Cian T. McMahon. Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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1 EDUCATION Cian T. McMahon Department of History/Honors College University of Nevada, Las Vegas PhD (History) Carnegie Mellon University (2010) MA (History) University College Dublin (2002) BA (History) University of Manitoba (2000) ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS Assistant Professor Joint Appointment, Department of History/Honors College, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2014-Present) Post-Doctoral Scholar Scholar-in-Residence Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ( ) Department of History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas ( ) Visiting Instructor Department of History, Duquesne University ( ) Visiting Instructor Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University ( ) BOOKS The Coffin Ship: Irish Migration, Mortality, and Memory in Global Perspective, (in progress) The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity: Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015) PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES & BOOK CHAPTER The Pages of Whiteness: Theory, Evidence, and the American Immigration Debate, Race & Class 56, no. 4 (April 2015): International Celebrities and Irish Identity in the United States and Beyond, , American Nineteenth Century History 15, no. 2 (2014):

2 Cartoons in the Classroom: Using Digitized Political Caricatures to Teach Migration and Ethnicity, Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 4 (Summer 2014): Caricaturing Race and Nation in the Irish-American Press, : A Transnational Perspective, Journal of American Ethnic History 33, no. 2 (Winter 2014): Transnational Dimensions of Irish Anti-Imperialism, in Irish and Scottish Encounters With Indigenous Peoples, edited by Graeme Morton and David Wilson (Montreal/Kingston: McGill-Queen s University Press, 2013), Ireland and the Birth of the Irish-American Press, , American Periodicals: A Journal of History and Criticism 19, no. 1 (2009): 5-20 Irish Free State Newspapers and the Abyssinian Crisis, , Irish Historical Studies 36, no. 143 (May 2009): GRANTS, AWARDS, & FELLOWSHIPS William Morris Award for Excellence in Scholarship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2016) William Morris Award for Excellence in Teaching, College of Liberal Arts, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (2016) Honorable Mention, Donald Murphy Prize for Distinguished First Book, American Conference for Irish Studies (2016) NEH Summer Stipend (National Endowment for the Humanities, 2015) Bernadotte E. Schmitt Grant (American Historical Association, 2013/2014) Visiting Research Fellowship in Irish Studies (NUI Galway/Irish-American Cultural Institute, 2012/2013) Potts-Jordan Memorial Emerging Scholar Award (American Conference for Irish Studies West, 2011) Irish Education 100 (New York Irish Voice, 2010) BOOK REVIEWS Liam Kennedy, Unhappy The Land: The Most Oppressed People Ever, The Irish? in Canadian Journal of Irish Studies 40 (2017): M. Alison Kibler, Censoring Racial Ridicule: Irish, Jewish, and African American Struggles over Race and Representation, & Jennifer Mooney, Irish Stereotypes in 2

3 Vaudeville, in Journal of American Studies 51, no. 2 (May 2017): John Crowley et alia (eds.), Atlas of the Great Irish Famine in Journal of American Ethnic History 35, no. 4 (Summer 2016): Ely M. Janis, A Greater Ireland: The Land League and Transatlantic Nationalism in Gilded Age America in New Hibernia Review 20, no. 1 (Spring 2016): William Jenkins, Between Raid and Rebellion: The Irish in Buffalo and Toronto, in Journal of American Ethnic History 35, no. 2 (Winter 2016): Richard Lawrence Jordan, The Second Coming of Paisley: Militant Fundamentalism and Ulster Politics in New Hibernia Review 18, no. 1 (Spring 2014): David T. Gleeson, The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America in H-Albion H-Net Reviews (December 2013) Bruce Nelson, Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race in New Hibernia Review 16, no. 4 (Winter 2012): David Gleeson, ed., The Irish in the Atlantic World in Journal of British Studies 50, no. 4 (2011): Nini Rodgers, Ireland, Slavery, and Antislavery, in Foilsíu: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Irish Studies 6, no. 1 (Spring 2008): CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Within The Wooden Walls of That City Afloat : Emigrants, Community, and Power at Sea during the Great Famine, American Conference for Irish Studies (June 2018) Use All the Economy You Can : Preparing to Emigrate during the Irish Great Famine, [invited talk], Strokestown Famine Emigrant Walk (May 2017) Have Salt Beef With You : Scribbled Advice on Pre-Paid Irish Emigrant Tickets during the Great Famine, American Conference for Irish Studies (March 2016) The Convict Transport As Emigrant Ship: Crime, Punishment, and Emigration to Australia during the Great Irish Famine, American Conference for Irish Studies (April 2015) The Convict Transport As Emigrant Ship: Crime and Emigration to Australia during the Great Irish Famine, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (March 2015) A Permanent Monster Meeting : The Worldwide Irish Popular Press, , Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (August 2014) 3

