Katherine Sharp Landdeck

Katherine Sharp Landdeck is a professor of history at Texas Woman's University, the home of the WASP archives. A Normandy Scholar, a Guggenheim Fellow at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, and a graduate of the University of Tennessee, where she earned her PhD, Landdeck has received numerous awards for her work on the WASP and has appeared as an expert on NPR's "Morning Edition," PBS, the Discovery Channel and the History Channel. She works with documentary films and popular history television series and her work has been published in The Washington Post, The Atlantic, and HuffPost, as well as in numerous academic and aviation publications. Landdeck is a licensed pilot who flies whenever she can.