS 540AM, Pittsburgh: interview on the Molly Maguires, September 16, 2000. National Public Radio: interview on “Irish Art Now,” an exhibit at the McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, November 3, 1999. Austin Co-op Radio: interview on the Molly Maguires, March 17, 1998. Pottsville Radio, Pennsylvania: interview on the Molly Maguires, June 22, 1998.

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES

Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools Doctoral Teaching Award, 2010. Boston College Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Doctoral Faculty Teaching Award, 2008. Irish-American Cultural Institute research grants, summer 2002 (declined), summer 1999, and summer 1995. British Studies Seminar, University of Texas, Junior Fellow, 1996–99.

Columbia University, Bancroft Dissertation Award, awarded annually to the best

dissertation in American history, politics, and biography, 1995. Whiting Foundation Fellow, 1993–94. American Historical Association, Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, April 1993. City University of New York Graduate Center, Center for Labor-Management Policy

Studies, Styskal Research Fellow, 1991–92. Annabella Kirkpatrick Prize Scholarship, awarded annually to the most distinguished

graduate in History Honours, University of Edinburgh, 1987.

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MEMBERSHIPS American Historical Association. Organization of American Historians. Immigration and Ethnic History Society. American Conference on Irish Studies. REFERENCES Professor Eric Foner, Department of History, Columbia University.

Professor R. F. Foster, Hertford College, University of Oxford. Professor David Wilson, Department of History, University of Toronto. Professor María Cristina Garcia, Department of History, Cornell University. Professor Wm. Roger Louis, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin.