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Katharine (Kate) Frederick is an Assistant Professor at Utrecht University specializing in industrial development in sub-Saharan Africa during the late pre-colonial and early post-colonial eras. She obtained her PhD in economic history in 2018 from Wageningen University, Netherlands. In 2022, her manuscript titled 'Deindustrialization in East Africa: Textile Production in the Era of Globalization and Colonization 1830-1940' was awarded the triannual International Economic History Association Dissertation Prize at the World Economic History Congress. The dissertation critiques works written between 2017 and 2022 in the 20th and 21st centuries. In 2018, she was affiliated with the European Research Council project 'Race to the Bottom? Family Labour, Household Livelihood, Consumption, and Relocation in Global Cotton Manufacturing, ca. 1750-1990.' Furthermore, she co-founded the Frontiers in African Economic History, a widely read research blog of the African Economic History Network. Beginning in 2023, she will serve as the Program Coordinator for the Research Master’s program in History at Utrecht University.
Department of Psychology