Member Spotlight: Kathryn J. McGarr

Where do you work?

University of Wisconsin-Madison, School of Journalism and Mass Communication

Where did you get your Ph.D.?

Princeton University

What’s your current favorite class?

History of U.S. Media. We analyze a primary source together in every lecture, and I love puzzling through sources with students seeing them for the first time.

What’s your current research project?

Just starting out a new project on the revolving door between academia, journalism, and government in U.S. foreign policy and how larger discourses of intervention get framed.

What’s a fun fact about yourself?

I learned to do a headstand during the pandemic.