Katherine Hijar received her PhD in history from the Johns Hopkins University in 2009. After 11 years as a history professor at California State University, San Marcos, she then served as a curator at the Mystic Seaport Museum in Connecticut and e. Her scholarly expertise is in US social and cultural history, with emphasis on women, race, gender, urban history, and visual, print, and material culture. Hijar interned at the AHA in 2002–03 and was a member of the Graduate and Early Career Committee in 2008–11.
Katherine Hijar
