Dr Sophie Cooper is Senior Lecturer and Subject Lead in Liberal Arts at Queen’s University Belfast. Sophie is a social historian of Irish migration, with particular focus on gender, religion, and the built environment during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Sophie’s monograph, Forging Identities in the Irish World: Melbourne and Chicago, c.1830-1922 (Edinburgh University Press, 2022), was awarded the ACIS Lawrence J. McCaffrey Prize for Books on Irish America in 2023. She is part of the Histories of Emotion in the Built Environment (HEBE) network and her recent publications include articles on women religious, material culture, and gendered minorities in the city.