4 Great Losses and Safe Arrivals: Press Reports of the Irish Emigrant Passage, , American Conference for Irish Studies (June 2014) Boarding the Coffin Ships: Gathering the Resources to Emigrate during the Great Famine, , American Conference for Irish Studies West (September 2013) American Slavery and Irish Opinion in Transnational Perspective, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies (March 2013) Celebrity Status in Irish Nationalist Culture, , American Conference for Irish Studies (April 2012) Internationalizing Irish Studies, American Conference for Irish Studies [Panel Organizer-Chair] (March 2012) Cartoons and Caricature in the New York Irish Popular Press, , American Historical Association Annual Meeting (January 2011) Anti-Imperialism in Ireland & Irish-Australia, Irish & Scottish Encounters With Indigenous Peoples Conference, University of Toronto (June 2010) Our World-Scattered Celtic Race : Irish Migration & National Identity, , American Conference for Irish Studies (May 2010) I Have Read Every Word You Have Spoken : Irish Migration & the Global Press, , American Conference for Irish Studies (April 2008) The Fusion of So Many Races : Young Ireland, Migration, and Race in the Atlantic World, , Program in the Carolina Lowcountry & Atlantic World (March 2007) POPULAR MEDIA & COMMUNITY OUTREACH UNLV Class Offers Historical Context For Upcoming Presidential Debates on The State of Nevada, KNPR Nevada Public Radio (September 2016) Immigrant Voices/Immigrant Debate, Guest Post, University of North Carolina Press Blog (April 2015) UNLV History Professor Examines Historical Irish Immigration on The State of Nevada, KNPR Nevada Public Radio (April 2015) The Glucksman Ireland House NYU Radio Hour, WNYE (April 2015) The Global Dimensions of Saint Patrick, Guest Post, University of North Carolina Press Blog (March 2015) 4

5 A Look at St. Patrick s Day, in Las Vegas and Ireland on The State of Nevada, KNPR Nevada Public Radio (March 2015) Ireland and Slavery Roundtable on Today With Pat Kenny, RTÉ Radio 1 (August 2007) Struggling Against Oppression s Detestable Forms: R.R. Madden and Irish Anti-Slavery, , History Ireland 15, no. 3 (2007): Eoin O Duffy s Blueshirts and the Abyssinian Crisis, History Ireland 10, no. 2 (2002): 36-9 UNDERGRADUATE & GRADUATE COURSES Fall 2018 HON 430 COLA 100 Soccer and the Making of the Modern World Great Migrations in American History Spring 2018 HIST 451 HIST 497 HON 111 Capstone Research Seminar Undergraduate Independent Study Themes in American Civilization Fall 2017 HIST 760 Graduate Independent Study HON 410 Did That Really Happen? Reading and Writing Historical Fiction Summer 2017 Spring 2017 [Università degli Studi della Tuscia, Viterbo, Italy] HIST 498 Immigration and Identity in American History HIST 464 Europe Since 1914 Fall 2016 HON 430 Soccer and the Making of the Modern World HIST 279 The News in Historical Perspective: Issues Facing the 2016 Presidential Candidates [1-credit] COLA 100 Great Migrations in American History Summer 2016 Spring 2016 HIST 733 HON 115 Research Seminar in Transnational History World Thought and Experience II 5

