Kristin Hoganson is the Stanley S. Stroup Professor of United States History at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Her research has centered on U.S. foreign relations during the long nineteenth century through World War I. She has written on the role of masculinity in policy making, globavore consumption, environmental footprints, and the heartland myth, which casts the small-town and rural Midwest as the all-American core of the nation.

She is the recent recipient of a 2025 National Endowment for the Humanities and Guggenheim Fellowships for her current research project, “Infrastructural Power: U.S. Empire Building at the Dawn of the Big Carbon Era.” This project traces the history of U.S involvement in the turn of the century Caribbean’s rapid infrastructure development and how U.S. engineers advanced American political, economic, and military interests.