Kate Masur

U.S.; the Civil War and Reconstruction; slave emancipation; citizenship

Office: 201C
Phone: 847-491-2849
E-mail: kmasurnorthwestern.edu

Kate Masur (PhD University of Michigan 2001) works on questions of race and citizenship in the nineteenth-century United States and is especially interested in cities, social movements, and political theory, as well as slave emancipations throughout the Atlantic World. Her dissertation, "Reconstructing the Nation's Capital: The Politics of Race and Citizenship in the District of Columbia, 1862-1878," received awards from the University of Michigan and the American Studies Association. She is an editor of Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867, ser. 3, vol. 2: Land and Labor, 1866-1867 (under contract with Cambridge University Press) and is currently revising her dissertation for publication. Kate joined the Northwestern faculty in fall 2005 after spending the previous year as a fellow at the Library of Congress's John W. Kluge Center.

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