Curriculum Vitae

Education   

Ph.D.   Applied Anthropology, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2013

M.A.    Anthropology and Education, Teachers College, Columbia University, 2009                            

B.A.    Anthropology (Summa Cum Laude), Boston University, 2004

Professional appointments

Present Director of Foundation and Corporate Relations, Carthage College

2017-2019       Visiting Assistant Professor of History and Classics, Carthage College

2014-2017       Postdoctoral Fellow of Western Heritage, Carthage College

2013-2014       Lecturer in Contemporary Civilization, Core Curriculum, Columbia University

2011-2013       Preceptor in Contemporary Civilization, Core Curriculum, Columbia University

Publications

Books

2022 Belfast Imaginary: Art and Urban Reinvention. Lexington Books.

Refereed Journal Articles

2020                Dalal Alhomaizi, Helen Verdeli, J.A. Van Slyke, Katharine Keenan, et al. Adapting Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT-G) for Treating Depression Among Military Spouses at Naval Medical Center of Portsmouth (NMCP). Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health 6(1): 28-37.

2020                Katharine Keenan and Darwin Tsen. Reading While Walking: A Reflection on Interdisciplinary Co-Teaching. Teaching Anthropology 9(2): 51-55.

2010                Virtual Crossings: Boundaries and Transgressions in Representation and Practice in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Interactive Discourse, Vol. 2, Special Issue on Virtual Reality: Frameworks and Misconceptions.

Book Chapters

2015                ‘St. Patrick’s Day Becomes Us’: A New Parade for a New Belfast. Consuming St. Patrick’s Day. Jonathan Skinner and Dominic Bryan, eds. Pp. 114-131. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Book Reviews

2016                Out! Curb or Truck? Review of Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City. Matthew Desmond. New York: Crown Publishers. Sapiens.org http://www.sapiens.org/culture/studying-poverty-in-the-american-city/.

2013                Share and Share Alike: a Case for Sibling Equality in Georgian England. Review of Siblinghood and Social Relations in Georgian England: Share and Share Alike. Amy Harris. Manchester University Press. H-SAE, H-Net Reviews. https://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id =39246

2011                Remembering and Representing; Vietnam, East Germany and Daphne Berdahl. Review of On the Social Life of Postsocialism; Memory, Consumption, Germany. Daphne Berdahl and Matti Bunzl. Indiana University Press. H-SAE, H-Net Reviews https://www.h-net.org/reviews/show pdf.php?id=32162

2010                Putting Culture Back in Multiculturalism. Review of The Future of Multiculturalism: Confronting the Progressive Dilemma. Pathik Pathak. Edinburgh University Press. H-SAE, H-Net Reviews http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id= 264181

 

Web-Based Publications

2013                In Focus: Public and Private. Publics and Protests: Spontaneous Demonstrations in the Wake of Tragic Events. Anthropology News 54(9): e14-e27 doi:10.1111/j.1556-3502.2013.54902.x

2010                ‘Why would they ever come here?’ Imagining Immigration in Northern Ireland. Micro-Essays on Migration. Applying Anthropology. http://www.applyinganthropology.net/

2007                Douche Bag: Theory of a Thing. The (Inter)view 1 (7): 47-53. http://www.columbia.edu/~sf2220/TT2007/web-content/Pages/katie1.html

 

Other Publications

2016                Evaluation of the Humanities Citizenship Initiative (White Paper). Kenosha, WI: Carthage College.

 

In Submission

An(other) Epic: Táin Bó Cuailange as the Irish Iliad. Proceedings of the Association of Core Texts and Courses.

Inquiring Minds: A Microethnography of a Pre-College Bridge Program. Anthropology and Education Quarterly.

Awards & Honors

Pending           Art Writers Grant, Creative Capital and the Andy Warhol Foundation

Pending           Hunt Postdoctoral Fellowship, Wenner Gren Foundation

2017                Faculty Grant for Research, Scholarship and Creativity, Carthage College

2010                Visiting Research Associate, Institute of Irish Studies, Queens University Belfast, Northern Ireland

2008, 2007      President’s Grant for Diversity and University Initiatives, Teachers College, Columbia University

2004                Phi Beta Kappa, Boston University

 

Campus Talks

2018                Dangerous Symbols: Public Art and Political Conflict. Carthage College Fine Arts Colloquium on Art in Public Spaces, March 16.

