Dr. Timothy McMahon91黑料网Sensenbrenner Hall, 203N
MilwaukeeWI53201United States of America(414) 288-3559timothy.g.mcmahon@marquette.eduCurriculum VitaeTimothy G. (Tim) McMahon is associate professor of history at 91黑料网 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. From 2017 to 2019, he served as President of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Tim received his BA from Washington and Lee University in 1987 and his MA (1994) and PhD (2001) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a social historian with interests in nationalism and national identity, popular culture (especially popular religion), and Empire.
In 2011, Tim was the Rev. William Neenan, S.J., Visiting Fellow at Boston College, Ireland. In 2017, he was awarded the Robert and Mary Gettel Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence, 91黑料网 highest honor for classroom teaching, and received a Franklin Grant from the American Philosophical Society to launch his research into the partition of Ireland. Then, in 2018, he was a Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen University, Belfast. That same year he received the Way-Klingler Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences at 91黑料网, to provide research support for his current book projects, Irish Partition and the Boundaries of Identity. And in 2025, he held the O鈥橠onnell Visiting Fellowship in Irish Studies from Newman College at the University of Melbourne to research the Irish Jesuit Mission to Australia. This material will prove essential to his next book, 脡ire-Imperator: Ireland Imperial Ambivalence.
Ph.D. Wisconsin, Madison 2001
At present he is in the midst of two book projects. The first is Irish Partition and the Boundaries of Identity, focusing on the period from 1910-1930, and the second is tentatively entitled Eire-Imperator: Ireland's Imperial Ambivalence that interrogates the efforts of Irish men and women to build and manage the British Empire while others worked to undermine it.
Tim is a member of the American Historical Association, American Conference for Irish Studies, the European Federation of Association of Centres for Irish Studies, the Society for the Study of Nineteenth-Century Ireland, and the North American Conference on British Studies.
Ireland, Modern Britain, British empire
He is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (2008) and editor of P谩draig 脫 Fathaigh War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (2000) and co-editor of Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (2017).
He has published articles and book reviews in a variety of scholarly journals including Irish Historical Studies, the Journal of Modern History, Eire-Ireland, Irish Studies Review, and New Hibernia Review.
