Samantha (Sam) Haddad is a first-year Ph.D. student at the College of William and Mary where she explores the relationship between social activism and transatlantic Irish republicanism during the Troubles. Samantha graduated Magna Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, and with departmental honors from Mount Holyoke College in 2019 and holds a B.A. in both History and Art History. In 2021, Samantha obtained her M.A. in Irish and Irish American Studies from New York University. That same year, the American Conference of Irish Studies recognized her work at both the national and regional levels. Her current work explores the political dynamic between Sinn Féin, Noraid, and American grassroots organizations from the 1970s onwards. Samantha has served as a contributor to Writing the Troubles, Reconstructing the Ethnic Village, and public history projects concerning contemporary Irish and Irish American history, with forthcoming published work concerning race and Irish womanhood, and female prisoner’s material culture during the Northern Irish conflict.