EssayAContributors Steven M. Avella is an associate professor of history at Marquette University, Milwaukee, Wiscon - sin, specializing in the social and cultural history of twentieth-century America. He received his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and has written on the intersections of Catholicism with public life in the Midwest and the West. His articles have been published in California History, American Catholic Historical Review, U.S. Catholic Historian, Critic, and Records. He is currently at work on a full-scale biography of C. K. McClatchy. Jeffrey M. Burns is archivist for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and the director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Notre Dame and is the author of numerous articles and monographs on American Catholic history. His books include Amer - ican Catholics and the Family Crisis, 1930–1962; Disturbing the Peace: A History of the Christian Family Move - ment, 1949–1974; the multivolume History of the Archdiocese of San Francisco; and a co-edited documentary history, Keeping Faith: European and Asian Catholic Immigrants. Matthew L. Jockers is a consulting assistant professor and academic technology specialist at Stan - ford University. He teaches courses on Irish-American literature and computer methods of literary analysis research. Specializing in Irish and Irish-American literature, he has written extensively about Irish writers in the American West and developed an online database of Irish-American literature. Professor Jockers received his Ph.D. from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Currently he is Webmaster for the American Conference for Irish Studies and editor of the conference newsletter. Dermot Keogh is professor of history and head of the department of modern history, University College, Cork. The author of seven monographs and editor of eleven books, his most recent publica - tion is De Valera’s Irelands (co-edited with Gabriel Doherty). He has contributed to the New Gill History of Ireland and A New History of Ireland published by Oxford University Press. His book Jews in Twentieth Century Ireland: Refugees, Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust won the 1999 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize from the American Conference for Irish Studies. Professor Keogh is a member of the Royal Irish Academy. 299 © I RISH LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY 300 O THE IRISH IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA Lynn Lubamersky earned her doctorate at Indiana University and is currently an assistant profes - sor at Boise State University where she teaches in the history department. Her publications include “The Wild Woman in the Culture of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth,” in Women as Sites of Cul - ture, and articles in Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung, Zhenshchiny na krayu Evropy, the Polish Re - view, and the Journal of Baltic Studies. Tom McEnery —politician, businessman, and author—served two terms as mayor of San José, Cali - fornia. In addition to his involvement in regional commercial enterprises, he is a trustee of Bytes for Belfast and a promoter of business initiatives between San José and Ireland. McEnery holds an M.A. in history from Santa Clara University and has served as a presidential fellow at that university and a lecturer at Stanford University’s Graduate School of Business. He is the author of two books, Cali - fornia Cavalier and The New City State, and collaborated with John Hume on A New Ireland. Daniel J. Meissner received his Ph.D. in modern Chinese history and American foreign relations from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Currently, he is an assistant professor of history at Mar - quette University, teaching East Asian history and researching trans-Pacific migration and trade. Two of his recent publications are “Imports and Industrialization: China’s ‘War’ Against American Flour Imports, 1895–1910” in Twentieth Century China, and “Theodore B. Wilcox: Captain of Industry and Magnate of the China Flour Trade, 1884–1918” in the Oregon Historical Quarterly. Janet Nolan , born in San Francisco and a former high school teacher in Massachusetts, received her Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. A professor of history at Loyola University Chicago, she teaches courses in Irish, European, and Irish-American history. In addition to articles and scholarly essays, she is the author of Ourselves Alone: Women’s Emigration from Ireland, 1885–1920 and Servants of the Poor: Teachers and Mobility in Ireland and Irish America. She is currently working on a third volume in her trilogy on the impact of women on Irish and Irish-American history, Minds to Hands: The End of a Golden Age of Teaching, 1920 to 1935. Gearóid Ó hAllmhuráin is Smurfit Stone Corporation Professor of Irish Studies and professor of music at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. He received his doctorate from Queen’s University Belfast. Professor Ó hAllmhuráin is a performing musician, anthropologist, and ethnomusicologist specializing in the cultural history of Irish traditional music in Ireland and throughout the Irish di - aspora. He serves as United States correspondent for Raidió na Gaeltachta and contributes to numer - ous journals and newspapers. Among his publications is A Pocket History of Irish Traditional Music. Timothy J. O’Keefe is a professor of history at Santa Clara University. He received his Ph.D. at the University of Notre Dame. His articles have appeared in various journals including Éire-Ireland, Jour - nal of Church and State, Journal of the West, and Journal of Atomic Scientists. He is co-author (with James P. © I RISH LITERARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY ESSAYS ON GOOD FORTUNE O 301 Walsh) of Legacy of a Native Son: James Duval Phelan and Villa Montalvo and editor of Columbus, Con - frontation, Christianity: The European-American Encounter Revisited. Kevin Starr, a native San Franciscan, earned graduate degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, and Harvard University, from which he holds a Ph.D. in American Literature. He served as executive assistant to the mayor of San Francisco, as city librarian of San Francisco, and as state li - brarian of California. He is University Professor at the University of Southern California. He is the author of nine books, six of which are part of his Americans and the California Dream series. A Guggen - heim fellow and a fellow of the Society of American Historians, Professor Starr is the recipient of nu - merous prizes and honorary degrees. Daniel P. Walsh is a history graduate of the University of California, Davis, where he began his re - search on the Irish-American boarding house. He earned a Master of Arts degree under the direction of Professor Tadhg Foley in the multidisciplinary Culture and Colonialism Program at the National University of Ireland, Galway. His thesis examined American-sponsored immigration schemes from the west of Ireland to Middle America during the nineteenth century. He currently teaches history and information technology in Los Gatos, California. James P. Walsh is emeritus professor of history at San José State University where he has served as chair of the department, dean of the college, and vice-president of the University. 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