About
Katie graduated from the University of Chicago in 2019 with a B.A. in History and Russian & Eastern European Studies. Her History thesis, "'What Have the Capitalists Done for Us?': The Knights of Labor Challenge the Political Machine in Industrial Chicago, 1877-1898," won her honors for its tracing of a once powerful labor union's fall from grace back to its confrontation with the political machine of industrial Chicago.
Now, Katie researchs post-Yugoslav and post-Soviet cinema and literature, with a particular focus on the potential of these art forms to reckon with difficult history and challenge nationalist narratives of history. Her research stems from a broader interest in how collective memory and identity was formed in the multi-national socialist republics of Yugoslavia and the USSR, as well as how that memory was erased or rewritten in the dissolutions of the nineties. This interest in representations of history has driven her to the Museum Studies program where she is currently a certificate student.
When not thinking about how we form our identities, she can be found biking around Ann Arbor, trying out new coffee brewing methods, snuggling her cat, or, if you’re lucky, extolling the virtues of watching Survivor.
