Katheryn Lawson
Ph.D. Program, American History
Museum Studies Program
University of Delaware
Newark, DE 19716
Biography
Before embarking on my PhD in History with a Museum Studies certificate,
I earned degrees in English, music performance, historical musicology,
and library and information science. Although I’m a born-and-raised
Iowan, my pursuit for knowledge has also led me to French Canada
(Montréal) and now to the mid-Atlantic. During Summer 2018, I created a
music-and-movement program for preschoolers for the Delaware Historical
Society. I currently volunteer at a wildlife rescue and help organize a
group writing program for PhD candidates to finish their dissertations.
Education
University of Iowa, M.A. Library & Information Science, 2017
McGill University, Ph.D. coursework Musicology, 2013–2014
University of Iowa, M.A. Musicology, 2013
University of Iowa, B.M. Music Performance, 2010
University of Iowa, B.A. English, 2010
Research Interests
Broadly, my research investigates twentieth-century American history
through the intersecting lenses of human-animal relations, species,
class, and race. Past publications and presentations have taken me from
California to the British Library (and in between); my research topics
have ranged from the history of cat litter to Girl Scout music,
birdsongs for children, and music concerts in American libraries. In
particular, I am interested in the racial constructions of animal
rights/welfare ideologies and praxis, as well as the boundaries between
humanity, animality, and technology.
Publications
Lawson, Katheryn. “Girl Scout Contrafacta and Symbolic Soldiering in the Great War.” American Music 35, no. 3 (2017): 375–411.
Lawson,
Katheryn. “Children’s Bird Songs, the Rhetoric of Conservation, and
Politics of the Voice in the United States, 1900–1930.” In Childhood and Pethood in Literature and Culture: New Perspectives in Childhood Studies and Animal Studies, edited by Anna Feuerstein and Carmen Nolte-Odhiambo, 199–214. New York: Routledge, 2017.
Lawson, Katheryn. “Preschoolers.” In Youth Cultures in America, edited by Simon Bronner and Cindy Dell Clark. Santa Barbara, CA: Greenwood, 2016.
Lawson, Katheryn. Review. The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Musical Cultures, edited by Patricia
Shehan Campbell and Trevor Wiggins. MusiCultures 42, no. 2 (2015): 106–108.
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