I am a historian specializing in historic preservation and Irish-American relations in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. I completed my PhD in History at the University of Edinburgh and the book based on my dissertation, Two Irelands Beyond the Sea: Ulster Unionism and America, 1880-1920, was recently published by Liverpool University Press. I also recently completed the Graduate Certificate program in Historic Preservation at the University of Colorado Denver, and had an article published on the Irish in Colorado's Mining Towns in Colorado Heritage Magazine of Summer 2017.