Dr. Jane McGaughey is the Johnson Chair of Québec and Canadian Irish Studies and Professor History and Diaspora Studies at Concordia University in Montreal. She is the author of Ulster's Men: Protestant Unionist Masculinities in the North of Ireland, 1912-1923 and Violent Loyalties: Manliness, Migration, and the Irish in the Canadas, 1798-1841.

Prior to her time at Concordia, she taught at the Royal Military College of Canada and was a National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Fellow in Irish Studies at the University of Notre Dame. Currently, she is the Principal Investigator on two projects funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada: "Mothers in the Time of Cholera: Motherhood, Migration, and Pandemics in the Canadian Colonial Medical System, 1817-1867" and "Colonial Hero or Villain? Mapping Commemorations of Guy Carleton in Canada, 1775-2025."