Katherine Aaslestad

Katherine Barbara Aaslestad (May 30, 1961 – April 24, 2021) was an American scholar. She was a professor of history at West Virginia University in the Department of History from 1997 to her death. Aaslestad died on 24 April 2021, aged 59.

Awards and honors She won the Caperton Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Writing and the Benedum Distinguished Scholar Award as well as outstanding teaching awards from the WVU Foundation, the Eberly College and the Honors College.

Selected works The transformation of civic identity and local patriotism in Hamburg : 1790 to 1815, 1997 Material identities : tradition, gender, and consumption in early nineteenth century Hamburg, 1998 Place and Politics: Local Identity, Civic Culture, and German Nationalism in North Germany during the Revolutionary Era (Brill, 2005) Historica's women: 1000 years of women in history (Millennium House, 2007) Revisiting Napoleon's Continental System: Local, Regional and European Experiences (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)