Katie Posey

Katie Posey is a PhD student in Antisemitism Studies at Gratz College. Her current research centres on the intersection of digital media, theological orientation, and antisemitic attitudes within Christian communities, with particular attention to how online spaces shape belief and identity among conservative Christian men.

She holds a PhD in Curriculum and Instruction from The Pennsylvania State University, with a specialisation in Children’s Literature, an MA in Children’s Literature from Roehampton University, London, and an MA in Holocaust and Genocide Studies from Gratz College. In 2019, she presented a workshop titled “Nurturing the Spirituality of Learners Through Holocaust Education” at the Collaborative for Spirituality in Education conference at Teachers College, Columbia University, a moment that brought together her research in children’s spiritual formation and her conviction that Holocaust education, rightly understood, is itself an act of spiritual and moral formation.

She is the founder and CEO of Ourstory Connections, a California-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit developing Holocaust education and antisemitism awareness programming for schools, universities, and religious communities. She develops and teaches professional development courses for credentialed K–12 teachers through Fresno Pacific University, including courses on Holocaust Literature, Jane Austen, and World War II.

Her academic interests include antisemitism in digital and religious spaces, video games as both a vector for radicalization and a site of counter-intervention, the departure from authentic Christian faith that has historically enabled antisemitism, the Jewish roots of Christianity and their recovery as a resource for Jewish-Christian relations, and the role of Holocaust education in spiritual and moral formation