DrKathleen Davidson

Kathleen (Kate) Davidson is an art historian and curator. Her areas of research include: nineteenth-century visual culture; the history of photography; and the intersections of visual art and science, with particular focus on nineteenth-century intellectual, professional and creative networks and exchanges. She is author of Photography, Natural History and the Nineteenth-Century Museum: Exchanging Views of Empire (Routledge, 2017; 2020) and co-editor of Sea Currents in Nineteenth-Century Art, Science and Culture: Commodifying the Ocean World (Bloomsbury, 2023; 2025). Previously, she was Curator of International Photography at the National Gallery of Australia.