Kathleen A. Keller, Ph.D.

Kathleen Keller

Assistant Professor of History  

   Eckerd College 

                             Welcome!  Please contact me at kellerka@eckerd.edu           




Teaching:In spring 2010 I will continue WHGC.  In history courses I will offer a course on the history of Modern Africa and Global History of the Modern Era (1500-present).  

I'm proud to be a part of Eckerd College's Africa Initiative.  I encourage my students to attend as many events as possible!

In June 2009 I participated in a three-week teaching workshop through the Asian Studies Development program at the University of Hawaii's East-West Center.  For a photo from my trip click here.

Research: My research speciality is Modern European history with an emphasis on French colonialism in West Africa.   I conducted research in France and Senegal on my dissertation "Colonial Suspects: Suspicious Persons and Police Surveillance in French West Africa, 1914-1945."  For some photos of my research travel, click here.

For my CV click here.

Biography: I was born in Cleveland, OH, but spent my teens in New Jersey where my family and roots remain.  I attended the University of Notre Dame where I earned a B.A. in history and French literature.  I earned my Ph.D. in Modern European history at Rutgers University in  2007.  I spent a year as a visiting instructor at Furman University before joining the Letters Collegium at Eckerd College as Assistant Professor of History in fall 2007.
I spent the summer of 2008 inParis, France continuing research on "suspicious" persons and other topics.  I recently took a weekend trip to Strasbourg in Alsace, near the German border.  For some pictures of my trip click here.



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