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Kathryn Dudley is a Professor of Anthropology and American Studies at Yale University, with a transdisciplinary focus on ethnography as a mode of inquiry bridging queer theory, black, indigenous, and ethnic studies, environmental studies, and public humanities. Her research explores embodied knowledge and social trauma under global capitalism, including studies on deindustrialization, family farm agriculture loss, and artisanal craftsmanship.
Education: Ph.D. in Anthropology from Columbia University (1991). Key publications include The End of the Line: Lost Jobs, New Lives in Postindustrial America, Debt and Dispossession: Farm Loss in America’s Heartland, and Guitar Makers: The Endurance of Artisanal Values in North America. She directed the documentary film Black Land Loss examining African American farmers' legal battles against the USDA.
Awarded the Margaret Mead Award for writing that reaches broad public audiences, her current research addresses federal policy impacts on wild horses in U.S. public lands amid climate change and industrial extraction.
