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Rachel Oppenheimer is a Part-Time Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Pittsburgh. She holds a PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. Her research focuses on radical dissent in 20th-century Northern Ireland and the United States, with particular attention to the Irish Republican Army (IRA) and the Black Panther Party (BPP). Her work examines how these groups constructed socio-political communities in opposition to state authority and how imprisonment influenced their strategies and ideologies.
In her dissertation, titled Of Prisons and Polities: The Black Panther Party, Irish Republican Army, and Radical Socio-Political Organization, 1966-1983, she analyzes the intersection of imprisonment and political resistance in both movements. Her publications explore themes like prison protests (e.g., the 1981 Dirty Protest in Ireland) and the narrative framing of paramilitary conflicts.
Rachel’s research bridges transnational perspectives on radical movements and state opposition, contributing to fields like conflict studies and political history. Her work appears in journals such as Éire-Ireland and Global Discourse.
