Katherine A. Hermes

Katherine A. Hermes received her B.A. in history from the University of California-Irvine in 1985, M.A. (1986) and M. Phil (1987) from Yale University, J.D. from Duke University School of Law in 1992 and Ph.D. from Yale in 1995. She joined the faculty at CCSU in 1997 and has been co-coordinator of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program as well as chair of the History Department. She teaches courses in early American history, focusing on the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Native American history and legal history. She has presented papers by invitation at the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World in 1997, 2000, and 2005, as well as at the Atlantic Legal History Workshop sponsored by the Seminar in 2005. In 2012 the Max Planck Institute for Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, invited her to speak at the LOEWE Research Focus workshop on “Justice without the State.”

In 2013, Dr. Hermes was elected as a Fellow to the International Academy on Workplace Bullying for her work as a volunteer to help targets of workplace abuse.