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Kathleen Casey earned her PhD in History and a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of Rochester in 2010. After teaching at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Honors College, she spent the next decade teaching at Virginia Wesleyan University, a small liberal arts college in Virginia where she served as the Coordinator of the Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program. Dr. Casey now lives in Greenville, South Carolina and is the Director of the Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Program at Furman University, where she also has a joint appointment in the History Department.
Casey is the author of The Things She Carried: A Cultural History of the Purse in America, which was published by Oxford University Press in 2025. Her book has been featured in Literary Hub, Ms. Magazine, Medium, Library Journal, Foreward Reviews, Nasty Women Writers and on several podcasts.
Dr. Casey's first book, The Prettiest Girl on Stage is a Man: Race and Gender Benders in American Vaudeville was published in 2015 by the University of Tennessee Press. She has also published articles in Gender & History, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, the Journal of American Culture and Ms. Magazine.
