Katherine Mooney

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.