Katherine Godfrey
108 Weaver Building
University Park, PA 16802
Education:
PhD, The Pennsylvania State University, History, 2022
Diplomado en Lengua Muysca (Certificate in Indigenous Muysca Language), Instituto Caro y Cuervo, Bogotá, Colombia, 2020
MLA, University of South Florida - St. Petersburg, Florida Studies, 2016
BA, University of North Florida, History, 2013
Biography:
Katherine Godfrey is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Department of History. She earned her PhD from Penn State University in fall 2022. Her research focuses on interactions between Indigenous peoples and European empires in the Americas, with specific expertise in Northern South America and the New Kingdom of Granada (present-day Colombia). Her book manuscript, tentatively titled Matrilineal Routes: Indigenous Kinship Networks, Gender, and Mobility in Early Modern Colombia, explores the relationship between kinship, gender, and mobility in the early modern world and their impact on ethnogenesis, trade, and institutions such as the encomienda and land tenure. She has extensive paleography and archival experience.
Publications:
“House of Trade: Mestizo Children, Merchant Networks, and Sixteenth-Century Empire Building in Early Modern Colombia,” Journal of Iberian and Latin American Studies 28, no. 3 (2022): 403-420.
DOI: 10.1080/14701847.2022.2140955
Awards and Services:
2019 Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Fellowship, Colombia & Spain (July 2021 – June 2022)
2019 The Doucet Scholarship, The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History (January – March 2020)
2019 Newberry Consortium in American Indian Studies Graduate Student Fellowship, Newberry Institute for Research and Education (fall 2019)
2018 Mark and Lucy M. Stitzer Program Support Endowment in History, The Pennsylvania State University
2017 Latin American Studies Research and Travel Award, The Pennsylvania State University
2017 Mark and Lucy M. Stitzer Seed Grant, The Pennsylvania State University
2016 Graduate Scholar Award, The Pennsylvania State University
2014 The Hope and Bob Black Scholar, University of South Florida – St. Petersburg
Recent Courses:
HIST 425: History of the Incas
HIST 211/AFAM 211: Slavery and Freedom in the Black Atlantic
HIST 10: World History to 1500