Katya Maslakowski is a Raphael Morrison Dorman Memorial Postdoctoral Fellow and a historian of modern Britain, the British Empire, and science and technology studies. She obtained her PhD in history from Northwestern University in 2022. Following her time at the Weatherhead Center, Katya will join the University of Southern Mississippi as Assistant Professor of History in the School of Humanities.

Research interests: Global history; modern Britain; military history; history of science and technology; colonial history; decolonization; counterinsurgency; special forces warfare; and human rights.