Caroline Douglas

Caroline Douglas is an artist and historian of early photography. In 2024 she completed her PhD by practice at the Royal College of Art, London, where she researched the role of gender and class in early photography in Scotland. In her practice she moves across photography, writing and creative archival research. Based in the United States 2024-2025, she has continued her research in this area as the Fedwa Malti-Douglas Fellow at the American Philosophical Society and at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library with the support of the Peter E. Palmquist Memorial Fund for Historical Photographic Research. As a fellow at the Institute, she will explore the life and work of the chemist Elizabeth Fulhame (fl. 1794). In particular, she will examine Fulhame’s contributions to the field of photographic invention and situate her within a wider network of chemists from the late 18th and early 19th centuries, both in Scotland and Philadelphia.