Katherine Mooney

Associate Chair for Graduate Studies
James P. Jones Professor of History

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Contact Information

Office Hours

Tuesdays 1-2:30 (in person) and Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 (Zoom).

About

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.

Cultural History, 19th Century U.S., Slavery, Sports History, U.S. South

Spring 2025

IDS 2196 History of American Popular Culture

Fall 2025 HIS 6941 Teaching History at the College Level