Kathryn G. Lamontagne
Lecturer, Social Sciences
Teaching Interests
Modern Britain and Ireland; gender; Western European history; immigration; public and social history; British Atlantic world
Research Interests
Catholic women in Britain; employing genealogy in micro- and cultural history; identity in immigration
Publications
Pious Transgressors: Re-Considering Catholic Lay Womanhood in Edwardian Britain.Book monograph under contract with Routledge UK.
“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
“POV: The Queen’s Jubilee is Cause for Celebration,” BU Today, June 3, 2022. https://www.bu.edu/articles/2022/pov-the-queens-platinum-jubilee-is-cause-for-celebration/
“Review of Catholic Social Teaching and Theologies of Peace in Northern Ireland: Cardinal Cahal Daly and the Pursuit of the Peaceable Kingdom,” The Journal of Social Encounters: Vol. 5: Iss. 2, 2022, p. 128-130. https://digitalcommons.csbsju.edu/social_encounters/vol5/iss2/13
Book monograph in preparation: Pious Transgressors: Catholic New Womanhood in Britain, c. 1890-1920
“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).
“The Dynamic Classroom: Using ‘Reacting to the Past’ in Active Interdisciplinary Courses” Impact: The Journal of the Center for Interdisciplinary Teaching & Learning Summer 2020 (Boston University).
Forthcoming: “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).
Selected Conferences
Fellow 2020-2021, Pardee Center for Global Studies (BU), Institute for Culture, Religion, and World Affairs (CURA), Religion and World Affairs Colloquium
North American Conference on British Studies, November 2020
“Eve’s Breed: Radclyffe Hall, Mabel Batten, and Cultural Catholicism”
Northeast Conference on British Studies, October 2020
“St. John and Sex: Radclyffe Hall’s Conservative Catholicism”
New England Historical Association, October 2020
“When the Past is the Classroom: Merging ‘Reacting to the Past’ and Experiential Education”
Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, February 2020
CGS SGA “Out of Office, Office Hours” Roundtable: “New Women, Flappers, and ‘VSCO’ girls: Labeling the Female Body”
New England Historical Association, October 2019
“Mary in the World: Finding the ‘New’ Catholic Woman in Britain, 1880-1920”
Other Professional Activity or Awards
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
Royal Historical Society, Associate Fellow
Reacting to the Past Faculty Fellowship, Roger Williams University
President, Providence College South Coast Alumni Club (Past President, London Club)
Past member of the Royal Household (Royal Collection), Buckingham Palace
Teaching Fellowship, Scholar Abroad, Boston University (BU London)
Teaching Fellow of the Year, History, Boston University, 2008
Ault Fellowship, Boston University,