Meredith Meagher
219 O’Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
353 (085) 139 - 8107
Curriculum Vitae
Education
Ph.D. Candidate, Department of History, University of Notre Dame (2008-Present, Currently Enrolled)
Dissertation Title: Ireland, The United States, and “The Nation of Immigrants,” 1919-1965
Directors: Dean John T. McGreevy and Professor Patrick Griffin
B.A. History, Hunter College, City University of New York, Magna Cum Laude (2008)
University Scholar, William E. Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (2004-2008)
Research Interests
Twentieth-Century United States and Ireland; Migration and Diaspora; National Self-Determination; Film
Honors and Awards
Notre Dame 1916 Fellowship, National Library of Ireland (2012)
Abba P. Schwartz Fellowship, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (2011)
Graduate Initiative Grant, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, U. Notre Dame (2011)
Graduate Student Research Award, Institute For Scholarship in the Liberal Arts, U. Notre Dame (2011)
Graduate Travel and Research Grant, Nanovic Institute for European Studies, U. Notre Dame (2011)
Participant, Irish Seminar, Keough-Naughton Institute, U. Notre Dame, Dublin, Ireland (2008, 2009, 2011)
Union of Graduate Historians Travel Grant, History Department, University of Notre Dame (2010, 2012)
Dorothy Doob Baumritter Graduate Scholarship, Hunter College, City University of New York (2008)
Paula Ens Scholarship, History Department, Hunter College, City University of New York (2008)
Edward T. Rogowsky Women’s Leadership Award, City University of New York (2007)
Horace W. Goldsmith Scholar, Macaulay Honors College, City University of New York (2006-2008)
History Scholar, Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History (2006)
Publications
1916: A Guide to Research (Dublin: Four Courts Press, Forthcoming 2014) (with Conor McNamara)
‘America as in Ireland: An International Perspective on Dublin 1913’ in Men and Masters: Reflections on the Great Lockout of 1913, John Gibney, ed. (Cork: Cork University Press, Forthcoming 2014)
‘The Girl Orator of the Bowery: Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, Ireland and the Industrial Workers of the World,’ History Ireland, Vol. 21, No. 4 (July/August 2013) pp. 28 – 30
Review, ‘Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum, Quinnipiac University,’ History Ireland, Vol. 21, No. 2 (March/April 2013) pp. 52 –53
Review, Stephen A. Brighton, Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2009) Journal of Middle Atlantic Archaeology 27 (2011)
“A Compromising Position: Frederick Douglass as an Editor and Publisher” in Frederick Douglass:
A Documentary History of His Fight for Freedom and Equality (New York: The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, 2010)
Invited Lectures and Panel Discussions
Panelist, ‘The Great Irish Famine, Part III: The Visitation of God?’ History Ireland Magazine Hedge School at the Dublin Festival of History, Dublin Castle, 26 September 2013, (with Tim Pat Coogan, William Smyth, and Kevin Whelan)
Panelist, ‘The Great Irish Famine, Part II: Genocide or a Series of Unfortunate Events?’ History Ireland Magazine Hedge School at the Electric Picnic Arts and Music Festival, Stradbally, Co. Laois, Ireland, 31 August 2013
Panelist, ‘Regional Perspectives on the 1913 Dublin Lockout,’ Byrne-Perry Summer School, Gorey, Co. Wexford, Ireland, 30 June 2013
Panelist, ‘The Great Irish Famine, Part I: Genocide or a Series of Unfortunate Events?’ History Ireland Magazine Hedge School at the History Festival of Ireland, Duckett’s Grove, Co. Carlow, Ireland, 15 June 2013
Panelist, ‘America and 1916,’ the History Festival of Ireland, Duckett’s Grove, Co. Carlow, Ireland, 15 June 2013
“1916 and Film” Conference – 1916: What it Means, Keough-Naughton Institute for Irish Studies University of Notre Dame, Royal Irish Academy, 30 August 2012
Conference Presentations
“Immigration and Labour in the Gaelic American, 1913 – 1916” Inaugural Meeting of the Irish Centre for Histories of Labour and Class, National University of Ireland, Galway, 21 – 22 November, 2013
“Irish Americans, Self-Determination and the 1924 Immigration Act” International Meeting of The American Conference for Irish Studies, New Orleans, Louisiana, 17 March 2012.
“Nations of Emigration, Nations of Immigration: The United States, Europe and International Postwar Migration Policy, 1924 -- 1952” From the Glorious Revolution to the European Union: Connections Between Britain, Ireland, and the Continent Conference, U. Notre Dame, 10 March 2012.
“A Great Transatlantic Drama: Environment, Diaspora and the Kalem Film Company” International Meeting of The American Conference for Irish Studies, The University of Wisconsin – Madison, 2 April 2011.
“Electrifying Inisfree: Environment, Authenticity, and Irish America in John Ford’s The Quiet Man” American Conference for Irish Studies Midwest Regional Conference, Grand Valley State University, 23 October 2010.
“Immigration, Sexuality and The Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization in New York City” Gender, Place and Space: An Interdisciplinary Conference, U. Notre Dame, 25 March 2010.
Respondent to “No ring…No marriage”: Morality, Gender and Freedom at the Barbadian Courts of Reconciliation, 1839-1840” by Denise Challenger, History Department Colloquium, U. Notre Dame, 19 November 2009.
Teaching Experience
Guest Lecturer, Keough-Naughton Centre Study Abroad Program (2013, U. Notre Dame)
Teaching Assistant, Dean John McGreevy, United States History, 1877-Present (2011, U. Notre Dame)
Teaching Assistant, Professor Erika Doss, Introduction to American Studies (2010, U. Notre Dame)
Teaching Assistant, Professor Patrick Griffin, The Irish American Experience (2010, U. Notre Dame)
Teaching Assistant, Professor James Turner, United States History to 1877 (2009, U. Notre Dame)
Related Professional Experience
Archival Researcher for a Documentary on the 1916 Easter Rising for Public Television (International Distribution)
Professor Bríona Nic Dhiarmada and Cathal Goan, Supervisors (May 2012 – Present)
Research Assistant, Professor and Department Chair Joseph P. Viteritti
Hunter College Department of Urban Affairs and Planning (2007-2008)
Research Assistant, Office of the New York City Public Advocate (2007)
University Service
Graduate Student Conference Planning Committee, Connections Between Britain, Ireland and the Continent
The Nanovic Institute for European Studies, University of Notre Dame (2011-March 2012)
Committee for Graduate Student Professional Development
University of Notre Dame Career Center (Academic Year 2010—2011)
Representative, Graduate Student Union
University of Notre Dame (Academic Years 2009-2010; 2010-2011)
Vice President for Academic Affairs, Union of Graduate Historians
University of Notre Dame (Academic Year 2010-2011)
Vice President for Social Affairs, Union of Graduate Historians
University of Notre Dame (Academic Year 2009-2010)
Professional Memberships
American Historical Association
Organization of American Historians
American Conference for Irish Studies
Immigration and Ethnic History Society
Language Training
Irish (Intermediate Speaking and Writing; Advanced Reading)
Department of Irish Languages and Literatures, University of Notre Dame
Supervisors
Dean John T. McGreevy Professor Patrick Griffin
College of Arts and Letters Chair, Department of History
University of Notre Dame University of Notre Dame
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