Dr. Catherine Dollard Affiliation: Faculty Title: Associate Professor (Modern Europe) Email: dollard@denison.edu Phone: 740-587-6238

Catherine Dollard is a historian of modern Europe with particular interest in the history of Imperial Germany.  She teaches courses on modern Europe, modern Germany, gender history, World War I, Eastern Europe, and Myth & Personality in 19th-century Europe. Professor Dollard’s research engages historical questions related to gender, social movements, cultural identity, and the impact of war upon society.  Her first book, The Surplus Woman: Unmarried in Imperial Germany, 1871-1918 (Berghahn, 2009), examines the ways in which anxiety over female marital status served as a central leitmotif in the culture and society of the Kaiserreich.  Dr. Dollard has published articles in German Studies Review, Women's History Review, and Women in Germany.  She is currently working on a comparative analysis of the World War I correspondence of German and American soldiers.  Dr. Dollard has been the recipient of a Chancellor’s Fellowship and a Renewal Grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, a Robert C. Good Fellowship, a Lilly Faculty Foundation Fellowship, and a Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Grant. 

Professor Dollard received her B.A. from Denison in 1988 and her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2000).