I completed Ph.D study in History at Loyola University Chicago in 2007, producing the dissertation “‘Auld Sod’ and New Turf: Entertainment, Nationalism, and Identity in the Irish Traditional Music Community of Chicago. My current research interests involve interdisciplinary Ethnomusicology and
Natasha Casey is associate professor of communications at Blackburn College (Illinois) where she teaches media and information literacy, communication theory and other courses in the English and Communications department. She holds a Ph.D. in communication studies from McGill University. Her
Rachel Nozicka is a PhD student at Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, where she studies 18th-century British and Irish literature with a focus on poetry and form. She previously received her Master’s degree in Literature from Creighton University, where she
JiHyea is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Professor of History Ph.D. Loyola University Chicago 1989