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Education

• BA, Indiana University, 1980
• MA, Indiana University, 1982
• PhD, Indiana University, 1987

Publications

• Out of the Ashes: An Oral History of the Provisional Irish Republican Movement (2017)  
• Ruairí Ó Brádaigh, The Life and Politics of an Irish Revolutionary (2006) 
• Open-access Documentary: Cumann na mBan: The Women’s Army (2019) (https://library.indianapolis.iu.edu/video/CumannnamBan) 

Awards

Winner of the “Outstanding Article Award” from the American Sociological Association Section on Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2011), for “Structural Identity Theory and the Post-Recruitment Activism of Irish Republicans: Persistence, Disengagement, Splits, and Dissidents in Social Movement Organizations,” Social Problems 57/3 (2010): 341-370. 

Academic Interests

Social Movements, Political Violence, Terrorism 

Service

• Dean, IU School of Liberal Arts, IUPUI, 2003-2008
• Chair, IUPUI Department of Sociology, 2012-2018a