Katherine Walden
Director, Sport, Media, and Culture Minor and Associate Teaching Professor of American Studies
- Office
- 310D O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556 - kwalden@nd.edu
- Website
- americanstudies.nd.edu/faculty/katherine-walden
Biography
Katherine Walden received a Ph.D. in American Studies-Sport Studies at the University of Iowa, where she also earned M.A. in Library and Information Science, with a Certificate in Public Digital Humanities. Walden earned a B.M. in Musical Arts from Vanderbilt University.
Her research and teaching looks at the intersection of sport and culture, with a focus on professional baseball labor. She is currently working on a monograph project that outlines an alternative history for professional baseball labor through focusing on Minor League Baseball players and teams. Her research uses data analysis, visualization, and interactive digital mapping to illustrate the scale and scope of Minor League Baseball labor, as well as the historical forces and labor structures that shape Minor League players’ working conditions. She is also involved in outreach and advocacy work lobbying for improved working conditions for Minor League players.
An emerging area of research specialization for Walden is critical approaches to sport data and the cultural politics of sport data.
Courses Taught
SMAC 30102 - Baseball and America
SMAC 30105 - Sport and Big Data
SMAC 30109 - Football in America
Research Interests
Digital Humanities, Public Humanities, Archives, Sport and American Culture (labor politics, race and ethnicity, gender, community identity, sport fan communities, sport data and analytics), Critical Approaches to Data
Education
PhD, American Studies (Sport Studies track), University of Iowa
MA, Library and Information Science, University of Iowa
MA, American Studies (Sport Studies track), University of Iowa
BM, Musical Arts, Vanderbilt University