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Dr. Rossy is Assistant Professor of International History at the Royal Military College of Canada in Kingston, and Deputy Director of Research at the CIDP. She completed her PhD in History from Queen Mary University of London in 2018, where she held a Joseph-Armand Bombardier Canada Doctoral Scholarship before becoming a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at Carleton University from 2019-2022. Dr. Rossy’s expertise lies in the Second World War and early Cold War eras, particularly the history of humanitarianism, human rights, and the laws of armed conflict. She is currently working on a monograph about the evolution of United Nations emergency humanitarianism in all theatres of conflict during the Second World War and its immediate aftermath (1943-48). She is the recipient of a number of awards, including the Alice Wilson Award from the Royal Society of Canada (2019) and the Young Alumna of the Year Award from Concordia University (2020).

Current Interests/Research

• The Second World War and the Early Cold War
• The history of humanitarian aid
• Human rights and the laws of armed conflict

Online:

• Royal Military College of Canada ()
• X: @katherinemrossy
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Select Publications:

Rossy, Katherine and Samantha K. Knapton, Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-War World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA. London: Bloomsbury, 2023

Rossy, Katherine. “The Forgotten ‘R’: UNRRA’s Central Tracing Bureau and the Recovery of Missing Persons in Post-war Germany, 1945-47.” In Relief and Rehabilitation for a Post-War World: Humanitarian Intervention and the UNRRA. Edited by Katherine Rossy and Samantha K. Knapton. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 133-150.

Rossy, Katherine and Samantha K. Knapton. “Introduction: Among the Ruins” In Rehabilitation Among the Ruins: The United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. Edited by Katherine Rossy and Samantha K. Knapton. London: Bloomsbury, 2023. 1-16.

Rossy, Katherine. "The (Bio)Politics of Relief: United Nations’ Food Policy Toward Displaced Children in Post-WWII Europe.” In Child Migration and Biopolitics. Edited by Beatrice Scutaru and Simone Paoli. London: Routledge, 2020.

Rossy, Katherine. "Forgotten Targets: The Case of Kidnapped and Germanised Children in Post-War Europe.” In Forgotten Fronts: The Unknown Conflicts of the Second World War. Edited by Christopher Murray. London: Routledge, 2019. 209-229.

Rossy, Katherine. “Faceless and Stateless: French Occupation Policy toward Women and Children in Postwar Germany (1945-1949).” In Gender, Sexuality, and the Cold War: A Global Perspective, edited by Philip E. Muehlenbeck, Nashville: Vanderbilt University Press, 2017. 15-34.

Rossy, Katherine. “Hiding in Plain Sight: Stolen Children, Reputation & Humanitarian Intervention in Postwar Germany (1945-1949).” Helden. Heroisierenden. Heroismen. E-Journal zu Kulturen des Heroischen. 3.2 (2016): 75-79.

Rossy, Katherine. The Unaccompanied Child: A New Category of ‘Refugee’ in Postwar Germany (1945-1949).” Studi Emigrazione: International Journal of Migration Studies. 199 (2015): 439-450.

Rossy, Katherine. "Ideology in the Warfare State: An Analysis of Attitudes towards Women and Childbirth in Nazi Family Policy, 1933-1939." Policy inAction Journal: Diversity, Politics and Policy Dynamics in the Contemporary Period. 1.1 (2012): 67-97.