Averill Earls is an Assistant Professor of History at St. Olaf College, and the executive producer of Dig: A History podcast. Her article, “Solicitor Brown and His Boy,” published in Historical Reflections, won the 2021 Judith R Walkowitz Prize. Her current book project is under contract with Temple University Press, Love in the Lav: A Social Biography of Same-Sex Desire in Postcolonial Ireland, and tells a history of same-sex desiring Irish men, the teen boys they loved, and the Gardaí who policed them. She is the co-author of a book on the Spiritualist community of Lily Dale, New York, forthcoming from Cornell University Press. In addition to the podcast, her public digital history projects include hosting on the Irish Studies channel on the New Books Network, and serving as Layout Editor of the collaborative digital publication, Nursing Clio.