Katherine E Sorrels

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Katherine Sorrels researches and teaches modern European and North American history, with thematic interests in the history of medicine, ecology, and landscapes. 

She directs UC's Center for Cultural Landscapes and its flagship initiative, the Stowe Garden Project. 

 

Ph.D.: University of Pittsburgh 2009 (History; Concentrations: History of Ideas; Modern Europe; Jewish History)

M.A.: Central European University Budapest, 2000 (History)

B.A.: SUNY Binghamton 1998 (History)

01-2026 -12-2026 Greater Cincinnati Foundation Vital Places Grant

01-2025 -12-2025 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship

08-2021 TOME Award (Toward an Open Access Monograph Ecosystem)

08-2021 -05-2022 Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, Academic Year Writing Fellowship

05-2021 -05-2024 A&S Dean's Office Dean's Innovation Award

05-2020 -07-2020 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend

01-2020 -05-2020 Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, Ivan and Nina Ross Family Fellowship

09-2019 -12-2019 German Academic Exchange Service Conference Grant

01-2019 -05-2019 Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, Faculty Release Fellowship

09-2018 -08-2019 Dietrich W. Botstiber Foundation, Research Grant

05-2017 -04-2018 University Research Council, University of Cincinnati URC Interdisciplinary Award

09-2013 -05-2014 Charles Phelps Taft Research Center, University of Cincinnati, Academic Year Writing Fellowship

06-2012 -08-2012 Taft Research Center, Summer Research Fellowship

2019 Award for Innovative Uses of Technology in Teaching, University of Cincinnati All-University Faculty Awards

2020 Public Humanities Award, Charles Phelps Taft Research Center

2021 Gene Lewis Faculty Teaching Prize, Department of History, University of Cincinnati