EDUCATION
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
PUBLICATIONS
“We know neither Catholics, nor Protestants, nor Free-Thinkers here”: Ethnicity, Religion, and the Chicago Public Schools, 1837-1894,” in Colin Barr and Hilary Carey (eds.), Religion in Greater Ireland. Mc-Gill-Queen’s University Press, 2015.
“Ducking for Cover: Chicago’s Irish Nationalists in the Haymarket Era,” LABOR: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas 9 (2012): 53-76.
“Albert Parsons,” “The Molly Maguires,” and “John P. Altgeld,” in Encyclopedia of American Business, Labor, and Economic History, ed. Melvyn Dubofsky. Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
Review of Habits of Compassion: Irish Catholic Nuns and the Origins of New York’s Welfare System, 1830-1920, by Maureen Fitzgerald, New York Irish History 20 (2006): 69-70.
Review of An Atlas of Irish History, by Ruth Dudley Edwards, H-Albion:
http://www.h-net.org/ (August 2006)
Ph.D., History, Boston College
December 2015
Dissertation
"Immigrants, Nativists, and the Making of Nineteenth-Century Chicago: 1835-1894"
Dissertation Committee
Dr. Kevin Kenny, Dr. Jim O’Toole, and Dr. Marilynn Johnson
Fields
American Urban, Immigration & Ethnic History; American Religious History
M.A., Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
First Class Honours, November 2004
Thesis
“The Murder of Dr. Cronin: The Irish-American & Nativist Responses, Chicago, 1889”
Advisor
Dr. Mary Harris
B.A., Music, North Central College
Summa Cum Laude, June 1997
Lake Forest College
Spring 2013, 2014, 2015, & 2016
Religion, Architecture, & Urban Space
Lake Forest College
Spring 2016
Foundations of the American Republic
Lake Forest College
Fall 2014
Introduction to American Studies
Lake Forest College
Fall 2014
In the Loop: Professional Development for the Twenty-First Century
Lake Forest College, Loop Program
Spring 2014 & Fall 2014
American Cities
Lake Forest College, Fall 2012
Viva la Verdi: The Life, Times, & Works of Giuseppe Verdi
Newberry Library, Fall 2012
U.S. History II
(Teaching Assistant)
Boston College, Spring 2009
Transatlantic Modernities I & II
(Teaching Assistant)
Boston College, 2007-08 & Fall 2008
Modern History I & II
(Teaching Assistant)
Boston College, 2006-07