Kate Dossett is Professor of American History at the University of Leeds. She is a historian of the twentieth century United States with broad interests in cultural and political history and specializations in African American History,  Gender histories and histories of the African Diaspora. She has published widely on Black cultural history including theatre, the Harlem Renaissance, Black Feminism and the histories of the archive. Her work has appeared in the Journal of Women’s History, African American Review, the Journal of American Studies and the Journal of American Drama and Theatre. She is the author of the award-winning book, Bridging Race Divides: Feminism, Nationalism and Integration, 1896-1935.

Her latest book, Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal, examines Black theatre making and performance in the 1930s and was published in the John Hope Franklin Series in African American History and Culture by the University of North Carolina Press in Spring 2020. Kate is especially interested in working with contemporary theatre makers to revise, remake and reimagine  the ways in which we understand Black heritage and history through culture.

Projects include working with the National Theatre in London on African American Playwriting in the Twentieth Century and with the Eccles Centre at the British Library on Black theatre manuscripts in the Lord Chamberlain’s Plays Collection.

Biographical details correct as of 18.09.24