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Kathleen Casey received her doctorate in History in 2010 from the University of Rochester, where she was the recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Award for Most Distinguished Dissertation in Women’s Studies. Before joining the faculty of the History Department and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program at Virginia Wesleyan College in 2012, she was the Dean’s Visiting Assistant Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, Honors College. Dr. Casey currently teaches a variety of courses, including African American History Since the Civil War, Apparel in American History, The Pursuit of Pleasure: A History of Recreation in America, U.S. Women’s History, Big Brother in the Bedroom, and Introduction to Women and Gender Studies.

Her areas of expertise include late nineteenth and early twentieth-century American cultural and social history. Her research interests include modern American popular and material culture, gender and sexuality, and African-American history. She is the recipient of a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 2016 VFIC Mednick Memorial Fellowship. She is currently working on her second book project, a social and cultural biography of the purse in America from the 19th century to the present.