Author & researcher based in the Highlands of Scotland.
Kat Hill’s work focuses on questions of landscape, people, and heritage in various contexts from the bothies of the Scottish Highlands to non-conformist religious communities such as Mennonites in Europe, America and the Global South.
She is the author of the prize-winning book, Baptism, Brotherhood, and Belief: Anabaptism and Lutheranism, 1525-1585 (Oxford University Press, 2015) and her second book, Bothy: In Search of Simple Shelter was released with William Collins in Spring 2024. It was shortlisted for the 2024 Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing.
She is currently working on her third book entitled Endlings: Last Things, Extinctions and Endtimes.
Kat has a PhD from the University of Oxford (2011) and she has received numerous grants and fellowships, including awards from the British Academy, the Leverhulme Trust, the IAS Princeton and IASH at Edinburgh University. She lectured at Oxford, UEA and Birkbeck College for ten years before leaving London for a life in Scotland to write and research.
She is a Brazilian Jiu Jitsu black belt and a European champion.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
BA Modern History, University of Oxford, 1st Class
MSt Historical Research, University of Oxford, Distinction
MA Environmental Humanities, Bath Spa University, Distinction
PhD History, University of Oxford
Residencies/Fellowships/Awards
Pastoral Twilight Artistic Residency
AS Princeton Fellowship
Wainwright Prize Shortlist
IASH Environmental Humanities Fellowship, University of Edinburgh
Gerald Strauss Book Prize
Leverhulme Research Leadership Award
Award for Excellence, University of Oxford
Jowett Exhibition, University of Oxford
Jane Willis Kirkaldy History of Science Prize, University of Oxford
Fletcher Scholarship, University of Oxford
Grants
Plett Foundation Grant
AHRC Doctoral Award, Masters Award and Cultural Engagement Fellowship
British Academy Post-Doctoral Award
British Academy/Leverhulme Small Grants x2
Yale Humboldt Early Modern Global History Travel Grant
TORCH (The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities)
DAAD German Academic Exchange Scholarship
Substack
