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Kathi Kern
Professor
Director, Center for the Enhancement of Learning & Teaching
Chellgren Professor
Associate Provost of Teaching, Learning, and Academic Innovation

 

Professor Kern earned a Ph.D. in American history at the University of Pennsylvania where she was a Mellon Fellow in the Humanities and a winner of the Dean's Award for distinguished teaching. Since 1989 she has been a member of the History Department at the University of Kentucky as well as an affiliated member of the Gender and Women's Studies Program. At UK, she has won the Chancellor's Award for Outstanding Teaching (1995) and the Alumni Great Teacher Award (2003), and the College of Education’s “Teachers Who Make a Difference” Award (2001, 2004). Professor Kern's research concerns gender, religion and the women's rights movement in nineteenth-century America.

Contact Information
kern@uky.edu
1731 Patterson Office Tower
859-257-3555
Education
Ph.D., Pennsylvania, 1989
Research Interests
  • 19th century US history; gender history; religion
  • *Professor Kern is not currently accepting graduate students.*
Affiliations
  • History
  • CELT