Fellow 2023/2024 Katie Barclay
Fellowship Term: 10/2023 – 02/2024
Katie Barclay is Professor, Head of Historical and Classical Studies, and Director of the Fay Gale Centre for Research on Gender at the University of Adelaide. She was Deputy Director of the ARC Centre for Excellence in the History of Emotions from 2019 to 2022. Barclay studied at the University of Glasgow and worked in the UK at the Institute of Historical Research, university of Warwick and Queen’s University, Belfast, before emigrating to Australia. Barclay writes widely in the area of the History of Emotions, gender and family life. Her books include Caritas: Neighbourly Love and the Early Modern Self (Oxford, 2021), Academic Emotions: Feeling the institution (Cambridge, 2021), The History of Emotions: A Student Guide to Sources and Methods (London, 2020), Men on Trial: Performing Emotion, Embodiment and Identity in Ireland, 1800-1845 (Manchester, 2019) and Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester, 2011). This project emerges from the research that explores how children and families build futures in times of significant crises.
