Katherine Massoth

Assistant Professor

Bio

Katherine Massoth is an Assistant Professor of History specializing in North America, particularly the Southwest, the West, and U.S.-Mexico Borderlands, from the Spanish Colonial Era through the nineteenth century. She incorporates her background in digital humanities and oral history into her courses on women and gender, borderlands, the American West, and Chicanx/Latinx studies. Her interdisciplinary and intersectional approach to research and teaching embraces themes of gender roles, foodways, domesticity, cultural and ethnic identities, transborder networks, and gender and raced legal systems. Her book manuscript, “Keeping House: The Borders of Gender Roles, Cultural Practices, and Domesticity in Territorial Arizona and New Mexico,” brings light to the persistent roles of women in shaping daily politics in the North American Southwest after U.S. annexation in 1848.