Katrina Stack is a cultural geographer focusing on race, public memory, heritage preservation and critical place naming. Her dissertation ​research focuses on under-preserved spaces of the US Civil Rights Movement, ​specifically through historic home preservation and exhibits that represent homespaces.

She is the Graduate Research Assistant for the Beauford Delaney Papers, ​recently acquired by the University of Tennessee special collections. Beauford ​Delaney was a Black American artist from Knoxville, Tennessee who is becoming ​recognized as one of the preeminent abstract expressionist artists from the ​United States.

Katrina MS in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University with a ​concentration in heritage interpretation and museum practice and a BA in ​History from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.

COURSES TAUGHT
Teaching Associate / Instructor of Record
GEOG 101 World Geography

Teaching Assistant
GEOG 101 World Geography
GEOG 121 Human Geography: People/Places
GEOG 206 Sustainability: Reducing our Impact on Planet Earth
GEOG 309 Geographies of Appalachia

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS:
Stack, Katrina and Derek H. Alderman. 2024. “Visiting Contested Terrain: Archiving, Auditing, and Reforming Commemorative Place Names on US Marine Corps Bases.” GeoHumanities, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2024.2380668.

Stack, Katrina, and Derek H. Alderman. 2024. “Tent City/Freedom City Geographies: Teaching Beyond the ‘Canon’ of Civil Rights Movement Memory.” The Geography Teacher 21, no. 1: 50–57. https://doi.org/10.1080/19338341.2024.2315533.

Stack, Katrina and Rebecca Sheehan. “Gettysburg tells the story of more than a battle − the military park shows what national ‘reconciliation’ looked like for decades after the Civil War.” The Conversation. November 17, 2023. https://theconversation.com/gettysburg-tells-the-story-of-more-than-a-battle-the-military-park-shows-what-national-reconciliation-looked-like-for-decades-after-the-civil-war-215788