Catherine (Kate) Perl

Graduate Fellow, Spring 2023

Catherine (Kate) Perl, a PhD candidate in history, received the Dominica and Frank Annese dissertation fellowship for 2022-23. She studies primarily Muslim and Christian Iberia from the 11th to the mid-12th century – a highly decentralized period in the peninsula’s history. Her dissertation investigates how and why intellectual and artistic work took place, and what the products of cultural patronage illuminate about constructions of historical narratives, political theology, and relationships between creative work and power. For the past several years, she has co-organized the “Religion and Pluralism in the Medieval Mediterranean” working group through the Medieval Institute.

Kate is also committed to prison education and has spent a great deal of her time at ND working with the Moreau College Initiative at the Westville Correctional Facility.