Graduate Student Directory

- Title
- PhD Candidate
- Division Graduate Studies Division
- Department
- History Department
- Website
- Office Location
- Humanities & Social Sciences Building, N/A
- Humanities & Social Sciences Bldg, rm 150 (Grad Lab)
- Mail Stop History Department
Research Interests
Masters Thesis (2014): A War for Small Nationalities: The Great War, Nationalism, and the Irish Conscription Crisis of 1918
http://content.lib.utah.edu/cdm/singleitem/collection/etd3/id/2886/rec/106
Research Interests include: 20th Century British Empire, Anglo-Irish Relations, Irish Nationalism, Decolonization, Citizenship and Empire, British Social History, British Cultural History, Modern Irish History and Commonwealth History.
Biography, Education and Training
Education
- MA, Modern European History, University of Utah, 2014
- BA, History, San Jose State University, 2012
- Teaching (TA) Experience
- HIS 167A, The First World War, Fall 2018
- HIS 60, Medical and Scientfic Terminology (Online), Summer 2018
- HIS 174, History and Culture of Espionage, Spring 2018
- HIS 70A, Modern Europe 1500-1815, Winter 2018
- HIS 181, Modern Britain, Fall 2017
- HIS 71 The Holocaust, Summer 2017
- HIS 70B Modern Europe, Spring 2017
- HIS 70A Modern Europe, Winter 2017
- HIS 181A Postcolonial Britain and France
- HIS 71 The Holocaust: Destruction of European Jewry, Summer 2016
- HIS 75 Film and the Holocaust, Spring 2016
- HIS 30A Making of Modern Africa, Winter 2016
- HIS 70A Modern Europe, Fall 2015
- HIS 39B, Hurricane Katrina, Summer 2015
- HIS 70A, Modern Europe, Spring 2015
- HIS 65A, Medieval Europe, Fall 2014
- Teaching Certificates
- Inclusive Teaching (CITL Program), Spring 2018
- Teaching with Technology (CITL Program), Winter 2018
Honors, Awards and Grants
- Royal Historical Society Research Fellow 2018
- UCSC History Department Dissertation Research Fellowship 2018
- Humanities Institute at UCSC Summer Research Fellow 2018
- Institute of Humanities Research at UCSC Summer Research Fellow 2017
- UCSC History Department Dissertation Research Fellowship 2017
- UCSC History Department Pre-Dissertation Fellowship 2016
- UCSC Regents Fellowship 2014-2015
- Award for Best Dissertation/Thesis, University of Utah History Department, 2014
- Mildred G. Winters Memorial Scholarship, San Jose State University History Department.
Selected Publications
- “A War for Small Nationalities: The Great War, Nationalism, and the Irish Conscription Crisis of 1918” Published in Decies Journal, Waterford Archaelogical and Historical Society. November 1, 2018
- The British Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia Four Entries: Ireland, Anglo-Irish War, Eamon de Valera, and HMS Empire Windrush. (Santa Barbara, CA ABC-CLIO Publishers, 2018) July 2018
Selected Presentations
“By the Accident of Birth: British Subjects, Free State Citizens, and the Irish Diaspora in Interwar Britain” Presenter and Panel Organizer, North American Conference on British Studies Providence, Rhode Island October 25-28, 2018
“Reconsidering Citizenship: Decolonization and the Irish Free State” presented at Pacific Coast Conference for British Studies. Victoria, British Colombia, March 3-5, 2017
“A Declaration of War: The Press, Parliament, and the 1918 Irish Conscription Crisis” presented at “Ireland and the First World War Conference” at University College Cork. Cork, Ireland. January 24-25, 2014.