Katie Barclay
DECRA Fellow, University of Adelaide
Katie Barclay is a gender and cultural historian with a particular interest in power relationships and the history of the emotions. She is the author of Love, Intimacy and Power: Marriage and Patriarchy in Scotland, 1650-1850 (Manchester University Press, 2011) and numerous articles on marriage and family life. She has a broad interest in how people shape their identities, particularly within families, and how that intersects with wider cultural norms, power relationships, and social structures. She has a particular interest in the role of space in shaping human experience and emotions as a dynamic in social change. This has given her an interest in how urban and rural contexts impact of lived experiences. Barclay is one of the editors of the Routledge History Handbook of Gender and the Urban Experience, and is currently working on a project on intimate relationships amongst lower order Scots.