Kristin Hoganson

Kristin Hoganson is a professor of history at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She specializes in the history of the United States in world context, cultures of U.S. imperialism, and transnational history. She is the author of Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars (1998) and Consumers' Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920 (2007). Her current research on the U.S. heartland explores the politics of locality as they unfolded globally. She is particularly concerned with the relations between security and empire.