Katie Fapp is a Departmental Lecturer in US History at the University of Oxford. Her research interests lie in women’s political history, the history of the US and the world, transnational and transimperial history, and Pacific history.
Her DPhil thesis, ‘To Clasp Hands...Across the Ocean: American Woman Suffragists in the Pacific World, 1893-1928’ examines the political worldmaking of American woman suffragists across transnational and transimperial networks in a Pacific context. Illustrating a new side of the transnational women's suffrage movement and uncovering the development of feminist networks across that ocean prior to the end of the First World War, it explores suffragists' use of transnational networks and knowledge creation in their fight for political equality for women globally amidst a world of empires.
Interested in the intersection of history and popular culture, Katie also produces and hosts the podcast Flashback: American Historians on Movies. Each episode she is joined by another historian to discuss a movie related to their field of expertise, how it portrays history, and what we can learn about our own relationship with the past from engaging with America’s most popular history maker – Hollywood.
Before arriving in the UK, Katie completed her BA in History, summa cum laude, at the University of Arizona. Moving to Oxford for her graduate studies, she was awarded the RAI’s Carwardine Prize during her MSt and continued on for her DPhil, which she completed in Trinity term 2024.
