Catherine Ulep

Catherine Ulep was born and raised in Kāneʻohe, Hawai‘i. Her undergraduate degree in Humanities with double concentrations in History and Hawaiian Pacific Studies was completed at the University of Hawai‘i - West O‘ahu. She, then, attended and graduated with a master’s degree from the History Department at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa in 2017. Her master’s thesis, “Women’s Exchanges: The Sex Trade and Cloth In The Early Nineteenth-Century Hawai‘i,” draws on archival sources written in both the English and Hawaiian languages to center on the sex-for-goods trade that developed as sailors from all parts of the globe called on the port city of Honolulu. Catherine’s topics of interest include: gender & sexuality, maritime, and commodities. She is currently working towards a Ph.D. in History at the University of Minnesota.