AFFILIATIONS:

The History Watch Project

The History Watch Project is directed by its founder, Dr. Audra Diptee. The History Watch Project undertakes research and educational initiatives which employ the methods of Critical Applied History to contemporary social issues. Its work emphasizes matters related to the Global South and addresses matters related to the marginalization of people elsewhere in the world.

Catherine has been a contributing member of the History Watch Project since 2014 and joined the Board of Directors in 2020.

Culinaria Research Centre

The Culinaria Research Centre, operated out of the University of Toronto Scarborough, is a multidisciplinary center that incorporates research as well as undergraduate and local community engagement. Culinaria projects and events engage with the major questions in the field of food studies including: the place of food in cultural identity and expression; the relationship between food, diaspora, and inter-ethnic/inter-cultural contact in Canada and beyond; commodity production and labor, from slavery to the age of empire to the present-day; the links between food systems, health, gender, and family.

Catherine held a Doctoral Fellowship at the Culinaria Research Centre from 2017-2018 and continues to support the centre's work on food, culture, and society.

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:

Historians on Housewives

Historians on Housewives is directed by Kacey Calahane, Dr. Jessica Millward, and Max Speare. ​Historians on Housewives brings together scholars from interdisciplinary backgrounds to explain The Housewives phenomenon, and to explore how issues of race, gender, class, and sexuality can better shape understandings of American and world history. This project utilizes a popular archive (Bravo programming) to connect historical issues to the present - because academics watch Bravo too!

​Catherine is "Bravo-demic" and will appear on an episode of the Historians on Housewives podcast in 2020.