Email: dwyermk@bc.edu
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Dissertation Title: "Ethnic Patriotism: Identity Strategies and Group Consciousness in Boston's Irish and Jewish Communities, 1898-1929"
Dissertation Committee: Kevin Kenny, James O'Toole, David Quigley
Education:
M.A. US History & Cert. Archival Management, New York University
B.A. History, Colby College
Research Interests:
Meaghan Dwyer’s primary area of interest is the history of American immigration and ethnicity, with a emphasis on Irish and Jewish settlement and acculturation. She is particularly concerned with the ongoing development of ethnic identity across generational and community lines. Her dissertation compares efforts made by individuals in Boston’s Irish and Jewish communities to balance ethnic culture and identity with American loyalties in an era of “100 percent Americanism” (1898-1929). Meaghan is also the archivist at Temple Israel in Boston, New England’s largest Reform congregation, for which she has co-authored the forthcoming publication, Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel, 1854-2004.
Publications:
Becoming American Jews: Temple Israel and the Boston Jewish Community, 1854-2004, with Lisa Fagin Davis and Susan L. Porter (Boston: publication forthcoming).
“The ‘Irish Hour’: Irish Radio Programs in America,” Foilsiú 2.1 (Spring 2002): 19-30.
Entries on “Boston,” “Maureen O’Hara,” and “James Cagney,” (each 1,200 words) in the Encyclopedia of Irish-American Relations, (ABC-Clio, publication forthcoming).
Entries on “Irish America” (1,000 words) and “The Great Books Program” (300 words) in the Dictionary of American History (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2003).
Entries on “The Irish in Boston,” “The Irish in Philadelphia,” “The Irish in San Francisco,” and “The Irish in southern United States,” (each 500 words) in the Encyclopedia of Ireland (Gill & Macmillan Publishers 2003).
Review of “Brothers ‘Til Death”: The Civil War Letters of William, Thomas, and Maggie Jones 1861-1865, by Richard Trimble (Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2000), in New York Irish History 16 (2002): 17-18.
Fellowships and Grants:
Boston College, Irish Studies Fellowship, 2001-2006
New York University, Elmer H. Bobst Library/University Archives Assistantship, 1999-2001
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