Kate Cowcher is Lecturer in Art History and Co-Director of the Centre for Contemporary Art at University of St Andrews. Her research encompasses modern and contemporary art from Africa, cultural exchange in the Cold War, and collections of historic and modern art from the African continent in the UK. In 2021 she curated the exhibition ‘Dar to Dunoon: Modern African Art from the Argyll Collection’ at Dunoon Burgh Hall, which is part of an ongoing research collaboration with Argyll and Bute Council to document their collection of modernist art from East and South Africa.

She currently holds a Leverhulme Trust Research Fellowship to support the writing of her first book, Beyond the Feudal Fog: Art and Revolution in Ethiopia. This book is based upon her PhD. At Cove Park she will be drafting the introduction to this work, which is a major study of art and visual culture in the years before and after the Ethiopian revolution of 1974