Kathryn Schumaker, a historian of the modern United States, is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the United States Studies Centre at the University of Sydney. She received her PhD in History from the University of Chicago.
My scholarship is focused on intersections of race, gender, and American law. My forthcoming book, Tangled Fortunes: The Hidden History of Interracial Marriage in the Segregated South (Basic Books, January 2025), explores how interracial families survived in the hostile political, social, and legal environment of Jim Crow Mississippi. I am also the author of Troublemakers: Students’ Rights and Racial Justice in the Long Twentieth Century (NYU Press, 2019). I have received grants and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Academy of Education and Spencer Foundation, the American Historical Association, and the American Society for Legal History.
I teach in American Studies at the University of Sydney. My subjects examine social movements, sex and the law, and American history and literature.
