Prof. Michael O’Malley (George Mason University): ‘Policing and the Construction of Irish Culture: The Case of Captain O’Neill’

Michael O'Malley is Professor of History at George Mason University, Virginia. He is the author of Keeping Watch: A History of American Time (Viking, 1990); Face Value: the Entwined History of Race and Money in America (Chicago, 2012), and The Beat Cop: Chicago's Chief O'Neill and the Creation of Irish Music (Chicago, 2022). His most recent book, The Color of Family: History, Race and the Politics of Ancestry, looks at how authority over identity has shifted from community, to state and federal administrative records, to commercial genealogical companies, like Ancestry.com, linked to DNA databases. The book will be published by the University of Chicago Press in 2024. O'Malley helped establish the Roy Rosenzweig Center for History and New Media at GMU and was one of the early pioneers in the use of digital media.

This public lecture will take place in-person at the Council Chamber, Lanyon Building, Queen's University Belfast, and online via Teams.

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 Please join us afterwards for a reception in the Canada Room.