Dr Katrina Dean

Keeper of Archives and Modern Manuscripts

Directorate: Research Collections

Department: Archives and Modern Manuscripts

Email: kjd32@cam.ac.uk

Katrina's research specialisms are archives and the history of science and technology.

Professional roles include editor (2017-2018) and editorial board member (2019-) of Archives and Manuscripts, external member of Science Museum Group Collections and Research Committee (2018-2022) and editorial board member for the Electronic British Library Journal (2006-2010).

She has been archives lead for the acquisitions of the papers of Germaine Greer (University of Melbourne, 2013) and Stephen Hawking (University of Cambridge, 2021), the University of Cambridge Archive Service Accreditation (2018), and the University of Cambridge Archive Management System (2020). She has also been project lead for digitisation projects including the Macclesfield (2020-2022) and Darwin (2019-2023) papers.

Publications:

Peer reviewed journal articles

• Simon Naylor, Katrina Dean and Martin Siegert (2008) ‘The IGY and the ice sheet: surveying Antarctica, Journal of Historical Geography, 34/4, pp.574-595.
• Simone Turchetti, Simon Naylor, Katrina Dean and Martin Siegert (2008) ‘On thick Ice: scientific internationalism and Antarctic Affairs, 1957-1980’, History and Technology, 24/4, pp. 351-376.
• Simone Turchetti, Katrina Dean, Simon Naylor and Martin Siegert (2008) 'Accidents and Opportunities: A History of the Radio Echo Sounding of Antarctica, 1958-1979', British Journal for the History of Science, 41/3, pp. 417-444.
• Katrina Dean, Simon Naylor, Simone Turchetti and Martin Siegert (2008) 'Data in Antarctic science and politics', Social Studies of Science, 38/4, pp. 571-603.
• Simon Naylor, Martin Siegert, Katrina Dean and Simone Turchetti ‘Science, geopolitics and the governance of Antarctica’, Nature Geoscience, 1/3, 2008, pp. 143-145.
• Katrina Dean (2007) 'Demonstrating the Melbourne University Respirator', Australian Journal of Politics and History, 53, pp. 392-406.
• Katrina Dean (2003) 'Inscribing settler science: Ernest Rutherford, Thomas Laby and the making of careers in physics', History of Science, 41, pp. 217–240.
• Katrina Dean (2003) 'The physicist's homestead: Alexander McAulay, hydroelectricity and mathematical physics in Tasmania', Tasmanian Historical Studies, 8, pp. 56–77.
  
  Books / book chapters
  
• Katrina Dean, ‘Rountree, Phyllis Margaret’, Australian Dictionary of Biography volume 19, 2021, online in 2019, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/rountree-phyllis-margaret-27706
• Katrina Dean ‘Science and the First World War’ in Kate Darian-Smith and James Waghorne, eds. The First World War, The Universities and the Professions in Australia 1914-1939 (Melbourne University Press, 2019).
• Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean and Chitra Ramalingam, eds. William Henry Fox Talbot: beyond photography (Yale University Press, 2013).
• Katrina Dean (2013) ‘Lacock Abbey and the Country House Archive’ in Mirjam Brusius, Katrina Dean and Chitra Ramalingam, eds. William Henry Fox Talbot: beyond photography (Yale University Press, 2013).
  
  Other writings
• Katrina Dean (2015) ‘Fritz Loewe: Scientist, Émigré’, The Australia Jewish Historical Society Journal, 22/3, pp. 497-511.
• Katrina Dean (2015), The Melbourne University Respirator, entry in exhibition catalogue, Compassion and Courage: Australian doctors and dentists in the Great War, University of Melbourne Medical History Museum.
• Shadbolt, A; Konstantelos, L; McCarthy, G; Dean, K; O'Neil, O (2015), University of Melbourne Digital Preservation Strategy 2015-2025 - Implementation Roadmaps, University of Melbourne, http://hdl.handle.net/11343/45136.
• Katrina Dean (2014), ‘Digitizing the Modern Archive’, Archives and Manuscripts, 42/2, May 2014, pp. 171-174.
• Katrina Dean (2013), ‘Why Germaine Greer’s life in letters is one for the archives’, The Conversation Australian edition, 1 November, https://theconversation.com/why-germaine-greers-life-in-letters-is-one-for-the-archives-19625
• Pete Williams, Ian Rowlands, Katrina Dean, Jeremy Leighton John (2008) ‘Digital Lives: Report of Interviews With the Creators of Personal Digital Collections’. Ariadne Issue 55 http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue55/williams-et-al/
• Zoe Smith and Katrina Dean, 'Doctor Darwin's Diary' https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/dr-darwins-diary
  
  Reviews
• The Overland Telegraph Line: A Transcultural History. History Australia, published online 06 Feb 2023, https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14490854.2022.2162344.
• Aitor Anduaga, Geophysics, Realism and Industry: How Commercial Interests Shaped Geophysical Conceptions, 1900-1960, (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016). Isis, 108 (2), pp. 482-483 (2017).
• Elizabeth A Slomba, How to Manage Processing in Archives and Special Collections, Archives and Manuscripts, 41/3, November 2013, pp. 222-225.

Professional memberships

• Australian Society of Archivists Recognised Professional (ASARP)