Katie Lantz

Katie Lantz earned her Ph.D. in American History at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville, VA in 2020. She studied late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century North America, with a focus on Native-settler relations and the creation of boundaries between nations and cultures. Her dissertation, "Possessing Knowledge: Race and Culture in the Upper Great Lakes, 1790-1840," examined the Great Lakes borderlands during a pivotal period in the expansion of American colonialism and the containment of the British Empire in Canada. Natives and Americans offered competing narratives of Native persistence, land possession, and the future of the continent.

As a public historian, she researches Native American history for federal and Native clients. As adjunct faculty at PNCA, she teaches classes on Native histories and Native-settler relations. These courses use Indigenous art, fiction, and essays to help students explore the diversity of Native perspectives on their histories and cultures.