Kathryn Schumaker, a historian of the modern United States, is the Edith Kinney Gaylord Presidential Professor and an associate professor in the Department of Classics and Letters at the University of Oklahoma. She received her PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
A specialist in twentieth century United States history, I published my first book, Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long Twentieth Century, in 2019. This book was funded by grants and fellowships from the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Society for Legal History, and the University of Oklahoma. I am currently at work on two new projects: a book on the history of corporal punishment in American public schools and a history of an interracial family in Mississippi.
As a core faculty member in the Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, I teach upper-level courses on nineteenth and twentieth century legal history as well as broad survey courses in both Constitutional Studies and History.