2015                Patterns of Callipolis: Structuralism in Plato’s Republic. Carthage College Hannibal Lecture Series, October 15.

2015                The Struggle for Existence: Marx, Darwin, and the Emergence of a Human Consciousness. Carthage College Hannibal Lecture Series, April 16.

 

Conference Activities

Panels Organized

2017                Teaching College with Core Texts: Enculturation in the Liberal Arts. Association of Core Texts and Courses, 23rd Conference. April 20-23.

2012                Speaking of Language. American Anthropological Association 111th Meeting, San Francisco, California. November 14-18.

2009                Cross Perspectives Panel: Anthropology and the Military, Teachers College. February 19th.

Invited Papers

2011                Performing Diversity: Belfast Carnival and the Post-Conflict City. Embattled Cities: (Post)Colonial Legacies and Specters of Difference in Urban Europe. American Anthropological Association, Montreal, Quebec, November 16-20.

Papers Presented

2019                Belfast Imaginary: Parades and the Performance of Northern Irish Identity. The City as a Work of Art. American Anthropological Association, Vancouver, Canada, November 20-24.

2019                Brexit Belfast: Northern Ireland Re-Imagined in Art and Performance. Building Identities in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries: Promise and Peril. Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, Il., September 27-29.

2018                An(other) Epic: Táin Bó Cuailange as the Irish Iliad.. Epic North. ACTC 24th Conference, April 19-22.

2017                Civilizing Enkidu: Using Gilgamesh to teach Classroom Conduct. Teaching College with Core Texts: Enculturation in the Liberal Arts. ACTC 23rd Conference, April 20-23.

2016                Urban Mythopoesis: Accidental Analogues in Northern Ireland and the Upper Midwest. Theorizing and Constructing 21st Century Urban Landscapes. American Anthropological Association, Minneapolis, Minnesota, November 16-20.

2016                The Culture of Callipolis: French Structuralism and Plato’s Republic. On the Difficulties, Challenges and Changes in Student Reading. ACTC 22nd Conference, April 14-17.

2013                The “European City” as a Utopian Ideal: Imagining a Future for Belfast. Urban and Regional Spaces in Europe: Utopian Geographies. American Anthropological Association, Chicago, Il., November 20-24.

2013                How to make a European City: Politics and Policy of Regeneration in Belfast. On the Future of Anthropology in Schools of Education. Teachers College, Columbia University. October 18-19.

2012                On the Borderline between Art and Life; Belfast and the Aesthetics of Carnival. Transnational Symbols, Performance and Art. American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, CA, November 14-18.

2011                What is this Place? Site Analysis of Belfast City Hall. Shaping Place, Sensing Place. Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore, Lisbon, Portugal, April 17-21.

2010                Painting the New City: A Study of Murals and Re-Imagining in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Independent Papers on Film, Identity and Memory. American Anthropological Association, New Orleans, LA, November 17-21.

2009                Virtual Crossings: Boundaries and Transgressions in Representation and Practice in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Virtual Reality Symposium: Frameworks and (mis)-Conceptions, Institute of Education, University of London, June 24-26.

2009                Drawing Lines: Contested Space and Segregation in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Florida Association of Visual Anthropologists, University of Florida, Gainesville, March 4-6.

2008                Bounded Movement; Space and Segregation in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Theoretical Archaeology Group, Columbia University, May 23-25.

Discussant

2019                Transforming and Challenging Modern Britain in the 1960s and 1970s. Midwest Conference on British Studies, Chicago, Il., September 27-29.

2007                21st Century Fieldwork: Building on the Past. International Education Week, Teachers College.

Teaching Experience

Carthage College

  • Ireland Past and Present/Social Inquiry in Ireland

  • Qualitative Research Methods (Graduate Studies)

  • Comparative Mythology

  • Ethnography of Kenosha (J-Term, Research Experience)

  • Senior Seminar in Classics

  • Foundations of Western Thought Ancient to Medieval

  • Foundations of Western Thought Renaissance to Modern

  • Western Heritage I

  • Western Heritage II

Columbia University

  • Contemporary Civilization of the Western World I

  • Contemporary Civilization of the Western World II

CUNY York College

  • Introduction to Anthropology

Fordham University at Lincoln Center

  • Introduction to Cultural Anthropology

  • Magic, Science, and Religion

Service Activities

Carthage College

Search Committee: Western Heritage Postdoctoral Fellow (Spring 2018)

