Research Assistant
Stokes Hall South 330-F
Email: katrina.rowe@bc.edu
America and the World
Globalization I
Globalization II
British Economic History
Atlantic History
Slavery and Capitalism
Katrina鈥檚 research examines British investment in the plantation economies of North America and the Caribbean during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She focuses on how wealth accumulated by Scots through plantation agriculture and the transatlantic trade in enslaved people shaped Britain鈥檚 cultural, social, and political fabric.
Katrina received her M.A. from Boston College in 2025 and her B.A. in History and Political Science, summa cum laude, from Middlebury College in 2023. During her time at Middlebury, Katrina was named a 2022鈥2023 Kellogg Fellow and a recipient of the Marci J. Stewart Memorial Award.
Boston College Comhfhios 2026
鈥淭he Double Edged 鈥淪word of Christ鈥: Bishop Smith鈥檚 1837 Mission to the British West Indies鈥
North American Conference on British Studies Denver 2024
鈥淩isky Business: The Ayr Bank and the Atlantic.鈥
Northeast Conference on British Studies Hartford 2024
鈥淩isky Business: The Ayr Bank and the Atlantic.鈥
Recipient of the David Underdown Memorial Prize 2024
Boston College Graduate Student Voices 2023
鈥淲eaving a Colonial State: How the East India Company Supplied England鈥檚 鈥淐alico Craze鈥 and Aggrandized Power in India.鈥