Kathleen Butterly Nigro is a teaching professor in the Department of Sociology, Gerontology, and Gender and the program director for the Gender Studies Program/Office of Sexuality and Gender Diversity at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. Her interest in the history of Missouri women began when she interned at the library of the Missouri History Museum as a contributor to In Her Place: A Guide to St. Louis Women’s History. That interest has continued as a founding member of the Kate Chopin Society of North America, encouraging local interest in a native writer, and as a board member of the Kate Chopin International Society, which encourages global scholarly interest in Chopin’s work. Examining the WPA slave narratives through a gendered lens led to the current and ongoing study of personal narratives of America’s enslaved individuals. Dr. Nigro, teaches classes on Feminism and Witchcraft, Nineteenth-century Spiritualism, America’s Slave Narratives, Civil War Literature, Censorship and Young Adult Literature, and Literature of the Holocaust, among other topics. In 2013, she was the recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence to a Non-tenure Track Faculty Member. In 2017, she was the recipient of the Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Campus Service.