Katherine A. Hermes

WORK HISTORY

EDUCATION

ABOUT KATHERINE A. HERMES

Katherine A. Hermes, J.D, Ph.D, became the publisher of Connecticut Explored on July 5, 2022, succeeding Elizabeth Normen. She joined the faculty at CCSU in 1997 and retired in 2022. At CCSU, she served as interim department chair (Fall 2001, 2021) and interim coordinator of Polish Studies (20••••02). She was co-coordinator of the Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies program from 20••••07. She served as CCSU’s History Department chairperson from 2012 to 2018. She has presented papers by invitation at the Harvard International Seminar on the History of the Atlantic World in 1997, and 2005, as well as at the Atlantic History Workshop sponsored by the Seminar in 2005. She was a National Endowment for the Humanities fellow at the American Maritime History workshop at the Munson Institute, Mystic Seaport, in 2010. In 2012 the Max Planck Institute for Legal History in Frankfurt, Germany, invited her to speak at the LOEWE Research Focus workshop on “Justice without the State.” Dr. Hermes is also a fellow of the American Bar Foundation. In 2013, Dr. Hermes was elected as a Fellow to the International Academy on Workplace Bullying for her work as a volunteer to help enact legislation to protect targets of workplace abuse.For 20 years, Professor Hermes has enthusiastically engaged in digital teaching and learning. In 1998, she created a website on Atlantic World history on the old Angelfire network. Since then she has created new sites that are interactive and community-oriented with the help of students in Prof. Stan Kurkovsky\'s computer science classes.