Dr Katherine Burns

  • Lecturer in Modern US and Global History (History)

Biography

Before joining the University of Glasgow in August 2025, I was the Bonn-Yale Anton Wilhelm Amo Fellow at the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance and Abolition and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies (2024-2025) and a Lecturer in American History at Aberystwyth University (2023-2024). I received my PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2024.

Publications

Prior publications

Book Section

Katherine Burns (2024) Open Access: ‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements Slavery and Emotions in the Atlantic World Crossref Metadata Search. ISBN 9781003500858 (doi: 10.4324/9781003500858-9)

Article

Katherine Burns (2024) ‘She Died from Grief’: Trauma and Emotion in Information Wanted Advertisements Slavery & Abolition Katherine Burns. ISSN 1743-9523 (doi: 10.1080/0144039x.2023.2260185)

Book Review

Katherine Burns (2024) Beyond the Boundaries of Childhood: African American Children in the Antebellum North by Crystal Lynn Webster American Nineteenth Century History Katherine Burns. ISSN 1743-7903 (doi: 10.1080/14664658.2023.2244812)

Katherine Burns (2023) Happy Dreams of Liberty: An American Family in Slavery and Freedom by R. Isabela Morales Slavery & Abolition Katherine Burns. ISSN 1743-9523 (doi: 10.1080/0144039x.2023.2203016)

Katherine Burns (2022) Slavery, Fatherhood, and Paternal Duty in African American Communities Over the Long Nineteenth Century by Libra R. Hilde Journal of Family History Katherine Burns. ISSN 1552-5473 (doi: 10.1177/03631990221116509)

Teaching

Pre-Honours

  • 1A: Scotland's Millennium: Kingdom, Union and Nation, c. 1000-2014
  • 2A: The Social and Cultural History of Europe, 1500-2000
  • 2B: Connected Worlds? An Introduction to Global History

Honours

  • Becoming an Historian
  • Imperial States: Race, War, and Expansion in American History, 1860s-1920s

PGT

  • Global History through Local Archives