Timothy G. McMahon is an associate professor of history at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and the Past President of the American Conference for Irish Studies. Tim is a social historian with interests in nationalism and national identity, popular culture (especially popular religion), and Empire. He is the author of Grand Opportunity: The Gaelic Revival and Irish Society, 1893-1910 (2008) and editor of Pádraig Ó Fathaigh's War of Independence: Recollections of a Galway Gaelic Leaguer (2000) and (with Michael de Nie and Paul Townend) of Ireland in an Imperial World: Citizenship, Opportunism, and Subversion (2017). Tim was named the Rev. William Neenan, S.J., Visiting Fellow at Boston College-Ireland in 2011, received a Franklin Research Grant from the American Philosophical Society in 2017, and was Visiting Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies at Queen's University, Belfast, in the spring of 2018. Also in 2018, he received the Way Klingler Fellowship in the Humanities and Social Sciences from Marquette, a three-year award, to facilitate work on his current book project about the impact of Irish partition on identities across the island.