Katherine (Kate) Culkin
I am a Professor of History at Bronx Community College.
Academic Interests
American Women’s History,
19th-Century American History,
metacognition, integrative learning
Positions
Professor, History, Bronx Community College
Professor, Biography and Memoir M.A., CUNY Graduate Center
Adjunct Professor, General Studies, CUNY School of Professional Studies
Publications
- “The Education of Ellen Tucker Emerson.” New England Quarterly 93, no. 1 (2020): 74-100.
- “Prophetic Dramas: The Time Travel Narratives of Harriet Hosmer and Frances Power Cobbe.” In Neglected American Women Writers of the Long Nineteenth Century, edited by Verena Laschinger and Sirpa Salenius, 158-172. New York: Routledge, 2019.
- “‘Doing Historian Business:’ Great Men and Local History at Bronx Community College.” Transformations: The Journal of Inclusive Scholarship and Pedagogy. Volume 26, no. 2 (2016): 246-255.
- “A Bridge, Not a Wall: Uses of the Hall of Fame for Great Americans at Bronx Community College.” In Remaking the American College Campus: Essays, edited by Jonathan Silverman and Meghan Sweeney, 57-78. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Co, 2016.
- Harriet Hosmer: A Cultural Biography. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2010. Associate Editor.
- The Harriet Jacobs Family Papers. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina Press, 2008
Education
Ph.D., History, New York University, 2002
B.A., English, Middlebury College, 1991
