Mark McGowan has taught at the University of Toronto’s St. Michael’s College (SMC) and in the UofT History Department. He is the author of several award winning books on the Irish migration and Irish religious culture in Canada including: The Waning of the Green: Catholics the Irish and Identity in Toronto, 1887-1922 (1999); Michael Power: The Struggle to Build the Catholic Church on the Canadian Frontier (2005); Creating Canadian Historical Memory: The Case of the Famine Migration of 1847 (2006); Death or Canada: The Irish Famine Migration to Toronto, 1847 (2009); The Imperial Irish: Canada’s Irish Catholics fight the Great War (2017). In 2023 he published a book (with Christine Kinealy and Jason King) on Major Denis Mahon’s assisted emigration scheme from the Strokestown Estate in 1847. His most recent bool, Finding Molly Johnson: Irish Famine Orphans in Canada (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2024) tracks the fate 1,700 Irish Famine Orphans in Canada. Mark is also an advisor to the Archives of the National Famine Museum at Strokestown, County Roscommon. He is the recipient of 4 University teaching awards.