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
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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
Creative Publications
Presentations
- Transactivism at UMBC 2025
- LGBTQ+ 101 2025
- Building reciprocal relationships with teaching faculty to create an empowering classroom 2020