Kevin Kenny is Glucksman Professor of History at New York University. He works on the history of Irish emigration, American immigration, and global migration. His books include Making Sense of the Molly Maguires (1998; 25th anniversary edition 2023), The American Irish: A History (2000), Peaceable Kingdom Lost: The Paxton Boys and the Destruction of William Penn’s Peaceable Kingdom (2009); Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction (2013); and The Problem of Immigration in a Slaveholding Republic: Policing Mobility in the Nineteenth-Century United States (2023). He is also editor of Ireland and the British Empire, which launched the Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series in 2004. He is a past President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society.