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Kaitlyn Carter

About

Kaitlyn Carter is a second year PhD student working under the supervision of Dr. Jenna Healey and Dr. Jane Errington. She holds a Master of Arts from Western University (2021) and a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Brock University (2020). Her master’s cognate, which she affectionately deemed a “pandemic project,” focused on the relationship between national identity and the ideal of Canadian masculinity through the medium of sport during the 1972 Summit Series. This research has since been featured in the edited collection Reaching the Summit published in 2022. However, her main interest area lies in the history of emotions and its relation to experiences of medical treatment in the nineteenth century. 

Kaitlyn's proposed dissertation focuses on the experience and emotional performance of pain by British soldiers in the Napoleonic Wars and the War of 1812. By placing her research into a transnational context, she intends to examine how emerging nineteenth century ideas of nation, race, and embodied gender shaped the emotional realities of men fighting for and alongside the British Empire. 

Outside of academia, she is a dedicated public historian having worked at both Fort George National Historic Site and McFarland House in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON; the Brown Homestead in St. Catharines, ON; and most recently Fanshawe Pioneer Village in her hometown of London, ON. When not working, you can probably find her reading, baking, or building Lego. 
 
 

Selected Publications

Articles


“Canadian Enforcers,” in Reaching the Summit: Reimagining the Summit Series in the Canadian Cultural Memory, edited by Taylor McKee, 1-31. St. Catharines, ON: JESS Press, 2022. 

“The Best in the Empire’s Cause: Representation in Canadian Newspapers of Hockey Players in the Canadian Military During the First World War,” The Hockey Research Journal 22 (2021): 48-55. 

“Niagara, Interrupted: The Narrative of Conquest at a Dewatered Niagara Falls.” In Jake  Breadman, Rosemary Giles and Kaitlyn Carter. “Recognizing Environmental History When We See It.” Andrew Watson, ed. Network in Canadian History & Environment (blog). 21 April 2021. https://niche-canada.org/2021/04/21/recognizing-environmental-history-w…  

“Maintain the Purity of German Blood!”: Sexual Control in Nazi Occupied Territories, 1939-1945,” The Mirror - Undergraduate History Journal (Spring 2020) 

Awards and recognition

Canadian Graduate Scholarship - Doctoral, 2023

Distinguished Graduating Student Award, Brock University, 2020

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