Kathryn Lively is a Professor of Sociology at Dartmouth College. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 1999, M.A. in Sociology from Vanderbilt University in 1996, B.A. in Sociology magna cum laude from the University of Tulsa in 1993, and A.A. in Liberal Arts summa cum laude from Tulsa Community College in 1991. Following a National Institute of Mental Health Post-Doctoral Fellowship at Indiana University Bloomington from 2000 to 2002, she joined Dartmouth College in 2002 as an Assistant Professor of Sociology, promoted to Associate Professor in 2008 and Professor in 2015. Lively has held significant administrative roles, including Chair of the Department of Sociology from 2011 to 2015, inaugural House Professor for South House from 2015 to 2019, Interim Dean of the College from 2018 to 2019, and Dean of the College from 2019 to 2021.

Her research interests center at the nexus of identity, emotion, and culture, encompassing the sociology of emotion, emotion management, social psychology, Affect Control Theory, identity, and Internal Family Systems. She pursues two long-term projects: identifying social psychological and cultural mechanisms underlying significant and sustainable weight loss, and integrating sociological social psychology and psychiatry theories to explain reframing of past trauma for emotional healing and identity transformation among those with complex trauma. Lively co-authored the textbook Selves, Symbols, and Social Reality: A Symbolic Interactionist Approach to Social Psychology and Sociology (4th edition, Oxford University Press, 2013). Key publications include "The Affective Self: Persistence of Self-Sentiments in Late Life Dementia" (Social Psychology Quarterly, 2020), "Sociological Realms of Emotional Experience" (American Journal of Sociology, 2004), "Investigating the Relationship Among Sex, Anger, and Depression" (Social Forces, 2010), "Equity, Emotion, and the Household Division of Labor" (Social Psychology Quarterly, 2010), and "Emotion Management: Sociological Insight into What, How, Why and To What End?" (Emotion Review, 2014). Awards include the Recent Contribution to Research on the Sociology of Emotion Award from the American Sociological Association (2013, 2005), Best Paper Award from the ASA Mental Health Section (2011), and multiple Dartmouth fellowships and grants. She served on editorial boards of Journal of Health and Social Behavior and Social Psychology Quarterly, and as action editor for Emotion Review.

Professional Email: Kathryn.J.Lively@dartmouth.edu