Kathryn Marie Dudley (Ph.D., Columbia 1991) is Professor of Anthropology and American Studies. She is an anthropologist of American culture, recognized for her work on economic dislocation, the globalization of industry, and social trauma. She is the author of The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (1994) and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland (2000), ethnographic community studies of deindustrialization and the farm crisis, respectively. She is co-editor with Mary Margaret Overbey of Anthropology and Middle Class Working Families: A Future Research Agenda (2000) and has made a video documentary of land loss in the rural South, Black Farmers and the Case of Pigford v. Glickman (2004). Her current research examines the renaissance of artisanal craft production in North America since the 1960s, focusing on builders of handmade acoustic guitars. Dudley is the recipient of the 1995 Harry Chapin Media Award for Best Book, the 1995 Wisconsin Library Association Literary Award for Best Book, and the 2000 Margaret Mead Award of the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology for anthropological work that reaches a broadly concerned public. She teaches courses on market economies, ethnographic writing, and interdisciplinary approaches to community studies. She is currently the Director of Graduate Studies in the American Studies Program.

Mailing address:
American Studies Program
Yale University
P.O. Box 208236
New Haven, CT 05620-8236

Office address:
Hall of Graduate Studies
320 York Street, Room 230
Tel: (203) 432-1186 Fax: (203) 432-4493
Email: kathryn.dudley@yale.edu

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