Our Faculty

Katherine A. S. Sibley, Ph.D.

Professor, Director of American Studies Program

Karen Sibley Ph.D.

Department

Office

Barbelin Hall 112M

Phone

610-660-1741
Contact
    • B.A., M.A., Ph.D., University of California, Santa Barbara

  • Monographs

    • Michelle Obama: “Mom in Chief”, 2009-2017 (University Press of Kansas, forthcoming)
    • First Lady Florence Harding: Behind the Tragedy and Controversy (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2009).
    • Red Spies in America: Stolen Secrets and the Dawn of the Cold War (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2007, 2004)
    • The Cold War (Westport, Conn.: Greenwood,1998)
    • Loans and Legitimacy: The Evolution of Soviet-American Relations, 1919-1933 (Lexington: University of Kentucky,1996). Winner, 1997 Phi Alpha Theta  Book Award for Best First Book.

     

    Edited Volumes

     

    Conferences Organized

    • “One Hundred Years of American Communism in the USA,” November 9-10, 2018, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ghfvkE_QXE
    • “Southern Belles, Washington Balls, and Dixie’s Reach: How Southern First Ladies Changed America’s Compass,” March 28, 2018, Center for Presidential History, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; http://blog.smu.edu/cph/events/southern-belles/
    • “Reflections on The New Era: Reassessing the 1920s,” November 14-15, 2014, Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2jaqLg96vE
    • Journal Special Issue Guest Editor
    • Guest editor for Diplomatic History, Special Issue on Sexuality and Gender in Foreign Relations 36:4 (September 2012), 696-98.

     

    Book Chapters

    • With Catherine Allgor, “Introduction,” in Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History (University Press of Kansas, 2021)
    • “Reflecting on the Activism of Twentieth- and Twenty-First Century First Ladies,” in Southern First Ladies: Culture and Place in White House History (University Press of Kansas, 2021)
    • “Soviet Spies, Russian Trolls, and the U.S. Security State: Russia’s Legacy on American Politics and Culture since 1919,” in Pedersen, Ryan, and Sibley, eds., Post-Cold War Revelations and the American Communist Party: Citizens, Revolutionaries, and Spies (Bloomsbury, 2021).
    • “Introduction” and “Florence Kling Harding: Celebrity and Activist,” in Sibley, ed., A Companion to First Ladies (2016).
    • “Introduction,” in Sibley, ed., A Companion to Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Hoover (2014).

     

    Book Series

    • “First Ladies and First Partners,” a new series with the University Press of Kansas on interdisciplinary topics around those who are partnered with the president, co-edited with Nancy Beck Young of the University of Houston.