Kevin Kenny

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History

Kevin Kenny is Professor of History at Boston College. He took his undergraduate degree in History at the University of Edinburgh, spent his junior year studying at the University of Pennsylvania, and received his Ph.D. in American History from Columbia University. After working as an Assistant Professor for five years at the University of Texas at Austin he moved to Boston College in 1999.

Professor Kenny has written four books and edited two others. His most recent book is Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn's Holy Experiment (Oxford University Press, 2009). Before that he published Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (Oxford University Press, 1998), The American Irish: A History (Longman, 2000), and The Irish: Towards the USAGli irlandesi che hanno fatto l'America). He is editor of New Directions in Irish-American HistoryIreland and the British EmpireJournal of American History, the Journal of American Ethnic History, American Quarterly, and Irish Economic and Social History, among other venues, and he serves on the editorial board of Labor and British Scholar. (Turin: Umberto Allemandi, 2006, published in Italian as (University of Wisconsin Press, 2003) and (Oxford University Press, 2004).