Katrina’s research examines British investment in the plantation economies of North America and the Caribbean during the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. She focuses on how wealth accumulated by Scots through plantation agriculture and the transatlantic trade in enslaved people shaped Britain’s cultural, social, and political fabric.

Katrina received her M.A. from Boston College in 2025 and her B.A. in History and Political Science, summa cum laude, from Middlebury College in 2023. During her time at Middlebury, Katrina was named a 2022–2023 Kellogg Fellow and a recipient of the Marci J. Stewart Memorial Award.