Katherine C. Grier

• Professor
• Direcotor, Ph.D. Program in American Civilization
  
• E-mail: kcgrier@udel.edu
• Phone: (302) 831-2388
• Office: 208 Munroe Hall
  
  
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Katherine C. (Kasey) Grier is professor of material culture studies in
the University of Delaware's Winterthur Program in Early American
Culture. She directs the Research Fellowship Program at the Winterthur
Museum and Country Estate and also serves as executive editor of
Winterthur Portfolio, the journal of American material culture studies
published by the University of Chicago Press. Dr. Grier also holds a
joint appointment with the Department of History, where she teaches
courses on material culture studies and serves as administrator for the
department's graduate program in the History of American Civilization.
Her research centers on the history of everyday life in the United
States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Recently Dr. Grier's
scholarship has focused on relationships between human beings and
animals; she is the author of Pets in America: a History (University of
North Carolina Press, 2006). She also curated a traveling exhibition
titled "Pets in America: The Story of Our Lives with Animals At Home,"
which will tour the United States through 2007.