Biography
Kathryn Olivarius is an associate professor of history at Stanford University. Her writing and research on disease, slavery, and capitalism has been featured in multiple publications, including The New York Times and The American Historical Review. Her first book Necropolis: Disease, Power, and Capitalism in the Cotton Kingdom (Harvard University Press, 2022) won multiple prizes, including the 2023 Frederick Jackson Turner Prize from the OAH, the AHA’s Prize in American History, and the Humanities Book of the Year Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. In 2024, she received the Dan David Prize, the world’s largest prize for practitioners studying the human past.