Western Heritage Oversight Committee (2017-2019); Chair (2018-2019)

Equity and Inclusion Initiative (2016-2017)

First Year Read Facilitator (2015, 2018)

Faculty Development Facilitator, Western Heritage Retreat (2015, 2017)

Western Heritage Trivia Night, Student Life Activity (2014-2016)

Lincoln Scholarship Interviewer (2015, 2016, 2017)

Community

Grant writing, evaluation consulting, Kenosha Creative Space, (Present)

Canvassing, Forward Kenosha (2017-Present)

Downtown Design Committee, Downtown Kenosha, Inc. (2015-Present)

Immigration Taskforce, Congregations United to Serve Humanity, Kenosha, WI (2015-2016)

English Tutor, Northern Ireland Center for Refugees and Asylum Seekers (NICRAS), (2010-2011)

Student Advising

Graduate Thesis, Carthage College

2017    Helene Weitzel, “Attendance, Motivation and Attitude: Impacts on Language Development,” Masters in Education

2016    Arnulfo Figuroa Aceituno, “Teachers Effectiveness: The Key to Succeed in a New Language,” (Committee Chair) Masters in Education

Undergraduate Research, Carthage College

2018    Adam Larson, “More Ghosts Than People: Perceptions of Place in a Ghost Town in the American West,” SURE Program

2016    Jamie Tyrrell, “The Liminality and Plurality of Neo-Familism in South Korea: The effects Industrialization on Social Change,” Senior Capstone Project

2016    Sharai Jacob, “Discrimination as a Barrier to Student Success,” SURE Program

Professional Associations

Editorial Freelancers Association 2019-Present

American Anthropological Association 2010-Present

Society for the Anthropology of Europe 2010-Present

Society for Urban, National and Transnational/Global Anthropology 2016-Present

Applied Research

Present             Freelance Research Consultant and Academic Editor, Self-employed.

2016- 2019      Assessment Specialist. Humanities Citizenship Initiative, Carthage College.

2019-2020       Enumerator. United States Census Bureau, Milwaukee, WI.

2016-2017       Assessment Specialist. Carthage Music Academy, Carthage College and Washington Middle School, Kenosha, WI.

2012-2013       Ethnographic Consultant. Efficacy of Group Interpersonal Psychotherapy (IPT) for Depression Among Spouses of Military Service People. New York State Psychiatric Institute and Navy Medical Center of Portsmouth.

2011-2012       Ethnographic Consultant. Rapid Assessment of Organ Procurement Barriers in Donation, Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine, Dept of Social and Behavioral Health.

2006-2007       Ethnographic Consultant, Smart Revenue.

Other Professional Experience

2008-2010       Interim Coordinator; Graduate Assistant. Teachers College Center for African Education. Coordinated authors, edited curriculum supplements for NYC teachers. Developed programming and educational materials for West African immigrant students. Managed web outreach, organized panels and events.

2006-2007       Assistant Teaching Artist. Magic Box Productions, Brooklyn, NY. Assisted film-education residencies.

2005-2006       Program Assistant. Boston University International Program, Dresden, Germany. Liaison, translator and resident advisor for B.U. engineering students abroad.

2004                Programming Assistant. Empire State Partnerships. Coordinated registration and professional development activities for NY State artists and educators conference.

2003                Education Apprentice. New Victory Theater, New 42 Organization, NY. Wrote curriculum supplements, aligned program themes with state educational standards.

2003                Intern. The Ark, Cultural Center for Children, Dublin, Ireland.

Languages

English            Native

German           Conversational fluency, advanced reading and writing

Irish-Gaelic     Beginning speaker

Media Coverage

  • Carthage Bridge; First Lady Cameron Swallow’s Welcome Home Tour blog. “Field Trip! Ethnography of Kenosha” and “A Gallery Tour” By Cameron Swallow January 14 and 27, 2019. https://www.carthage.edu/live/blogs/70-j-term-at-carthage-ethnography-of-kenosha; https://www.carthage.edu/live/blogs/100-a-gallery-crawl

  • Kenosha News “What Makes a Kenoshan?” January 26, 2016             http://www.kenoshanews.com/news/what_makes_a_kenoshan_486316468.php

  • Carthage Bridge “Summer Humanities Program Demystifies College” August 24, 2016 https://www.carthage.edu/live/news/11355-summer-humanities-program-demystifies-college