Miriam Nyhan Grey

Miriam Nyhan Grey has an interest in the intersections of migration, race and ethnicity and she focuses on immigrant and ethnic experiences in comparative frameworks. She has been on faculty at NYU since 2009 teaching an array of classes on Irish history and migration, oral history and comparative migration. She is a collaborator on the oral history collection at NYU's Archives of Irish America and has recorded oral histories in Ireland, Britain and the United States for over two decades. She hosts the weekly This Irish American Life public radio hour on Saturdays from 9am to 10am on WNYE 91.5 FM. In 2018, Miriam initiated the Black, Brown and Green Voices project to amplify the voices of Black and Brown Irish Americans. She sits on the board of the African American Irish Diaspora Network. Presently, Miriam is editing a collection of essays on Jewish and Irish American experiences in the United States with a leading scholar of American immigration Professor Hasia R. Diner. Miriam was the inaugural Associate Editor of The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series at NYU Press. 

P.h.D., Dept. of History & Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy.

M.Res., History & Civilization, European University Institute (EUI).

M.Phil., University College Cork (UCC), Ireland.

B.A., University College Cork (UCC), Ireland.