Biography
Kate McGregor recently completed her PhD in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. Her doctoral research, There is only one way to be pretty! Racialized Beauty Norms in the Global German Empire, 1884-1939 focuses on the connection between race, power and beauty in the female spaces of the global German Empire. It explored the application, perception, and consumption of racialized beauty ideals by white German women and how they applied these standards to the local populations.
Publications
[Forthcoming] Wie werde ich sch旦n? und wie erhalte ich meine Sch旦nheit? (How do I become beautiful? and how do I get my beauty?): Gendered and Racialized Beauty Norms in the German South Pacific, 1884-1916 In Emergence of Gendered Power Structures since Early Modern Times: Practices, Norms and Media. Edited by Jutta Hergenhahn, Isabel Heinemann, and Hania Siebenpfeiffer. Estimated 2025.
Working for Weihnachtsstimmung: German Womens Role in Recreating German Culture and Identity in German Southwest Africa and German East Africa, 1894-1906. In Gender and German Colonialism: Cultures, Histories, and Theories. Edited by Chunjie Zhang and Elisabeth Krimmer. New York, Routledge, 2023. P. 49-65.
Education
Doctor of Philosophy in History (University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB) 2019 2025
Master of Arts in History Co-op (Brock University, St. Catharines, ON) 2017 2019
Bachelor of Arts Honours (Memorial University of Newfoundland and Labrador) 2013 - 2017
Teaching
HISTORY 5103 Gender, Race and Disease in the Atlantic World (Honours Research Seminar at the University of New Brunswick)
Research
揃 Modern Europe
揃 German Colonies and European Imperialism
揃 Women and Gender Theory
揃 Material Culture
Grants, awards & honours
Social Science and Humanities Research Council Doctoral Fellowship for the project There is only one way to be pretty! Racialized Norms Beauty in the Global German Empire, 1884 to 1939
Coalition of Women in German Zantop Travel Award for Graduate Students
University of Waterloo Centre for German Studies Diversity and Inclusion Grant
Central Europe History Society Research Grant
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Summer Course Scholarship