Areas of Research/Interest: Irish America, Irish Diaspora, Ethnic Groups in American History, New York City, Film & History, Material & Popular Culture, Public History
External Affiliations: New York Irish History Roundtable; Irish Institute of New York; Senior Archivist, Archives of Irish America
Fellowships/Honors: Commendation, Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York (April 2005); Henry P. Lannen Award, New York Irish History Roundtable (April 2004); Hibernian Research Award, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame (April 2001); Irish Research Fund Award, Irish American Cultural Institute (February 2000); Centennial Historian of the City of New York (January 1999)
Select Publications: Making the Irish American, Editor, with Joe Lee, New York University Press, 2006. Ireland, New York and the Irish Image in American Popular Culture, 1890-1960 (Ph.D. New York University, 1998).
The Irish Experience in New York City: A Select Bibliography, co-authored with Ann M. Shea (NY: distr. Syracuse University Press, 1995).
From Shore to Shore: Irish Traditional Music in New York City, Historian & Associate Producer (documentary, VHS, Cherry Lane Productions, 1993).
"From the East Side to the Seaside: Irish Americans on the Move in New York City, 1900-1960" in The New York Irish, Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
"Irish" (main entry, 3,000 words) in The Encyclopedia of New York City, Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. (New York Historical Society and Yale University Press, 1995; revised for 2nd edition, 2009).
"Capital Punishment & the New York Irish," in New York Irish History, Vol. 12 (1998) (ISSN-1073-8339).
"Irish Americans," a 1,000 word entry in the Encyclopedia of America Studies, George Kurian, Miles Orvell, Johnnella Butler, Jay Mechling, eds. (CT: Grolier Inc. and the American Studies Association, 2000) .
“Family, History, and Irish America,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 28:4 (Summer 2009).
“Refractive History: Memory and the Founders of the Emigrant Savings Bank” in Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, J.J. Lee & M.R. Casey, eds. (NY: New York University Press, 2006).
"The Irish” (main entry, 5,000 words), Encyclopedia of New York State, edited by Peter Eisenstadt (NY: Syracuse University Press, 2005).
“The Limits of Equality: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Republic, 1789-1836” in Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History, Ronald H. Bayor, ed. (NY: Columbia University Press, 2004); this essay plus commentary on thirty documents from the period 1789-1836 also appears in The Columbia Documentary History of Race and Ethnicity in America, Ronald H. Bayor, ed. (NY: Columbia University Press, 2004) .
“Irish American Studies & Undergraduate Pedagogy,” Journal of American Ethnic History, 21:4 (Summer 2002).
Emigrant Savings Bank, since 1850, The Spirit of Thrift, Co-Producer & Historian (documentary, VHS, Time Lapse Media/Emigrant Bancorp, 2000).
