Catherine Clinton is Professor of History at Queen's University Belfast. She specializes in American History, with an emphasis on the history of the South. Clinton grew up in Kansas City, Missouri, where she graduated from the Sunset Hill School in 1969. Thereafter, she studied sociology and African-American History at Harvard University, graduating in 1973. Clinton received her Ph.D from Princeton University, after completing her dissertation on under the direction of James M. McPherson. She has held academic positions at numerous institutions of higher learning, including Union College, Harvard University - Du Bois Institute, Afro-American Studies Dept., History Dept., Warren Center Affiliate, Brandeis University, and Brown University, Wofford, The University of Richmond, Benghazi, Wesleyan University, Baruch College of the City University of New York and the Citadel. She currently holds a chair in U.S.history at Queen's University Belfast, a post she has held since 2006. Clinton is a prolific scholar and has held a variety of academic appointments. 

April 5th, 1952 in Seattle (Age 72)