Miriam Nyhan Grey has an interest in the intersections of migration, race and ethnicity and she focuses primarily on immigrant experiences in comparative frameworks. She has been on faculty at Glucksman Ireland House NYU since 2009, teaching an array of classes on Irish history and migration, oral history and comparative migration. Since 2008, she has been a collaborator on the oral history collection of the Archives of Irish America, at NYU’s Bobst Library, and she has been recording oral histories in Ireland, Britain and the United States since 2000. She hosts the weekly "This Irish American Life" radio hour on public radio on Saturdays from 9am to 10am on WNYE 91.5 FM and on www.nyuirish.net/radiohour. At present, she is preparing a book manuscript on drawing from oral histories with Irish immigrants in New York and London circa 1946 to 1961.

Miriam Nyhan Grey
Director of Graduate Studies, MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies Associate Director, Glucksman Ireland House NYU, NYU's Global Coordinator for Irish Studies.
P.h.D., Dept. of History & Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), Florence, Italy, 2008
M.Res., History & Civilization, European University Institute (EUI), 2005
M.Phil., University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, 2004
B.A., University College Cork (UCC), Ireland, 2000
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
Articles/Chapters:
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"The Irish-American Mews and Oral History"Academy and Legacy: 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)
Contact Information
Miriam Nyhan Grey
Director of Graduate Studies, MA in Irish and Irish-American Studies Associate Director, Glucksman Ireland House NYU, NYU's Global Coordinator for Irish Studies. miriam.nyhan@nyu.edu Glucksman Ireland House NYU 1 Washington Mews, Room 206 New York, NY 10003Phone: (212) 998-3953