Tara McCarthy
Tara McCarthy received her Ph.D. in history at the University of Rochester in the fall of 2005. She spent one year as a post-doctoral teaching fellow in the writing program at the University of Rochester, and one year as a Visiting Professor of History at Canisius College in Buffalo, NY, before joining the faculty at CMU. Her main research interests are American women, social reform movements, and immigration. Her current project traces the political activities of Irish-American women in the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, focusing on Irish nationalism, ethnic organizations, suffrage, and the labor movement.
Recent Publications
“‘The Humaner Instinct of Women’: Hannah Bailey and the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union’s Critique of Militarism and Manliness in the Late-nineteenth Century,” in Peace and Change, Vol. 33, No. 2, April 2008.
“‘Progress and Poverty’: Marguerite Moore, an Irish Woman in the American Reform Tradition,” in The Recorder: Journal of the American Irish Historical Society, Vol 19, No. 2. Summer 2007.
“The Medium of Grace: Mutual Criticism in the Oneida Community,” in Communal Societies, Volume 18, 1998.