Kathleen Kete is the Borden W. Painter, Jr., '58/H'95 Professor of European History. She is the author of The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth -Century Paris and Making Way for Genius: The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New  and has edited the volume on the nineteenth century in Bloomsbury's A Cultural History of Animals. With colleagues in Trinity's department of history she has developed a set of courses on the environment including a team-taught survey of 'Planet Earth' which explores the human experience of nature in its historical context, and a companion course 'Possible Earths' which has a pointed focus on our contemporary climate crisis. She also teaches a course on  'The  History of the Alps."  Her new book- The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Benedict de Saussure and Nature's Sensorium--  was published in 2024 by the University of Chicago Press and is indebted both to these collegial forays in environmental history and to her research in the history of France and Francophone Europe. 

• Kete, Kathleen. The Alpine Enlightenment: Horace-Bénédict de Saussure and Nature’s Sensorium. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2024.
  
• Kete, Kathleen. Making Way for Genius: The Aspiring Self in France from the Old Regime to the New. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2012.
• Kete, Kathleen, ed. "A Cultural History of Animals in the Age of Empire (1800-1920). Volume 5 of A Cultural History of Animals. General Editors, Linda Kalof and Brigitte Resl. Oxford: Berg, 2007,2011. 
• Kete, Kathleen. The Beast in the Boudoir: Petkeeping in Nineteenth-Century Paris. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1994, 1995.
• Kete, Kathleen. “Stendhal and the Trials of Ambition in Postrevolutionary France.” French Historical Studies, Special Issue on “Interdisciplinary Perspectives on French Literature and History” 28, 3(Summer 2005).  
• Kete, Kathleen. “Children and Their Pets.” In Encyclopedia of Children and Childhood: In History and Society, edited by Paula S. Fass.  New York: Macmillan Reference, 2004.
• Kete, Kathleen. “Animals and Ideology: The Politics of Animal Protection in Europe.” In Representing Animals, edited by Nigel Rothfels. Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press. 2002.
• Kete, Kathleen. “Animals and Pets.” In Encyclopedia of European Social History: From 1350-2000, edited by Peter N. Stearns. Vol. 5, 507-520. New York: Scribners, 2001.
• Kete, Kathleen. “Animal Rights.” For The Palgrave Dictionary of Transnational History, edited by Akira Iriye and Pierre-Yves Saunier, forthcoming, 2007.
• “Beastly Agendas: An Interview with Kathleen Kete.” With Sina Najafi. Cabinet: A Quarterly Magazine of Art and Culture No.4. Summer 2001.

• Trinity College, President's Grant, Spring Break Paris Course with Jean-Marc Kehres, 2005
• Trinity College. Three-Year Research Expense Grant for travel to Paris, 2001-2003
• Trinity College Faculty Research Expense Grant for travel to Paris, Summer, 1996