Katherine Paugh
Assistant Professor
Office: Holton 387
e-mail: paugh@uwm.edu
Phone: 414-229-4924
Curriculum Vitae: pdf
On leave, will return in Fall 2013
Degree(s):
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
B.A., Virginia Commonwealth University
Research Interests:
Midwives and folk healers in the early modern Atlantic world; visions of race, disease, and the gendered body in early modern print; gender and slavery in the Americas; gender and abolitionism
Teaching Areas:
Health and healing in the early modern Atlantic world; the history of gender, sexuality, and the body in the early modern Atlantic world; the early modern Caribbean; colonial and revolutionary America
Courses Offered:
Hist 151: History of the United States to 1877
Hist 372: Health and Healing in the Early Modern Atlantic World
Hist 373: Slavery and Gender in the Atlantic World
Hist 405: The Age of the American Revolution, 1750-1789
Hist 600: Witches and Midwives in the Early Modern Atlantic World: A Research Seminar
Selected Grants and Fellowships:
Huntington Library Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2012-2013
Monticello College Foundation Long-Term Fellowship for Women at the Newberry Library, 2012-2013 (declined)
Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society, Summer, 2010
American Philosophical Society Library Residence Fellowship, Summer, 2010
Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World Travel Grant Recipient, Summer 2009
Gilder Lehrman Institute Dissertation Fellow, 2007
McNeil Center for Early American Studies Marguerite Bartlett Hamer Dissertation Fellow, 2006-2007
North American Conference on British Studies Dissertation Travel Grant Recipient, 2006
Selected Publications and Conference Papers:
“The Politics of Childbearing in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition, 1776-1838,” forthcoming in Past & Present
"Father-Rights and Master-Rights: Masculinity in the British Caribbean and the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition," Invited Speaker, Early Modern Masculinities Roundtable, SUNY-Buffalo, February, 2012.
Review of David Ryden, West Indian Slavery and British Abolition, 1783-1807, (Cambridge University Press), April, 2011, in the Journal of British Studies.
"Syphilis, Sexuality, and Cultures of Disease in the Atlantic World, 1600-1833," Symposium on Atlantic Migrations During Slavery, Invited Speaker, Virginia Commonwealth University, April, 2011.
"The Great Pox: Yaws, Syphilis, and Cultures of Disease in the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition," Annual Meeting of the Society of Early Americanists, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, March, 2011.
“The Politics of Reproduction on Codrington Plantation and in the Atlantic World during the Age of Abolition,” Annual Conference of the Association of Caribbean Historians, Bridgetown, Barbados, May, 2010.
Review of Daina Ramey Berry, Swing the Sickle for the Harvest is Ripe: Gender and Slavery in Antebellum Georgia, Summer 2008, Journal of the Early Republic.
"A West Indian Midwife's Tale: The Politics of Childbirth on Newton Plantation,” presented at the Johns Hopkins University Early America Seminar, Baltimore, Maryland, April, 2008.
"Rationalizing Reproduction: Abolitionism and the Preservation of the West Indian Labor Supply," presented at the conference Abolitions 1807-2007, University of York, York, UK, April, 2007.