Katherine Pence

Associate Professor History, Baruch College

I am a specialist in German history and the history of women and gender, particularly during the Cold War.  My first book was on the gendered politics of consumer culture in East and West Germany during the 1950s.

Katherine Pence began teaching in the History Department at Baruch College in the Fall of 2002.

Originally from Oakland, California, she got a B.A. in history from Pomona College in Claremont, California.  She then received her Ph.D. in 1999 from the University of Michigan where she studied German gender history with advisors Geoff Eley and Kathleen Canning.  Her courses reflect her areas of specialty in German and European history, history of the Cold War, gender history, the history of consumption, and other themes in cultural history.