Katherine GrierOffice of Advanced Studies Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library Winterthur, DE 19735 (302) 888-4627
Katherine C. Grier (B.A. 1975, Princeton University; M.A. 1980, Cooperstown Graduate Program in Historical Museum Studies; Ph.D. 1988, American Civilization Program, Department of History, University of Delaware) is Professor in the Office of Academic Programs, Winterthur Museum and Country Estate, and Adjunct Professor, Department of History, University of Delaware. She directs the Research Fellowship Program at Winterthur and serves as Executive Editor for Winterthur Portfolio: the Journal of American Material Culture. In the Department of History, she directs the Ph. D. Program in American Civilization, a unit of the larger History graduate program that emphasizes interdisciplinarity and material culture studies.
She is the author most recently of Pets in America: A History (University of North Carolina Press, 2006, and paperback from Harcourt, 2007). Dr. Grier organized an exhibition of the same title with McKissick Museum, University of South Carolina. The show opened in December 2005 and tours through 2008; for an online version of the exhibition see www.petsinamerica.org.
Dr. Grier’s research centers on the history of everyday life in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. She has published on Americans’ relationships with domestic animals, the history of household interiors and furnishings, rituals of dining and American foodways, and American folk art. Her current research includes further work on the history of animal-human relationships in America and material culture pedagogy.
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