Katherine Mooney
Contact Information
Tuesdays 1-2:30 (in person)) and Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 (Zoom).
James P. Jones Professor of History
Katherine Mooney is interested in the cultural history of citizenship in the United States--how it is imagined and made into political and legal discourse, how it plays out in people's daily lives. Her first book, Race Horse Men, examines the generations of Black men who worked with Thoroughbred horses from the colonial period to the 1920s. Her most recent book, Isaac Murphy, tells the story of Reconstruction and Redemption through the life of one of America's first superstar Black athletes.
Publications:
Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey
Race Horse Men: How Slavery and Freedom Were Made at the Racetrack
Ruined By This Miserable War: The Dispatches of Charles Prosper Fauconnet
Teaching:
Spring 2025
IDS 2196 History of American Popular Culture
Fall 2025 HIS 6941 Teaching History at the College Level
