Katherine K. Preston (née Imfeld, born December 7, 1950) is an American musicologist and educator.
She taught on the faculty of the College of William & Mary from 1989 until 2018 when she retired and was named a professor emerita.
She has authored biographies on composers Scott Joplin and George Frederick Bristow as well as books on traveling musicians and opera troupes in the United States during the 19th century.
She later studied musicology under H. Wiley Hitchcock at the City University of New York where she graduated with a PhD in 1989.
[5][6] Her biography on composer George Frederick Bristow was published by University of Illinois Press in 2020.