Samantha (Sam) Haddad Prophet

Bio

Samantha Haddad Prophet is a third-year History PhD candidate specializing in Irish American history. Sam’s research interests concern policing, immigration, incarceration, republicanism, the law, and undocumented Irish migration to the United States during the late twentieth century. Her dissertation, tentatively entitled, “Policing Paddies: Undocumented Irish Migration, Law Enforcement, and the Jurisdictional Boundaries of American Policing Powers, 1986-1996,” examines the relationship between federalism, different levels of law enforcement, and undocumented Irish migration, exploring how different government actors utilized local, federal, and international jurisdiction to police, or rather to avoid policing, undocumented Irish migrants. Sam’s work has been generously supported and awarded by the American Conference of Irish Studies (ACIS) and the Immigration and Ethnic History Society (IEHS) among others. Samantha has served as a contributor to Writing the Troubles and Reconstructing the Ethnic Village as well as being published in the Australian Journal of Irish Studies and the Irish Studies Review. Samantha will serve as instructor of record in Fall 2025, for the course “We Didn’t Start the Fire: The United States from World War II to Your Lives.” She also serves Swem Library’s Special Collections Research Center Research in their instruction, curatorial, and digital services.

Sam received her M.A in Irish and Irish American Studies from New York University (2021) and her M.A. in History from William & Mary (2023) and B.A. in History and Art History from Mount Holyoke College (2019), graduating Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, and with High Honors.