About the Instructor

BRENDAN P. O’MALLEY is a doctoral candidate in history at the CUNY Graduate Center. In addition to teaching at Brooklyn College and New York City College of Technology, he served for two years as a Writing Fellow in the Writing Across the Curriculum Program at Brooklyn College. He currently is a co-coordinator of that program. He is co-editor of Home Fronts: A Wartime America Reader (New Press, 2008) with Michael S. Foley. His dissertation is titled, “Managing Migration: Immigration and State Power in the Port of New York, 1847-1890.”