Kathryn Olivarius

Kathryn Olivarius (born 1989) is an American historian. Olivarius currently serves as an Associate Professor of History at Stanford University, where she has taught since 2017. Her research covers the 19th century United States, with a focus on the antebellum South, Caribbean, slavery, capitalism, and disease. Prior, she was a postdoctoral fellow the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London.

She received a B.A. in History from Yale University and a Masters and PhD. in U.S. History from the University of Oxford. At Yale, she was a frequent columnist for the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper.