DEPARTMENT OF HISTORY

Biography

Katherine "Katie" Coble is a social historian of modern Europe and a Mellon Cluster Fellow in Jewish Studies. Her research broadly examines the intersection of violence, gender, and everyday life under Nazism. She is especially interested in perpetrator studies, sensory history, and Holocaust memory.

Katie earned her BA in History and Classical Society at Franklin & Marshall College and her MSc in Contemporary History at the University of Edinburgh. Her masters dissertation on female SS guards and "euthanasia" nurses was awarded the Phi Alpha Theta George P. Hammond Prize. She was a 2026 Summer Graduate Research Fellow at the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.

Before coming to Northwestern, Katie worked in the study abroad office at the University of Edinburgh. In her spare time she enjoys cooking and reading literary fiction.