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.

Miriam Nyhan Grey
Global Coordinator for Irish Studies.
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.
Book Publications
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Ireland’s Allies: America and the 1916 Easter RisingUCD Press, Dublin, Ireland, 2016.Editor
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‘Are You Still Below?’ The Ford Marina Plant, Cork 1917-1984The Collins Press, Cork, Ireland, 2007
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Being New York, Being IrishIrish Academic Press, Ireland, 2018Assistant Editor
Articles/Chapters:
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"The Irish-American Mews and Oral History"Being New York, Being Irish: Reflections on 25 Years of Irish America and New York University's Glucksman Ireland House
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‘Associational Behavior in Context: Irish Immigrant Origins of Identity in the Diaspora’American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 9 (2011)
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County Associations in Irish New York, 1945-1965New York Irish History, Vol. 22, (2008)
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La fuerza de trabajo en una planta Ford (Cork, Irlanda)Historia, Antropología y Fuentes Orales, Vol. 37, (2007)
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Narration and Memory: The experiences of the workforce of a Ford PlantIrish Economic and Social History, Vol. XXXIII, (2006)
Editorships
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Co-editorAmerican Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 14, (2017)
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Co-EditorCo-editor, American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 15, (Forthcoming)