Robert Savage directs the Irish Studies Program at Boston College. He is a professor in the Department of History where he teaches Irish, British and Atlantic World History. He has been awarded fellowships at Trinity College, Dublin, the National University of Ireland, Galway, Queen's University, Belfast and the University of Edinburgh where he held a Leverhulme Visiting Professorship. He is the author of four monographs, a short biography and an edited volume. He has also co-edited academic journals and published a number of articles and book chapters most recently with Irish Historical Studies, Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press.

His most recent book, 'Northern Ireland, the BBC and Censorship in Thatcher's Britain' was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. His 2015 book 'The BBC's Irish Troubles, Television, Conflict and Northern Ireland' was short-listed for the 2018 Christopher Ewart-Biggs Memorial Book Prize. https://bcbookmarks.com/2018/03/14/savages-book-on-the-shortlist/ Savage's 2010 book, 'A Loss of Innocence? Television and Irish Society 1960-1972' won the 2011 James S. Donnelly Prize for the Best Book in History and Social Science from the American Conference of Irish Studies.