Dr Kirsten Carter McKee

Dr Kirsten Carter McKee is a postdoctoral fellow in ESALA. She specialises in cultural landscapes and heritage – with a particular focus on monuments, Empire and the urban realm. Her research explores the imperial landscapes of the British Empire of the 18th and 19th century, linking this with conversations around state and colonial control, and white supremacist ideologies through the cultural outputs of Empire.

Her RSE/ESRC funded research network, Managing Imperial legacies, is currently exploring the legacies of the transatlantic slave trade on shaping Scotland’s built environment, and building conversations on how we engage with this through interaction with our built heritage.