Kate Davison

Dr Kate Davison lectures at the University of Edinburgh as a historian of psy-sciences, sexuality, gender, emotions and politics in twentieth-century Central Europe and the British Commonwealth. Her research interests span the nineteenth to twenty-first centuries in global, world and transnational perspective, as well as postcolonial, archive, museum and memory studies. Her current research focuses on the psychiatric treatment of queer desire and gender during the Cold War and she has worked extensively in the field of queer archives and public history and memory, and as a translator of scholarly texts from German to English.