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April Masten

April Masten is a Professor of American History at Stony Brook University, who specializes in the labor history of the arts. She has published work on Black-Irish challenge dancing, female visual artists, genre painter Lilly Martin Spencer, the overlooked contributions

Eddie Pesante

Eddie is a doctoral student in the Anthropology Department at the CUNY Graduate Center. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Comparative Literature from the University of Puerto Rico, Mayagüez Campus, and a master’s in Anthropology from the Graduate Center at

Brennan MacDonald

Brennan MacDonald is an M.A. student in Irish and Irish-American Studies at Glucksman Ireland House, New York University. His current research project is an investigation into the Fenian Brotherhood within the ranks of the United States Army during the American

Roisin Flanagan

Roisin Flanagan is currently pursuing an MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies from Glucksman Ireland House at NYU.

Gracelyn Barmore-Pooley

Gracelyn Barmore-Pooley is a historian of gender and sexuality alongside American and Irish history, earning her B.A. in History (and B.S. in Psychological & Brain Sciences) from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2023 with highest honors. Her undergraduate

Sara Barenfeld

Sara S. Barenfeld is a writer, educator, and doctoral student at Stony Brook University where she is also a Turner Fellow. She holds a master’s in English from Montclair State University and a master’s in education from the University of

Kimberly DaCosta

Kim DaCosta is a sociologist interested in racial inequality and, in particular, the contemporary production of racial boundaries. Her book, Making Multiracials: State, Family, and Market in the Redrawing of the Color Line (Stanford University Press, 2007), explores the cultural

Marion R. Casey

Marion R. Casey trained as an historian with David N. Doyle at University College Dublin and with David M. Reimers at New York University. She is Clinical Professor of Irish Studies at Glucksman Ireland House and Affiliated Faculty in the