Email: janisel@bc.edu
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Dissertation Committee: Kevin Kenny, David Quigley, Cynthia Lyerly
Education:
Boston College (M.A.)
University of Oregon (B.A.)
Research Interests:
My research focuses on the history of American immigration and ethnicity, with an emphasis on the Irish in America. I am particularly concerned with the transatlantic connections of social movements in the United States and the Atlantic world. My dissertation focuses on the Irish Land League in the United States and examines the intersection of class, gender and ethnicity in the formation of Irish American ethnicity identity in the late nineteenth century.
Publications:
"Petticoat Revolutionaries: Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Irish Ladies' Land League in the United States," Journal of American Ethnic History, Winter 2008.
Entries on “Michael Davitt,” “Patrick Ford,” “John Devoy,” “Daniel Cohalan,” “Land League,” and “Ladies’ Land League,” in The Encyclopedia of Irish-American Relations, ABC-Clio, forthcoming.
Book Review: Francis Carroll’s Money for Ireland, Irish Literary Supplement, Spring 2003.
Book Review: Beverly E. Schneller’s Anna Parnell’s Political Journalism: Contexts and Texts, Irish Literary Supplement, forthcoming Fall 2006.
Fellowships:
American Historical Association. Albert J. Beveridge Research Grant, May 2006.
Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History Fellowship, Summer 2005.
Adele Dalsimer Graduate Research/Dissertation Fellowship, Boston College, 2004-2005.
Spencer Fellow, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas, April 2004.
University Fellowship, Boston College, 2002-2007.
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