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| Katherine B. Moore | |
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| Name | Katherine B. Moore |
| Occupation | Historian; Researcher; Author |
Katherine B. Moore
Katherine B. Moore is an American historian and academic known for her work on nineteenth- and twentieth-century transatlantic relations, social movements, and archival methodologies. Her scholarship intersects with studies of empire, migration, and print culture, engaging with archival collections, museum holdings, and international research institutes. Moore has held faculty positions and research fellowships at major universities and has published widely in edited volumes and leading journals.
Moore was born in the United States and raised in a region with close ties to the histories of Atlantic Ocean crossings and nineteenth-century industrial centers, influencing her interests in migration and maritime history. She completed undergraduate studies at a liberal arts college where curricula often involve cross-disciplinary work connecting Imperialism, Abolitionism, and regional histories of the United States. Moore earned a master's degree and a doctorate at major research universities known for programs in History, British Empire, and American Studies, working with advisors whose scholarship intersects with the archives of the British Library, the Library of Congress, and the National Archives (United Kingdom). Her doctoral dissertation drew on collections from the Bodleian Libraries, the Harvard University Library, and overseas repositories, situating her among scholars engaged with transnational networks such as the Royal Historical Society and the American Historical Association.
Moore began her academic career with postdoctoral fellowships at institutions that support early-career researchers, including fellowships associated with the Social Science Research Council and the Guggenheim Foundation. She subsequently held faculty appointments at a research university where she taught undergraduate and graduate courses on topics linking Victorian literature to political reform movements and where she supervised doctoral candidates with projects on colonial archives and diasporic communities. Moore has served as a visiting fellow at international centers like the Institute of Historical Research and the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, and participated in collaborative projects with curators at the Smithsonian Institution and the Victoria and Albert Museum. Her administrative roles have included membership on departmental committees that liaise with the Modern Language Association and the Organization of American Historians to shape graduate training and public history initiatives.
Moore's research advances interdisciplinary approaches to the study of print culture, digitization, and archival practice, engaging with debates prominent in scholarship from the Johns Hopkins University Press and articles appearing in journals associated with the American Historical Review and the Journal of Modern History. Her work analyzes networks of correspondence among reformers, merchants, and intellectuals connected to cities such as Liverpool, Boston (Massachusetts), and London, and to transnational flows that involve ports like New Orleans and Glasgow. Moore has contributed to methodological discussions about provenance and digital humanities projects that partner with institutions like the British Museum and the New York Public Library. She has examined case studies involving figures and movements linked to Chartism, Suffrage, and anti-colonial activism, drawing on source corpora that include newspapers archived at the British Newspaper Archive and manuscript holdings at the National Archives and Records Administration.
Her scholarship also intersects with museum studies and curatorial practice, collaborating with curators from the Museum of London and the National Maritime Museum on exhibits that reinterpret artifacts associated with migration and labor history. Moore's collaborative grants have involved partners such as the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, enabling the digitization of epistolary collections and the development of open-access teaching resources used by scholars at the University of Oxford, the Columbia University libraries, and other institutions.
Moore's work has been recognized with awards and fellowships from bodies including the Guggenheim Foundation, the British Academy, and national research councils that fund humanities research. She has received book prizes and article awards from professional societies such as the American Historical Association and the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for contributions to transatlantic history. Moore's fellowships have included residencies at artist-scholar spaces affiliated with the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, and invitations to lecture at venues like the Library of Congress, the Wellcome Trust, and the Royal Society of Edinburgh.
Moore balances scholarly commitments with public engagement, participating in panels hosted by organizations such as the Public Library Association and contributing commentary to programs produced by the BBC and public radio outlets like NPR. She has collaborated with community archives and local historical societies in cities where she has worked, partnering with institutions like the Massachusetts Historical Society and the Home Secretary's Office on outreach initiatives. Moore is known to mentor emerging scholars through mentorship programs coordinated by the American Council of Learned Societies and regional humanities councils.
- Moore, K. B., "Print Networks and the Transatlantic Public Sphere," in an edited collection published by Oxford University Press addressing nineteenth-century print culture, with case studies referencing the Times (London), the New York Times, and the Penny Illustrated Paper. - Moore, K. B., "Correspondence and Community: Letters, Migration, and the Archive," article in a journal associated with the University of Chicago Press, citing archival sources from the Bodleian Libraries and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. - Moore, K. B., co-edited volume on digital archival practice published with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and distributed through university presses connected to the University of California system. - Moore, K. B., "Labor, Migration, and the Port City," chapter in a Cambridge University Press volume that studies labor movements alongside materials from the International Institute of Social History and the Maritime Museum collections. - Moore, K. B., "Curating the Past: Museums, Migration, and Memory," essay in a museum studies reader published by Routledge with collaborative essays from curators at the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Smithsonian Institution.
Category:American historians Category:Historians of migration Category:Transatlantic studies