Dr. Kate Summer Drabinski

Teaching Professor · Non-Tenure Track

Department of Gender, Women's, and Sexuality Studies Language, Literacy and Culture

College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences

She/Her/Hers/Herself

About

Dr. Drabinski teaches gender and sexuality studies as well as activism and social change and is Director of the Humanities Scholars Program. Her research is in the areas of public and digital humanities.

Research interests

public memory, Baltimore history, museum studies

Teaching interests

civic agency and activism, sexuality, queer theory, theories of embodiment

Education

  • Ph D, Rhetoric — University of California, Berkeley (2006)
    Ancient Bodies, Contemporary Selves: Reading Gender in Late Antique Christian Asceticism
  • BA, Political Science — Barnard College of Columbia University (1997)

Publications

  • BaltimoreUprising2015 2015 Denise D Meringolo, Joe Tropea, Elizabeth Nix, Paula Nicole King, Kathryn Summer Drabinski

Creative Publications

  • BaltimoreUprising2015 2015 Denise D Meringolo, Joe Tropea, Elizabeth Nix, Paula Nicole King, Kathryn Summer Drabinski

Presentations

  • Transactivism at UMBC 2025 Looking in the Mirror Series · CAHSS Dean's Office · Oral Presentation
  • LGBTQ+ 101 2025 Thursday Programs · The Women's Club of Roland Park · Lecture
  • Building reciprocal relationships with teaching faculty to create an empowering classroom 2020 Towson Conference for Academic Libraries (TCAL) · Towson University · Oral Presentation Joanna Kathleen Gadsby (Presenter), Kathryn Summer Drabinski (Presenter)