Mo Moulton

After studying history at MIT (a surprising but happy choice), I worked in the non-profit sector, mainly on campaign financing, in San Francisco and New York. I earned a PhD, funded in part by the SSRC and a Mellon grant, from Brown University under the supervision of Professor Deborah Cohen. From 2010 to 2016, I taught at Harvard University’s History and Literature program.

I research the social and cultural history of Britain and Ireland in the 20th century. I study collectives and communities: how people understand themselves as part of a nation, part of a subculture, or part of a cooperative, for example. I use the frameworks of queer history and postcolonial theory to study the past and to think about how it relates to our present-day preoccupations.

I'm currently working on a micro-history of Irish cooperative creameries - which I think have a lot to reveal about the stories we tell about twentieth-century capitalism. I'm also pursuing a side-project into why, and with what consequences, 'chosen family' became central to modern queer communities.

I'm interested in supervising PhD projects on:
* twentieth-century Irish social history
* British or Irish queer history
* global histories of cooperatives or other collectives / alternative economic forms