Mark Doyle is a professor of history at Middle Tennessee State University, where he teaches classes in British, Irish, and world history. He is the author of two books on religious conflict in nineteenth century Ireland and the British Empire and the winner of the Stansky Book Prize from the North American Conference on British Studies. Sometimes he writes about happier things: his most recent book, published in March 2020, is a social history of the British rock band the Kinks.