Dr Kate Ballantyne
Humanities and Social Science
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: K.J.Ballantyne@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 1833
Dr Kate Ballantyne is a Senior Lecturer in American History at LJMU. Her research focuses are student activism, free speech, the US South, the long Black freedom struggle, and 1960s social movements. Her first book, Radical Volunteers: Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee, was published with UGA Press in 2024. She is currently writing a book on contestations of free speech and student power in the 1960s and 1970s US South.
Kate holds PhD and MPhil degrees in History from the University of Cambridge and a BA with Honours from the University of South Carolina. Prior to coming to LJMU, Kate worked at the University of Oxford as a Departmental Lecturer, the University of Edinburgh as a Career Development Fellow on a postdoctoral fellowship, and the University of Birmingham as a Teaching Fellow. She is Secretary for the British Association for American Studies (BAAS), a member of the Steering Committee for History UK, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Degrees
2017, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, PhD in History
2013, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, MPhil in Historical Studies
2012, University of South Carolina, United States, BA in History with a Minor in Southern Studies
Certifications
2019, Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom, Fellowship with the Higher Education Academy (FHEA)
Academic appointments
Senior Lecturer in American History, Liverpool John Moores University, 2022 - present
Departmental Lecturer in Modern History, History, University of Oxford, 2021 - 2021
Career Development Fellow in Contemporary History, History, University of Edinburgh, 2019 - 2020
Teaching Fellow in U.S. History, History, University of Birmingham, 2018 - 2019
Research Fellow of the David Bruce Centre for American Studies, Keele University, 2018 - 2020
Books (authored)
Ballantyne KJ. 2024. Radical Volunteers Dissent, Desegregation, and Student Power in Tennessee University of Georgia Press 9780820366456 Publisher Url Public Url
Journal article
Ballantyne K. 2023. The Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Modern History Review, 25 :22-24 Publisher Url Public Url
Ballantyne K. 2020. We Might 'Overcome Someday': West Tennessee's Rural Freedom Movement Journal of Contemporary History, 56 :117-141 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ballantyne K. 2020. Saints in the Struggle: Church of God in Christ Activists in the Memphis Civil Rights Movement, 1954–1968 by Jonathan Chism Journal of Southern History, 86 :751-752 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
BALLANTYNE K. 2019. J. Michael Butler, Beyond Integration: The Black Freedom Struggle in Escambia County, Florida, 1960–1980 (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2016, $32.95). Pp. 356.
Ballantyne K. 2019. “Students Are [Not] Slaves”: 1960s Student Power Debates in Tennessee Journal of American Studies, 54 :295-322 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Book review
Ballantyne K. 2022. Education in black and white: Myles Horton and the Highlander center's vision for social justice Labor History, DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Ballantyne K. 2020. Traci Parker, Department Stores and the Black Freedom Movement: Workers, Consumers, and Civil Rights from the 1930s to the 1980s Reviews in History, DOI
Ballantyne K. 2018. Anne Stefani, Unlikely Dissenters: White Southern Women in the Fight for Racial Justice, 1920-1970 History: the journal of the Historical Association, 103 :186-187 DOI Publisher Url
Chapters
Ballantyne K. 2018. 'Chicago Seven' Hall MK. Opposition to War: An Encyclopedia of United States Peace and Antiwar Movements :130-131 ABC-CLIO, LLC. Santa Barbara, California 9781440845192
Conference publication
Ballantyne K. 2013. Behind The Gates: An Interracial Perspective of Black and White Youth Memories of Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 1950s to 1970s The proceedings of the South Carolina Historical Association. South Carolina Historical Association, South Carolina Historical Association Annual Meeting Publisher Url Public Url
Membership of professional bodies:
Secretary, British Association for American Studies, https://baas.ac.uk/. 2023