Kathryn Burns-Howard

Field: America [19th-century/Women's]

Topic: "'No Vote, No Friends, No Hope': Insanity and the Conditions of Citizenship in New York: 1844-1894"

Advisor: Susan Pearson

Contact: kburns-howardnorthwestern.edu

Kathryn Burns-Howard (BA, U Penn; MA, Northwestern) is a Ph.D. candidate in nineteenth-century U.S. cultural and intellectual history at Northwestern University. She is currently working on a dissertation entitled: "'No Vote, No Friends, No Hope': Insanity and the Conditions of Citizenship in New York," a project that draws on both lower and superior court trial records, as well as personal narratives and professional treatises. Her dissertation work is also illuminated by studies in British intellectual history and gender theory. She has previously taught seminars at Northwestern focusing on 19th-century popular culture in the United States, the birth of the American women's movement in the 19th-century, and 20th-century feminism and post-feminism.