Kathryn Dudley

Kathryn Dudley is Professor of American Studies and Anthropology. Her published work includes The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America (1994) and Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland (2000). She is the recipient of the 2000 Margaret Mead Award for anthropological research and writing that reaches a broadly concerned public. Her current work examines the cultural history of guitar–making in North America since the 1960s. She teaches courses on American communities, rural and urban market economies, music cultures, and ethnographic representation.

Click here for more information.