Kate Hughes

Katherine “Kate” Hughes is a public historian with a passion for museums and preservation.She is currently completing her Ph.D. in Public History with the Center for Historic Preservation at Middle Tennessee State University; her dissertation is titled Objects, Agency, & Place: Two Centuries of an Early American Frontier Landscape. Kate’s research focuses on the 18th- and 19th-century material culture of the American South, with an emphasis on exploring marginalized and ignored histories through objects, architecture, and place.