Education:

• MA, Irish Studies, National University of Ireland, Galway
  First Class Honours, November 2004
  Thesis Title: "The Murder of Dr. Cronin: The Irish-American and Nativist Responses, Chicago, 1889"
• BA in Music, North Central College, Naperville, IL

Research Interests:

Mimi is interested in understanding the impact of nativism on the lives of Irish and German immigrants in late nineteenth-century Chicago and how their reactions to nativism were an important part of the development of Gilded Age Chicago. She also studies the connections between Irish-American nationalism and anarchism in the city and how these movements contributed to nativist fears of immigrants.

Conference Presentations:

• "Honorable Citizens, 'Lick-Spittles,' and the 'Vicious Classes: Irish Militias in Chicago, 1855-1875," American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans, 2012.
• "'To Make Them Love and Respect Our Institutions': Educating Immigrants in Reconstruction-Era Chicago," American Historical Association Annual Meeting, Chicago, 2012.
• “Sex, Murder, and Catholics: Battles for Control of Chicago’s Nineteenth-Century Public Schools,” Social Science History Association Annual Conference, Chicago, November 2010.
• "Murder, Corruption, and Catholicism: The Making of Chicago's Gilded Age Nativism," Chicago Graduate Student History Conference, Chicago, Illinois. 
• “John Finerty: An Irish-American in Mexico,” Society for Irish Latin American Studies Conference, Morelia, Mexico, July 2009
• “Margaret Sullivan: Writer, Republican...and Radical?” Irish Women’s Conference, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey, June 2009
• “The Construction and Destruction of a Radical Identity: Clan na Gael and Anarchism in 19th Century Chicago,” American Conference for Irish Studies, Galway, June 2009
• “Anarchism and the Development of Irish-American Nationalism in Chicago,” Labor and Working-Class History Association Conference, May 2009
• “The Murder of Dr. Cronin, Anarchists, and Chicago’s Irish Nationalists,” Illinois History Conference, Springfield, October 2008
• “‘A Fiery Cross Blazed Forth’: The K.K.K. in Worcester County, Massachusetts, 1924,” New England Historical Association Conference, October 2008
• “John Finerty: ‘Representative Irishman, True American, Consistent Patriot,’” American Conference for Irish Studies, New York, April 2007
• “The Murder of Dr. Cronin & the Chicago Nativist Movement,” New England Regional, American Conference for Irish Studies, Storrs, Connecticut, October 2006

Publications

• "Ducking for Cover: Chicago's Irish Nationalists in the Haymarket Era" in Labor: Studies in Working Class History of the Americas, accepted for publication, forthcoming.
• “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.
• “Augusta Lewis Troup,” “Margaret F. Buchanan Sullivan,” "Anne Sullivan," and “Maud O'Farrell Swartz,” in Women in American History: An Encyclopedia, ed. Hasia R. Diner. New York: Facts On File, 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).

Fellowships, Grants, and Awards

• Adele Dalsimer Dissertation Fellowship, Irish Studies Program, Boston College, 2011-2012 
• OAH-Immigration and Ethnic History Society John Higham Travel Grant,  Organization of American Historians (OAH), 2011
• Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy, Summer Research Stipend, 2010.
• Boston College Graduate History Department Summer Fellowship, 2010.
• King V. Hostick Award, Illinois Historic Preservation Agency, 2009-2010
• Donald J. White Teaching Excellence Award, Boston College, 2008-2009
• Boston College Graduate Student association Research Grant, summer 2009
• Labor and Working Class History Association Graduate Student Travel Award, 2009
• Boston College Irish Studies Fellowship for Doctoral Studies (2005-2010
• Fellowship from Boston College to attend Notre Dame Ireland Graduate Summer Programme (summer 2005)