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 honors thesis, “‘We’re Here, We’re Queer, We’re Irish’: Excavating Transatlantic Queer Identity through the Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization” utilized extensive archival research from multiple continents to examine Irish-American identity making in the 1990s in the context of the St. Patrick’s Day Parade controversies. She is especially interested in uncovering and highlighting queer Irishness in American and Irish histories, and will be continuing her research later this year in the Irish and Irish-American Studies M.A. program at NYU Glucksman Ireland House.