History Department

Gráinne McEvoy

ph.d. candidate

Grainne McEvoy

Email: mcevoygr@bc.edu


Curriculum Vitae: Please click here


Education:

MPhil Modern Irish History at Trinity College, Dublin

MA English Literature and History at University of Edinburgh


Research Interests:

20th century Irish-America, the Irish Diaspora and Catholicism, and U.S immigration, ethnicity, and race.


Awards and Fellowships

Irish Studies Fellowship, Boston College

Irish Fulbright Commission Award in Humanities 2007/08

Janet S. Christie Award, University of Edinburgh, 2005


Conference Presentations:

"'Britain’s Last Colony’: Postcolonial Rhetoric and the Irish-American Movement for Civil Rights in Northern Ireland, 1967-1972," The Northeast Conference on British Studies, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, November 15, 2008.

“John Mitchel and The Citizen: Mid-Nineteenth Century Irish Immigration and American Citizenship,” The New England Historical Association, Endicott College, Beverly, Massachusetts, October 25, 2008. 


Advisor:

Kevin Kenny