Education

• Ph.D., Rutgers University New Brunswick, 2024
• Master de recherche, Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, 2016
• M.A., Columbia University, 2015
• B.A., University of Texas at Austin, 2014

Biography

Katherine Sinclair received her Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 2024. Her research revolves around the history of the modern French empire and environmental history. Her dissertation focused on the Kerguelen Islands, small, uninhabited islands in the far southern Indian Ocean with a long and complicated history of French sovereignty claims. She is also interested in researching the French rocketry program and the imperial roots and environmental impact of the space program.

Publications

Katherine Mariko Sinclair, "Imperial rockets, colonial geographies: Algeria, Antarctica, Guiana and the French space programme, 1959–74," In Colonialism and Antarctica (Manchester, England: Manchester University Press, 2024), https://doi.org/10.7765/9781526170644.00009