Scott Molloy Research Collection (Mss. Gr. 232)

Biographical note

Scott Molloy is a professor of labor and industrial relations at the University of Rhode Island’s Charles T. Schmidt Jr. Labor Research Center. He received his B.A. from Rhode Island College (1970), M.A. from the University of New Hampshire (1972), and Ph.D. from Providence College (1991). While earning his Ph.D. in American History at Providence College, Molloy worked as a bus driver and union business agent for the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority. He also sat on the executive boards of the Rhode Island chapter of the Federation of Labor and the Providence Central Labor Council. In 1987, Molloy founded the Rhode Island Labor History Society. He is an active participant in various Irish heritage groups, and helped create the Irish Famine Memorial in Providence, Rhode Island. In addition to honors such as Rhode Island Professor of the Year (2004) and the URI Foundation Teaching Excellence Award (1995), Molloy is the author of several books including "Trolley Wars: Streetcar Workers on the Line" (1996)," All Aboard: The History of Mass Transportation in Rhode Island" (2004), and "Irish Titan, Irish Toilers: Joseph Banigan and Nineteenth-Century New England Labor" (2008).