Katrina Stack is a PhD candidate in the Department of Geography & Sustainability at the University of Tennessee. She is a cultural geographer, and her primary research areas are geographies of memory and Black geographies, specifically public memory, historic preservation, heritage tourism, and critical place naming. Katrina is the research assistant at the University of Tennessee Libraries, studying the archival collection of abstract expressionist painter Beauford Delaney.
Katrina is a research fellow for Tourism RESET (Race, Ethnicity, and Social Equity in Tourism), a multi-university and interdisciplinary research and outreach initiative that seeks to identify, study, and challenge patterns of social inequity in the tourism industry. She holds a MS in Historic Preservation from Eastern Michigan University, with a concentration in heritage interpretation and museum practice. She earned a BA in History from the University of Michigan-Dearborn.