Participant Info
- First Name
- Kelly
- Last Name
- Lyons
- Country
- United States
- State
- MA Massachusetts
- lyonskj@bc.edu
- Affiliation
- Boston College
- Website URL
- Keywords
- nationalism, immigration, nativism, Americanization, consumerism
- Availability
- Media Contact
- Additional Contact Information
- PhD
- other credentials
Personal Info
- Photo
- About Me
Kelly Lyons is a PhD candidate studying U.S. history at Boston College, focusing on the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Her current research concerns the development of nationalism and American identity from the Gilded Age through World War II, as ordinary Americans helped to form their national identity through everyday rituals and symbols, in the period when the United States emerged as a global economic and military power. She is particularly interested in how everyday nationalism intersects with immigration, nativism, citizenship, and consumerism. She has also worked as a research assistant for Global Boston, a digital public history project on immigration in the greater Boston area.
- Recent Publications
- Media Coverage
- Social Media
- @kellylyons24
- Country Focus
- United States
- Expertise by Geography
- United States
- Expertise by Chronology
- 19th century, 20th century
- Expertise by Topic
- Capitalism, Government, Migration & Immigration, Politics
