Kristin L. Hoganson is an American historian specializing in the history of the United States. She teaches at the

University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Universit ...

Early life

Hoganson was educated at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

receiving her B.A. in 1987 and Ph.D. In 1995.

Career

Hoganson is a professor of history at the

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University ...

, where she teaches on American empire, the United States in the world, and food in global history. Hoganson's article, “Meat in the Middle: Converging Borderlands in the U.S. Midwest, 1865-1900,” published in the ''

Journal of American History ''The Journal of American History'' is the official academic journal of the Organization of American Historians. It covers the field of American history and was established in 1914 as the ''Mississippi Valley Historical Review'', the official jo ...

'', won the

Ray Allen Billington Prize The Ray Allen Billington Prize is given biennially by the Organization of American Historians (OAH) for the best book about American frontier history. The "American frontier" includes all of North and South America, all post-1492 pioneer experiences ...

from the

Western History Association The Western History Association (WHA), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was founded in 1961 at Santa Fe, New Mexico by Ray Allen Billington et al. Included in the field of study are the American West and western Canada. The Western History ...

for the best article in Western History and the Wayne D. Rasmussen Prize from the Agricultural History Society. She is president of the

Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations The Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations (SHAFR) was founded in order to “promote excellence in research and teaching of American foreign relations history and to facilitate professional collaboration among scholars and students ...

Books

*''The Heartland: An American History'' (New York: Penguin Press, 2019). *''Consumers’ Imperium:The Global Production of American Domesticity'', 1865–1920 (University of North Carolina Press, 2007). *''Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars'' (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1998). *''American Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century'' (Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2016).

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hoganson, Kristin 21st-century American historians Yale University alumni American women historians University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty Year of birth missing (living people) Place of birth missing (living people) Living people Historians of the United States 21st-century American women Presidents of the Society for Historians of American Foreign Relations