Dr. Katie Laplant

Biography

Katie LaPlant is a Lecturer in the School of Information at the University of Michigan. She researches eighteenth-century British women from poor, working, and middling classes, examining their interconnections with crime, social class, and the social world of London. Her work interrogates the relationships between formal and informal social, economic, and legal institutions, with a particular interest in how artificial intelligence can be utilized as a tool in historical research. With deep knowledge of world history, she teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in Information Studies, communications, writing, special information topics, and research methods. Before joining the University of Michigan, Katie spent several years working with scholars in English language teaching as an ELT Editor for the University of Michigan Press and teaching advanced history courses at Lourdes University in Sylvania, Ohio. She has also taught history in the Department of History at The University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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