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Kate McGregor

Kate McGregor is a Ph.D. student in the Department of History at the University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, Canada. Her doctoral research, “There is only one way to be pretty!” Racialized Beauty Norms in the Global German Empire, 1884-1939 focuses on the connection between race, power and beauty in the female spaces of the global German Empire. Her other research interests include the diffusion and maintenance of German traditions in the colonial sphere and the important domestic role that women played. She was a recipient of a Doctoral Fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada in 2020. She is currently writing an article on Christmas in the German Africa colonies, which builds on her Master’s research.