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Kate Birkbeck

Research Fellow

Ernest May Fellow in History & Policy, International Security Program
Email: kbirkbeck@hks.harvard.edu
79 John F. Kennedy Street
Mailbox 134
Cambridge, MA 02138

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 research interests are militarization and anti-militarizm movements, racial capitalism, and state formation in the United States and the World. 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 TimeMade 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.