Dr Katherine Arnold PhD

Lecturer History

About

Personal Statement

I am a historian of the German, British, and Dutch empires, the history of science and the environment, and transnational and global history in the nineteenth century. I am primarily interested in subjects related to natural history collecting and collections, non-human and multispecies histories, botany and botanic gardens, and taxonomic debates in nineteenth-century science. I hold BA degrees in History and Anthropology from the University of South Carolina and an MA in European History from UCL. I have spent time as a US Fulbright English Teaching Fellow in Germany and undertook my fieldwork through affiliations with the University of Cape Town and Freie Universität in Berlin. I completed my PhD in International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science in 2021.