Kathleen Powers Conti

Kathleen Powers Conti is an assistant professor of history at Florida State University who works as a public historian and preservationist. Her research focuses on preserving and interpreting sites of "difficult heritage," such as places of trauma, contested history, or atrocities. She was named a 2026 MacDowell Fellow and is writing a book on race, memory, and historic preservation in the American South, titled Fingerprints in Brick, which is not yet published.