Katherine Rye Jewell

Katherine Jewell is professor of History at Fitchburg State University in Massachusetts, where she teaches modern American history. A historian of the business and culture of politics, her work explores how ordinary Americans experience, interpret, challenge, and shape policy and culture. She is the author of two books, and her work has appeared in several outlets including the OAH's American Historian magazine and the Washington Post. She earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in History from Boston University and her B.A. in History and Anthropology from Vanderbilt University. She lives near Boston with her husband and three children.