Student Affiliate
Giselle Gonzalez Garcia obtained her BA in History at the University of Havana in 2016 and her MA also in History at Concordia University in 2020. She is currently a third year PhD student at Concordia University’s School of Irish Studies under the supervision of Dr. Jane McGaughey. She is member of the Executive Committee of the Society for Irish Latin American Studies (SILAS), and of the Canadian Association of Irish Studies (CAIS). Her main subject of scholarly interest is Irish migration to Cuba during the nineteenth century. Her MA thesis focused on Pre-Famine Irish immigrants to Santiago de Cuba from 1641 to 1847 and won the Edward Eastman McCullough Award. She has authored “Dying in Havana: Microhistory of the Irish Immigrants buried in the General Cemetery, 1859-1862” (2019) and “Coffee Plantations and Irish Migration to Santiago de Cuba: A Historical Case Study of Radical Environmental Transformation” (2023).
