2024-2025 Visiting Graduate Student
Historian, researcher and producer, she has a degree in History from the University of Pernambuco (UPE), a Masters in History from the Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE) and was a junior researcher at the Joaquim Nabuco Foundation (FUNDAJ). Katharine obtained research grants from all these institutions and currently is a PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Program in Human Sciences at the Federal University of Santa Catarina (PPGICH/UFSC), a CAPES scholarship holder and a researcher at the Laboratory for Gender and History Studies (LEGH/UFSC).
She has been a member of the National History Association (Anpuh/Brazil) since 2019, coordinating one of its Gender research groups for 4 years. She has published books, chapters and articles on education, human rights, sexuality, art, Brazilian history and decolonization, as well as promoting training and consultancy in the same areas. She is currently a Visiting Graduate Researcher at the Center for Latin American Studies - University of Pittsburgh, and also collaborates with Desterro: Observatory of Violence in Florianópolis/SC and the Coalizão Negra por Direitos - the largest entity of the black movement in Brazil. Her work is part of the insurgency to dismantle the colonial matrix and other “Casas Grandes”.