Marion Casey

Marion R Casey

Director of Undergraduate Studies, Clinical Professor

Marion R. Casey trained as an historian with David N. Doyle at University College Dublin and with David M. Reimers at New York University.  Her goals are to use the longevity of Irish emigration to illuminate the evolving ethnic and racial experience in the United States; to explore diaspora and transnationalism from Irish and American perspectives; and to teach students how to think historically. In 1997 she established the Archives of Irish America in New York University’s Bobst Library and in 1999 she was named a Centennial Historian of the City of New York.

Education

Ph.D., 1998, New York University; M.A., 1986, New York University; B.A. 1983, University College, Dublin, Certificate in Archival Management, Historical Society Administration, and Historical Editing, New York University (1987)

 

Areas of Research/Interest

18th-21st century Irish, American, Irish American and New York City History; Ethnic Groups in American History; Film and History; Material and Popular Culture; Public History; Oral History; Digital Humanities 

External Affiliations

New York Irish History Roundtable

Irish Institute of New York

Senior Archivist, Archives of Irish America

Lower East Side Tenement Museum

Fellowships/Honors

December 2016
 Exploratory Research Grant, Hagley Center for the History of Business, Technology and Society
March 2010 Irish Woman of the Year, New York City Department of Education, IAH Committee
April 2005 Commendation, Office of the Comptroller of the City of New York
April 2004 Henry P. Lannen Award, New York Irish History Roundtable
April 2001 Hibernian Research Award, Cushwa Center for the Study of American Catholicism, Notre Dame
February 2000 Irish Research Fund Award, Irish American Cultural Institute
January 1999 Centennial Historian of the City of New York

Publications

Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, edited with J.J. Lee (NY: New York University Press, 2006)

“Victor Herbert, Nationalism, and Musical Expression,” Ireland’s Allies: America and the 1916 Easter Rising, ed. Miriam Nyhan Grey (University College Dublin Press, 2016), pp. 164-182

“Refractive History: Memory and the Founders of the Emigrant Savings Bank” in Making the Irish American: History and Heritage of the Irish in the United States, J.J. Lee & M.R. Casey, eds. (New York University Press, 2006), pp. 302-331

“The Limits of Equality: Race and Ethnicity in the Early Republic, 1789-1836” in Race and Ethnicity in America: A Concise History, Ronald H. Bayor, ed. (Columbia University Press, 2004), pp. 40-62

“Ireland and America: A Special Affinity,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Walsh School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University), 2 February 2021 

"History, House and Home," Being New York, Being Irish: Reflections on Twenty-five Years of Irish America and New York University’s Glucksman Ireland House (Irish Academic Press, 2018), pp. 70-75

“'From the East Side to the Seaside:' Irish Americans on the Move in New York City, 1900-1960” in The New York Irish, Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meagher, eds. (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), pp. 395-415

“Cornerstone of Memory: John Hughes & St. Patrick’s Cathedral,” American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 12 (2015), pp. 10-56

“Emigrant as Historian: Records, Banking and Irish American Scholarship,” American Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. 10 (2013), pp. 145-163

“The Irish Hunger Memorial, Battery Park City, New York” exhibition review, Journal of American History 98:3 (December 2011), pp. 779-782

“Family, History, and Irish America,” Journal of American Ethnic History 28:4 (Summer 2009), pp. 110-117

“Capital Punishment & the New York Irish,” New York Irish History, Vol. 12 (1998), pp. 35-45

“Irish” (main entry, 6,000 words, extensive revision of 1st edition entry), The Encyclopedia of New York City (2nd edition), Kenneth T. Jackson, ed. (Yale University Press, 2010), pp. 656-659 

“The Irish” (main entry, 5,200 words), Encyclopedia of New York State, edited by Peter Eisenstadt (Syracuse University Press, 2005), pp. 785-788

“Performing Ireland, Becoming American,” exhibition catalog essay for Ireland America: The Ties that Bind (New York: New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, 2011)