Kate Egner

Kate Egner graduated from the College of William and Mary with a M.A. in American History and has a B.A. in Historic Preservation and Classics from the University of Mary Washington. Egner has experience in historic archaeology, architecture, and quantitative and digital history. As a John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library Fellow at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, she has transcribed records of the Williamsburg Public Store (1775-1780) and is continuing her research on the store’s customers, goods, and functions in revolutionary Virginia. A member of the State Historical Records Advisory Board, Virginia Association of Museums, and The Company of Military Historians, she was previously a curator for the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation in Williamsburg, Virginia, and currently a Senior Manager, Digital Content at the American Battlefield Trust.