Dr Caroline Douglas
Dr Caroline Douglas
- Lecturer
- ORCID
https://orcid.org/0009-0003-7642-2058- Professional Title
- Dr
- Job Title
- Lecturer
- School or Academic Area
- School of Fine Art
- School or Academic Area Supervised for
- School of Fine Art
- c.douglas@gsa.ac.uk
- Professional Address
- Fine Art Photography School of Fine Art The Glasgow School of Art Stow Building 43 Shamrock Street Glasgow G4 9LD
Biography
I am an artist and historian of early photography. In my practice I move across photography, writing and creative archival research processes to work cross-historically, re-touching the archive, to recover and repair marginalised histories.
In 2024 I completed my practice-led PhD project at Royal College of Art, where I researched the role of gender and class in early Scottish photography.
In 2024/2025 I undertook my postdoctoral studies in the USA. I was the Fedwa Malti-Douglas Fellow at the American Philosophical Society’s Library & Museum (Philadelphia). I also received the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research where I worked at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University. I was also the 2025/26 Otlet Fellow at the Science History Institute, also in Philadelphia.
In 2025/26 I was a research fellow at The University of Glasgow Library. I am currently a 2025/26 Research Fellow at the Consortium for History of Science, Technology and Medicine.
I am working towards my first book on gender class and photographic invention in Scotland.
Research Interests
Contemporary fine art photography, moving image, feminist methods, gender, class, photographic invention, early photography (Scotland)
Grants
Small Grants
2026 Realisation Grant, Centre for British Photography
2025-26 Elizabeth Lornie Award, Royal Scottish Academy
2025-26 Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry
2025 Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research
2024 Scottish Historical Review Bursary
2023 The Alasdair Ross Prize, Scottish History Society
PGR Supervision Interests
Contemporary fine art photography, feminist methods in art practice, photographic history
Teaching
I am Co-Lead Year 4, Fine Art Photography.
Latest Additions
- Douglas, Caroline (2024) Retouching The Archive: Gender and Class in Early Photography in Scotland. Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Darwin Building at the Royal College of Art, South Kensington, London, July 4 2024
- Douglas, Caroline (2024) La couleur est la lumière: Inventions historiques, experimentations contemporaines, Le Point Du Jour, France.
- Douglas, Caroline (2024) The chloride of silver answers perfectly, 25 October 1835.
- Douglas, Caroline (2023) Newhaven’s Last Working Fishwife / Queen Victoria’s Funeral Procession.
- Douglas, Caroline (2023) Experiments on Light: On the action of the rays of the spectrum on vegetable juices (revisited).
- Douglas, Caroline, Krauss, Annette, Stacey, Frances, Scott, Alison and Stria, Alix (2023) 'Frederick Douglass : Witness to Early Scottish Photography', Common Good and Colonialism: How Does Collective Relate To The Common Good? (Study Resource).
- Douglas, Caroline (2023) Unanchored Seaweeds: Anna Atkins, Two Readings.
- Douglas, Caroline (2022) Retouching Postpartum. In: ‘I Care By…’. RCA Research Communiqués, London. ISBN 978-1-8383543-3-6
- Douglas, Caroline (2022) Experiments on Light (Mary Somerville).
- Douglas, Caroline (2021) Frederick Douglas: Witness to Early Scottish Photography. National Galleries of Scotland: Feature Articles.
