Research Interests
My main interests pertain to U.S. foreign relations history and the history of U.S. empire in the long nineteenth century, stretching through World War I. I have written on masculinity and policy making around 1898, trade and globavore consumption, and U.S. empire more generally. My most recent book, The Heartland: An American History, takes the American heartland as a starting point for tracking histories of border brokering, human mobility, geographic consciousness, imperial piggybacking, and alliance politics. My current research is on imperialist infrastructure building at the dawn of the big carbon era. Also of interest: histories of militarism and war, colonialism and globalization, agriculture and the environment, gender and sexuality, and entanglements across empires.
Education
Ph.D. Yale University, 1995
B.A. Yale University, 1987
Courses Taught
I teach classes on historical methods and writing, the United States in world context, U.S. foreign relations, the United States in an age of empire, local history in global context, food history, and U.S. nation building through 1877.
Additional Campus Affiliations
Stanley S. Stroup Professor, History
Professor, History
Professor, Gender and Women's Studies
Professor, Center for Global Studies
Highlighted Publications
Hoganson, K. L. (2019). The Heartland: An American History. Penguin Press.
Hoganson, K. L. (2007). Consumers’ Imperium: The Global Production of American Domesticity, 1865-1920. University of North Carolina Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5149/9780807888889_hoganson
Hoganson, K. L. (1998). Fighting for American Manhood: How Gender Politics Provoked the Spanish-American and Philippine-American Wars. Yale University Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt32bht5
Hoganson, K. L. (2017). American Empire at the Turn of the Twentieth Century: A Brief History with Documents. (The Bedford Series in History and Culture). Bedford/St. Martins.
Hoganson, K. L., & Sexton, J. (Eds.) (2020). Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain. (American Encounters/Global Interactions). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007432
Hoganson, K. (2020). SHGAPE Presidential Address: Mind the GAPE: Globality and the Rural Midwest. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 19(2), 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781419000604
Recent Publications
Hoganson, K. (2023). Kristy Nabhan-Warren. Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland. American Historical Review, 128(3), 1467-1468. https://doi.org/10.1093/ahr/rhad249
HOGANSON, KRISTIN. (2021). Inposts of Empire. Diplomatic History, 45(1), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dhaa076
Hoganson, K. L., & Sexton, J. (Eds.) (2020). Crossing Empires: Taking U.S. History into Transimperial Terrain. (American Encounters/Global Interactions). Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/9781478007432
Hoganson, K. (2020). SHGAPE Presidential Address: Mind the GAPE: Globality and the Rural Midwest. Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, 19(2), 176-190. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1537781419000604
Hoganson, K. L. (2019). The Heartland: An American History. Penguin Press.