Kathryn Lasdow is a public historian, curator, and cultural communicator whose work sits at the intersection of scholarship, collections, and community engagement. She has produced exhibitions, educational programs, and digital projects at leading institutions across Greater Boston and New York, including the Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center at the Boston Public Library, the Brooklyn Historical Society, and the White House Historical Association.
At Suffolk University, she is Director of Public History and founded the Summer Public History Institute, connecting students to the living practice of history in Boston’s cultural institutions. Her lectures have appeared on C-SPAN’s American History TV and Curiosity University, and her scholarship has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Omohundro Institute, Winterthur Museum, and George Washington’s Mount Vernon. Her book, Wharfed Out: Gentrification and Resistance on the Early American Waterfront, is forthcoming from the University of Virginia Press in October 2026.