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Sadie鈥檚 research focuses on Irish Catholics recruited into the British Army during the American Revolution, a time when they were legally unable to enter service, but during which significant numbers were recruited nonetheless. Her research identifies Irish Catholic recruits and seeks to integrate their experience as soldiers into wider historiographical questions of imperial soldiering and the history of allegiance and subjecthood in the British empire. This group is unlikely to have left diaries or correspondence, therefore she reconstructs their military lives through the official record, focusing on methods of recruitment and tracking their careers via muster lists, promotion records, troop returns, officer correspondence, and pension applications. Archival collections of Catholic nobles involved in recruitment are also used to help identify individual soldiers for further investigation. Through analysis of this material, Sadie argues that Irish Catholic recruits proved to be effective soldiers who were well-integrated into the regiments in which they served. Further, Irish Catholics used the army as a place of belonging and a space where they could fit into the British Empire with soldiering as a uniting factor, rather than religion as a limiting one.听
Sadie holds a BA in History (European track) from Franklin Pierce University and an MA in History from Boston College.
PhD
厂耻辫别谤惫颈蝉辞谤:听Dr Stephen Conway听(Primary Supervisor) and Dr Jon Chandler (Secondary Supervisor)
Working title:听鈥淧atriots or Paychecks? Irish Catholic recruitment into the British Army for service during the American Revolution鈥�
Expected completion date: 2024
Conferences
Society for the History of War Annual Conference, presenter
鈥淚rish Catholic recruitment into the British Army during the American Revolution: A case study of the 46th Regiment of Foot鈥� (Nov 27-28, 2022)
IHR British History in the Long 18th Century Lighting Talks, presenter
Presented the methodology and preliminary findings for 鈥淧atriots or Paychecks? Irish Catholic recruitment into the British Army for service during the American Revolution鈥� (Mar 9, 2022)
Boston College Graduate Student Teaching Conference, panelist
Panelist in the 鈥淓xperiences of Graduate Teaching Assistants鈥� discussion (Aug 23, 2019)
American Conference for Irish Studies Annual Conference, presenter
鈥淚llegal but Extensive: Irish Catholic Recruitment into the British Army for Service in the American Revolution鈥� (April 20-23, 2019)
Comhfhois Boston College 2019: ANOIS: Navigating the field in 2019, organizer & panelist
Panelist in a roundtable discussion focusing on alt-academic careers (Feb 23, 2019)
Comhfhois Boston College 2018: 鈥楲iving Irishness鈥�, organizer (Spring 2018)
Publications and Exhibitions
Golden Spiders and Black Orchids: A 鈥楽atisfactory鈥� look into the life and mysteries of Rex Stout, John J Burns Library Exhibit (onsite and ), Boston College, Oct 2019-Jan 2020
, John J Burns Library Blog, Boston College, Sept 2018-May 2019
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Teaching听
Post Graduate Teaching Assistant, Writing Lab, 果冻影院
Post Graduate Teaching Assistant, HIST0007 Writing History, 果冻影院
Graduate Teaching Assistant, HIST1011 Atlantic Worlds I, HIST1002 Europe in the World II, Boston College
Prizes and Scholarships
Presidential Scholarship, Franklin Pierce University, 2012-2016
Emily Flint Scholarship, Franklin Pierce University, 2015
