Kathy Giuffre
Katherine Giuffre was born and raised in Arkansas, and received a BA from Harvard University and a PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is a professor of sociology at Colorado College, a specialist in the study of social networks in the art world, and the author of Collective Creativity: Art and Society in the South Pacific. Her research on Pacific artists led to her spending a year living on Rarotonga in the Cook Islands group. Today she lives in Colorado Springs with her husband and two sons.