Kathryn G. Lamontagne
Senior Lecturer, Social Sciences
Teaching Interests
Modern Britain and Ireland; Western European history; public and social history; British Atlantic world (Canada/Maritimes) + sport & identity
Research Interests
Catholic women in Britain; employing genealogy in micro- and cultural history; Lady Byng, hockey, and empire
Publications
Reconsidering Catholic Lay Womanhood: Pious Transgressors in Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century England (London: Routledge, 2023).
“Margaret Fletcher and Christian Feminism: Creating a Catholic Women’s League” In Twentieth-Century Lay Catholic Action and Spirituality in Britain by Maria Power and Jonathan Bush (Cardiff: Catholic Record Society). Forthcoming.
“‘Our Three Selves:’ Radclyffe Hall and Mabel Batten’s Lived Catholicism,” Ecclesial Practices: Journal of Ecclesiology and Ethnography Vol. 9 (4 July 2022), 69–85. https://brill.com/view/journals/ep/9/1/ep.9.issue-1.xml
“The Manchester of America: Transmission of Northern Labor Unionism to Fall River, Massachusetts, 1880-1911” In English Ethnicity and Culture in North America by David Gleeson funded by the Arts & Humanities Research Council, United Kingdom (University of South Carolina Press: 2017).
Selected Conferences
Plenary Address, Blackfriars, Oxford July, 2024
“Depictions of Catholic Womanhood in the British novel from the New Woman to Radclyffe Hall”
Invited, Humanities Forum, Providence College, December 2024
Catholics in Conflict, 1914-1945, University College London, June 15, 2024
“The Catholic Women’s League and the Great War”
Love and Material Culture in the Arts & Humanities, St Mary’s University, Twickenham, The Walpole Centre, 2023
“Material Culture & Religious Devotion for Catholic Women in England”
Northeast Conference on British Studies, Dalhousie, Halifax, October 2023
Chair and Presenter: Roundtable Discussion on Experiencing English History
“Field Visits and Assignments in Boston University’s First Year Program in London”
Family Archives and their Afterlives, 1400-present, University of Birmingham, England with the Leverhulme Trust, July 28, 2023
“The Dis/comfort of the Familial Matriarchive in Practice: The Lived Catholicism of Sarah Pelletier (1884-1964)”
Catholic Record Society, 64th Annual Conference, July 12, 2022, York, England
“A Crucible: Creating the Catholic Women’s League”
Second International Conference on Lived Catholicism. Paradox and Prophecy: Why the Study of Lived Catholicism Matters, 15 November 2021, Durham University
“Gender, Faith, and Class: Lived Catholicism in Massachusetts, 1950-1955”
Catholic Record Society 63rd Annual Conference, 19 July 2021, London
“The Lived Catholicism of Sarah Croskery (1884-1964): Examples of the Centrality of Faith for the Northern Irish Diaspora”
North American Conference on British Studies, November 2020
“Eve’s Breed: Radclyffe Hall, Mabel Batten, and Cultural Catholicism”
New England Historical Association, October 2020
“When the Past is the Classroom: Merging ‘Reacting to the Past’ and Experiential Education”
Other Professional Activity or Awards
Ismael Sensel Award, 2024 (CGS), Outstanding professional achievement
New England Historical Association, Board, 2024-2028
XCC Steering Committee, 2023-25
National Alumni Association Council, Providence College, 2021-2025
Royal Historical Society, Associate Fellow, 2022-
Pardee Center for Global Studies, Boston University, Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), Religion and World Affairs Colloquium, Fellow, 2020-2021, 2021-22
Past member of the Royal Household (Royal Collection), Buckingham Palace