Wiki Education is excited to welcome Kate Dimitrova to the team as our new Wikipedia Course Instructor!
Kate facilitates online courses in our Scholars & Scientists Program, teaching professionals about the culture, policies, and community of Wikipedia and how to make high-quality contributions. This includes our new Documenting America initiative, focused on improving Wikipedia’s coverage of topics related to U.S. history, civics, democracy, and the 2026 midterm elections. (Explore all upcoming editing courses here.)
Kate is a medieval art historian with a PhD and MA from the University of Pittsburgh. She has taught at the University of San Diego, Wells College, and the New York State College of Ceramics at Alfred University in New York. She has also worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and the J. Paul Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles.
Her publications include a co-edited book with Margaret Goehring, Dressing the Part: Textiles as Propaganda in the Middle Ages (Brepols, 2014) and a forthcoming Festschrift, entitled Tributes to Alison Stones—Reading beyond the Page: Medieval Manuscript Imagination through Word and Image (Harvey Miller, expected 2027). Kate’s research has been supported by a Fulbright Fellowship in Brussels and a Kress Fellowship at the Institut national d’histoire de l’art in Paris.
You might already know Kate from her engagement with Wiki Education programs over the past four years.
In 2022, she launched her first Wikipedia Assignment in her course “The Year 1500: A Global History of Art & Architecture” with support from our Wikipedia Student Program, and has since run several successful assignments. She also participated in our Art History Wiki Scholars course and has presented at conferences to share Wiki Education’s programs with other faculty and subject matter experts.
Based in San Diego, Kate and her husband spend time together hiking trails from the coast to the desert or playing fetch at the park with their beloved labrador retriever, Maisie.
