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Katherine Rossy

Deputy Director (Research)

History Dept (RMC)

Katherine.rossy@rmc-cmr.ca

(613) 541-6000 ext 6085

Robert Sutherland Hall, Rm 409

Affiliation

Dr. Rossy is Assistant Professor of International History at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, and Deputy Director of Research at the CIDP. She completed her PhD in History from Queen Mary University of London in 2018, where she held a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship before becoming a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University from 2019-2022. Dr. Rossy鈥檚 expertise lies in the Second World War and early Cold War eras, particularly the history of humanitarianism, human rights, and the laws of armed conflict. She is currently working on a monograph about the evolution of United Nations emergency humanitarianism in all theatres of conflict during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath (1943-48). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada (2019) and the Young Alumna of the Year Award from Concordia University (2020).

Current Interests/Research

  • The Second World War and the Early Cold War
  • The history of humanitarian aid
  • Human rights and the laws of armed conflict

Online:

  • Royal Military College of Canada ()
  • X: @katherinemrossy
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Select Publications:

Rossy, Katherine and Samantha K. Knapton, Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-War World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA. London: Bloomsbury, 2023

Rossy, Katherine. 鈥淭he Forgotten 鈥楻鈥: UNRRA鈥檚 Central Tracing Bureau and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Post-war Germany, 1945-47.鈥 In Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-War World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA. Edited by Katherine Rossy and Samantha K. Knapton. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 133-150.

Rossy, Katherine and Samantha K. Knapton. 鈥淚ntroduction: Among the Ruins鈥 In Rehabilitation Among the Ruins: The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Edited by Katherine Rossy and Samantha K. Knapton. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 1-16.

Rossy, Katherine. "The (Bio)Politics of Relief: United Nations鈥 Food Policy Toward Displaced Children in Post-WWII Europe.鈥 In Child Migration and Biopolitics. Edited by Beatrice Scutaru and Simone Paoli. London: Routledge, 2020.

Rossy, Katherine. "Forgotten Targets: The Case of Kidnapped and Germanised Children in Post-War Europe.鈥 In Forgotten Fronts: The Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War. Edited by Christopher Murray. London: Routledge, 2019. 209-229.

Rossy, Katherine. 鈥淔aceless and Stateless: French Occupation Policy toward Women and Children in Postwar Germany (1945-1949).鈥 In Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017. 15-34.

Rossy, Katherine. 鈥淗iding in Plain Sight: Stolen Children, Reputation & Humanitarian Intervention in Postwar Germany (1945-1949).鈥 Helden. Heroisierenden. Heroismen. E-Journal zu Kulturen des Heroischen. 3.2 (2016): 75-79.

Rossy, Katherine. The Unaccompanied Child: A New Category of 鈥楻efugee鈥 in Postwar Germany (1945-1949).鈥 Studi Emigrazione: International Journal of Migration Studies. 199 (2015): 439-450.

Rossy, Katherine. "Ideology in the Warfare State: An Analysis of Attitudes towards Women and Childbirth in Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1939." Policy inAction Journal: Diversity, Politics and Policy Dynamics in the Contemporary Period. 1.1 (2012): 67-97.