Kevin Kenny

Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of History

Kevin Kenny teaches and writes on the history of American immigration and labor, with an emphasis on Irish transatlantic migration. As the Americanist in the Irish Studies program, his publications include Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998), The American Irish: A History (2000), and, as editor, New Directions in Irish-American History (2003). He is a member of the Editorial Board of Advisors for the series “Irish and Irish Diaspora History” at the University of Wisconsin Press, and has served as guest editor for Éire-Ireland. He is currently writing  a book, Right by Conquest:  The Paxton Boys and the Disintegration of Colonial Pennsylvania, about Indian-European relations from William Penn to the American Revolution, with particular attention to the French and Indian War, and editing a collection of historical essays, Ireland and the British Empire, for Oxford University Press.