Bree Hocking is the assistant editor for the State Historical Society of North Dakota. Prior to that, she was a research associate with the Belfast Mobility Project, an Open University-led study of segregation patterns and sectarian activity in North Belfast. She has also worked as an assistant editor at U.S. New & World Report and as a staff writer for Roll Call in Washington, D.C. She earned a PhD in Irish Studies at Queen's University Belfast, where her dissertation examined public art and the spatial politics of post-conflict regeneration initiatives. The author of “The Great Reimagining: Public Art, Urban Space, and the Symbolic Landscapes of a ‘New’ Northern Ireland" (Berghahn Books, 2015), Bree has published numerous journal articles and book chapters related to identity, cultural expression, and public space. Bree is a 2002 Mitchell Scholar. She received an MA in Peace and Development Studies from the University of Limerick. Her thesis research looked at Protestant perspectives on the 1998 Good Friday Agreement. An Irmgard Coninx Foundation grant recipient, she later spent time in Germany, assessing the post-communist transformation of the Berlin Wall and the extent to which artistic interventions can project new meanings onto historical structures of division. Bree obtained her undergraduate degree in international politics magna cum laude from Georgetown University.