Email: hirotah@bc.edu
Education:
B.A. in Foreign Studies, Sophia University, Tokyo, Japan.
Dissertation Title:
“‘To any place beyond sea where he belongs’: Nativism, Citizenship, and the Deportation of Paupers in Massachusetts, 1848-1877.”
Dissertation Committee:
Kevin Kenny (Advisor), David Quigley, Cynthia Lyerly
Research Interests:
I study nineteenth-century United States social history. My major area of research is the history of immigration and ethnicity with an emphasis on the Irish in America. Other fields of interest include labor, urban, and Atlantic history. My dissertation explores the deportation of Irish-American paupers by Massachusetts nativists and examines the meaning of citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States. In doing so, it also illuminates the ambivalence between racial liberalism and ethnic intolerance in Massachusetts during the Civil War Era and the “round-trip” aspect of the transatlantic Irish migration.
Fellowships and Grants:
The Littleton-Griswold Grant, American Historical Association, 2008.
Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship, Massachusetts Historical Society, 2008-2009.
Research Expense Grant, Boston College, 2007.
University Fellowship, Boston College, 2005-2010.
Publications:
Entries on “Daughters of St. Crispin,” “Lynn (Massachusetts) Shoemakers’ Strike,” and “Pauline Agassiz Shaw” in Hasia R. Diner, ed., Women in American History: An Encyclopedia (New York: Facts on File), under contract.
Conference Presentations:
I have presented papers at various conferences, including the American Conference for Irish Studies (both national and regional), the New England Historical Association, the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center, and an association of graduate students in American Studies programs in Tokyo.
