Dr. Katy Hull is an Assistant Professor of Modern Gender History in the American Studies department. She is interested in twentieth century US history, civil rights, social movements, women’s and gender history, masculinity, and the history of emotions. In the summer of 2023, she was a fellow at the Global Sentimentality Project at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg. She is currently a member of the board of the Netherlands American Studies Association and the coordinator of the America in the World research group in the Amsterdam School of Historical Studies. Katy's first book was The Machine Has a Soul: American Sympathy with Italian Fascism (Princeton University Press, 2021). Her current research project investigates the construction of emotions in New Left activist autobiographies. In addition to her PhD in US History (Georgetown University, 2018), she holds an MA in human rights, and an MA in international relations and international economics (Johns Hopkins, SAIS). From 2005 until 2010 she worked for the World Bank in Washington, DC.