History
Catherine Dollard teaches courses on modern Europe, modern Germany, European women, World
War I, 20th-century Eastern Europe, and Myth & Personality in 19th-century Europe.
Catherine's main research interest lies in the history of imperial Germany. Her recently
completed manuscript, The Surplus Woman: Constructions of the Unwed in Imperial Germany,
1871-1918, examines the ways in which anxiety over female marital status served as a
central leitmotif in the culture and society of the German empire. She has published
articles on the topic of German women's history in German Studies Review, Women's
History Review, and Women in Germany. She received a Lilly Faculty Fellowship in the
spring of 2006 to explore the history of female titles (Fräulein and Frau) in the
German Second Reich. Catherine received her Ph.D. in 2000 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
her B.A. from Denison in 1988.
