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Dr Kate Ballantyne

Humanities and Social Science

Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies

Email: K.J.Ballantyne@ljmu.ac.uk

Telephone: 0151 904 1833

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Dr Kate Ballantyne is a Senior Lecturer in American History at LJMU. Her research focuses are student activism, free speech, the US South, the long Black freedom struggle, and 1960s social movements. Her first book, Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee, was published with UGA Press in 2024. She is currently writing a book on contestations of free speech and student power in the 1960s and 1970s US South.

Kate holds PhD and MPhil degrees in History from the University of Cambridge and a BA with Honours from the University of South Carolina. Prior to coming to LJMU, Kate worked at the University of Oxford as a Departmental Lecturer, the University of Edinburgh as a Career Development Fellow on a postdoctoral fellowship, and the University of Birmingham as a Teaching Fellow. She is Secretary for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), a member of the Steering Committee for History UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Degrees

2017, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, PhD in History
2013, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, MPhil in Historical Studies
2012, University of South Carolina, United States, BA in History with a Minor in Southern Studies

Certifications

2019, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)

Academic appointments

Senior Lecturer in American History, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Departmental Lecturer in Modern History, History, University of Oxford, 2021 - 2021
Career Development Fellow in Contemporary History, History, University of Edinburgh, 2019 - 2020
Teaching Fellow in U.S. History, History, University of Birmingham, 2018 - 2019
Research Fellow of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University, 2018 - 2020

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