Biography

Professor Katie McIntyre joined the University of Rhode Island faculty in 2018. She holds joint appointments in Gender and Women’s Studies and the Honors program. She came to URI from Clarion University of Pennsylvania where she served as an Associate Professor of Latin American History and Director of Gender and Women’s Studies. While living in Clarion, she also volunteered for a sexual assault prevention program. Originally from Hyde Park, New York, she earlier worked as a bilingual case manager at a domestic violence agency in the Hudson Valley.

Professor McIntyre specializes in religion, indigenous peoples, and gender in modern Latin America. Her book, Protestantism and State Formation in Post-Revolutionary Oaxaca, examines religious conflict and traditional governance in Native communities of southern Mexico. Her current research project examines missionary women and transnational activism in 1920s and 1930s Latin America. She is looking forward to teaching honors courses such as “Beauty, Body, Power” and mentoring student research projects. A former American Association of University Women fellow, she recently participated in the National Endowment for the Humanities “Women’s Suffrage in the Americas” Summer Institute.

She enjoys listening to live salsa music and discovering new hiking opportunities in the Ocean State.