Katherine Hite

Katherine Hite is Professor of Political Science on the Frederick Ferris Thompson Chair at Vassar College in Poughkeepsie, New York. She is the author of Politics and the Art of Commemoration: Memorials to Struggle in Latin America and Spain (Routledge, 2012; Spanish transla­tion Mandrágora, 2014) and When the Romance Ended: Leaders of the Chil­ean Left, 1968–1998 (Columbia, 2000), as well as several publications on the politics of memory, memorials, and memorial museums across the Americas, including Texas, where she grew up. Hite is active in her Poughkeepsie, New York, community, including as cochair of “Celebrating the African Spirit.”