Kate Birkbeck

Kate Birkbeck is an Ernest May Fellow in History and Policy at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs and a Ph.D. candidate in History at Yale University. Her dissertation looks at the international arms trade, the local white armed groups across the American domestic and overseas empire, and the federal policies which connected the two, in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. 

She holds previous degrees from the University of Cambridge and University College London. Her writing has appeared in Time’s Made by History series and her research has been supported by an emerging scholars award from the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. She also serves as a Graduate Writing Fellow and a Disability Peer Mentor at Yale University.

She encourages anyone with shared research interests to get in touch.