Tiffany Thompson is a PhD student in History at Boston College, working under the supervision of Prof Rob Savage. Her dissertation, 'Fleeing the Troubles: Gendering Violence, Displacement, and Migration in Northern Ireland', examines women's unique experiences of violence at the hands of police and paramilitaries, of displacement and life in refugee camps, and of the process of conflict-related migration during the Troubles. She holds degrees from University of California, Irvine and Columbia University, and was awarded the John & Pat Hume Foundation Fellowship by the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2023. She is our QUB-BC Postgraduate Exchange student in Irish Studies for 2025.

This seminar will be both in-person and online via Teams.

[Image: An armed British soldier in Belfast, Northern Ireland during disorders in September 1969. (AP Photo/D. Royle)]