Erin C. Barr, Ph.D.

PhD. Purdue University
United States History since 1865, Irish Nationalism in the United States, American Immigration History, History of American Women and Gender, Political History

Publications

Journal Articles
"Fenians Over the Niagara: Irish Nationalism and Rebellion in Nineteenth Century Buffalo, NY." Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate 25, No. 2 (2023):  7-26.   DOI: https://doi.org/10.25071/1913-9632.39671 

Book Reviews
Cian McMahon, Coffin Ships: Life and Death at Sea During the Great Irish Famine, (New York: NY, New York University Press, 2021), Terrae Incognita, 2024.

Susan Matt, Homesickness: An American History, (Oxford: UK, Oxford University Press, 2011), H-Net Emotions, 2022.

Natasha Sumner and Aidan Doyle, eds., North American Gaels: Speech, Story, and Song in the Diaspora (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020)," Left History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Historical Inquiry and Debate 24, No. 1, 2021.

Courses Taught

Undergraduate
American Identity in Transition
American Immigration History 
History of American Women
Ireland and Irish America, 1776-1998
Twentieth Century America
United States History to 1865
United States History since 1865

Graduate
The Making of Modern America, 1870 – 1940