Scholarship + Teaching

Kathryn’s research interests include religious communities in the Eastern Bloc, post-1945 East and Southeast Asia, gender history, queer Catholicism, memory cultures, and histories of death and dying. Her research has been supported by the Fulbright Program, Central European Historical Society, DAAD, and the German Historical Institute.

As an instructor and professor of history, Kathryn has taught a wide range of courses, including Film & Memory, Supernatural Europe, Coffeehouses & Culture, Death on Display, Dark Tourism, and the Rise of Autocracies. Below you can find some of her past syllabi.

Review of Magda Teter’s Christian Supremacy: Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism in The Christian Century (August 2024).

Review of Monica Black’s A Demon-Haunted Land: Witches, Wonder Doctors, and the Ghosts of the Past in Post-WWII Germany, New York: Metropolitan Books, 2020. George L. Mosse Center’s New Books (April 2021).

“Under the Habit: Resistance of Catholic Sisters against East German State Authority in the 1950s,” in Gendering Post-1945 German History: Entanglements. Friederike Bruehoefener, Karen Hagemann, and Donna Harsch, eds. Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2019.

Selected Reviews and Publications

Selected Syllabi

Supernatural Europe

Death on Display

Global Coffee Cultures

Film & Memory

Global Cold War

Comparative Revolutions