Tiffany Thompson is a history Ph.D. candidate at Boston College. She is also affiliated with the Irish Studies Program. Her research focuses on women and youth in Northern Ireland during the Troubles. Still in the early stages of dissertation research, she is working on a project about the dislocation of working-class Belfast families as a result of the street violence and riots that characterized the early years of the Troubles (1969-1977). As families fled the urban center of the North, many sought refuge in the Republic of Ireland, Great Britain, and beyond. This research seeks to uncover a story primarily about women and children and their experiences of violence at the hands of police and paramilitaries.

Before joining the history department at Boston College as a doctoral student in 2020, Tiffany earned a B.A. in history from the University of California, Irvine and completed a M.A. in European history, politics and society from Columbia University. Her master’s thesis analyzed the intersections of student protest, gender, and electoral politics through an examination of the Northern Irish civil rights activist Bernadette Devlin. Her work on Devlin has continued, specifically in reference to her complicated place in the memory of Bloody Sunday.