6 Fall 2015 HIST 732 HON 430 Transnational Perspectives on European History Pirates, Outlaws, and the Popular Imagination Summer 2015 Spring 2015 HIST 375 Sports and Societies in Global Perspective HON 110 Perspectives on the Western Experience I Fall 2014 HON 430 COLA 100 Soccer and the Making of the Modern World Great Migrations in Modern Human History Summer 2014 Spring 2014 HIST 464/664 Europe Since 1914 HIST 435C/635C Society and Culture in Modern Ireland Fall 2013 HIST 462/662 COLA 100 The French Revolution & Napoleon Great Migrations in Modern Human History Spring 2013 HIST 464/664 Europe Since 1914 HIST 435C/635C Society and Culture in Modern Ireland Fall 2012 COLA 100 Spring 2012 HIST 435C/635C Great Migrations in Modern Human History Society and Culture in Modern Ireland Fall 2011 HIST 102 The United States Since 1877 GRADUATE COMMITTEES/EXAMS Reader, PhD Dissertation Committee (Bridger Bishop), Department of History, UNLV (2016-Present) 6

7 MA Examiner (Kasey Raillon), Department of History, UNLV (Spring 2018) MA Independent Study (Kyle Nagy), Department of History, UNLV (Fall 2017) PhD Examiner (Bridger Bishop), Department of History, UNLV (Fall 2016) MA Independent Study (Kasey Rude), Department of History, UNLV (Fall 2016) MA Examiner (Leslie Lewis), Department of History, UNLV (Spring 2016) Reader, PhD Dissertation Committee (Nicholas Pellegrino), Department of History, UNLV ( ) MA Examiner (Lindsay Oden), Department of History, UNLV (Spring 2015) Graduate College Representative, MA Thesis (Kaitlin Peck), Department of Hank Greenspun School of Journalism and Media Studies, UNLV (Spring 2015) COURSE DEVELOPMENT HON 110/115 Standing Committee, Honors College, UNLV (2015- Present) Participant, Lied Library Special Collections Faculty Retreat, UNLV (12-13 January 2016) Teaching and Curriculum Committee, Department of History, UNLV (Fall 2015) D.E. HIST 101 Revision Committee, Department of History, UNLV (Spring 2015) Institute on Integrated Course Design for FYS [COLA100] (Spring 2012) UNIVERSITY SERVICE Undergraduate Coordinator, Department of History, UNLV (Fall 2017-Present) Student Success Committee, College of Liberal Arts, UNLV (Fall 2017-Present) William Morris Scholarship Award Selection Committee, College of Liberal Arts, UNLV (Spring 2018) William Morris Teaching Award Selection Committee, College of Liberal Arts, UNLV (Spring 2018) Assistant Professor Search Committee (Germany/Central Europe), Department of History, UNLV (Fall 2016) 7

8 Advisory Board, Migration, Demography, and Environmental Change: Global Challenges book series, Center for Migration, Demography, and Population Studies [UNLV] and University of Nevada Press (2015-Present) UK/Ireland Awards/Scholarships Committee (Rhodes, Mitchell, and Marshall), Honors College, UNLV (2014-Present) Awards/Scholarships Committee, Department of History, UNLV (2015-Present) Chair of Local Arrangements, Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies Annual Conference (Las Vegas, March 2015) Faculty Representative, Department Honors Program, Honors College, UNLV ( ) COLA 100 Critical Thinking Assessment Subcommittee, College of Liberal Arts, UNLV (Fall 2014) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE/PEER-REVIEWING Anonymous tenure referee, Department of History, University of New Mexico (2018) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era (2017) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for Irish Studies Review (2017) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for Journal of British Studies (2017) Content Consultant, Irish Immigrants: In Their Shoes [middle school-level, narrative nonfiction] for Red Line Editorial (2016) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for American Nineteenth Century History (2016) Anonymous peer reviewer, textbook proposal for Bloomsbury Academic (2016) Anonymous peer reviewer, book manuscript for Syracuse University Press (2016) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for Journal of American Ethnic History (2015) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for Journal of British Studies (2015) Anonymous peer reviewer, journal article for Law and History Review (2012) PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Research Assistant, Public History Inc., Winnipeg, Canada (2001) 8

9 PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS American Historical Association American Conference for Irish Studies Immigration & Ethnic History Society Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies 9