Professor in the Department of History and Art History at George Mason University in Virginia. Author most recently of “The Color of Family,” a critique of genealogy centered partly on Irish-born ancestors mine who were declared to be black by the state of Virginia

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/C/bo236256485.html

Also in 2022 “The Beat Cop: Chicago’s Chief O’Neill and the Creation of Irish music,” a biography of Francis O’Neill, who left Ireland at 17 and ended up as Chief of police in Chicago by 1901. O’Neill was an obsessive collector of Irish traditional music and the book is about the relation between policing and “culture making.”

https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/B/bo143122232.html