CV
Want to know a bit more about my work and career path? Here is the place!
IN academia…
I am a researcher, historian and author - and some of that work has been done in the context of universities.
2024 - present: Lecturer in Environmental History, Newcastle University
2019-2024: Postdoctoral Researcher and Curator, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
2014-2018: PhD Candidate and Teaching Assistant, Queen Mary University of London
IN museums…
I am also an experienced curator, collections manager and public engagement professional.
2019 - 2024: Postdoctoral Researcher and Curator, Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen
2017-2019: Senior Curator, Royal College of Physicians Museum
2013-2014: Assistant Curator, Hunterian Museum (Royal College of Surgeons)
2011-2013: Collections Information Officer, Science Museum
2009-2010: Development Assistant, National Museum of Women in the Arts
Academic Publications
Academic researchers speak in peer-reviewed publications, so here are some of mine.
Hussey, K. D. (in press) ‘Sleep Patterns and Regimens, 1860–1945,’ A Cultural History of Sleep and Dreaming, Volume 5, eds. Michaela Schrage-Früh and Hannah Ahlheim, Bloomsbury Academic.
Hussey, K. D. (2025) ‘Imperial Sleep: Imperial Sleep: Race, Climate and Health in late nineteenth and early twentieth century British India,' Journal of Social History.
Hussey, K. D. (2024) ‘Z-Time: Making and Feeling Time in the Chronobiological Laboratory,’ Time & Society, 33(3): 307-330.
Hussey, K. D. (2023) ‘‘Timeless Spaces: Field experiments in the physiological study of circadian rhythms, 1938–1963,’ History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 45(2): 17.
Hussey, K.D. (2022) ‘‘The Waste of Daylight’: Rhythmicity, Workers’ Health and Britain’s Edwardian Daylight Saving Time Bills,’ Social History of Medicine 35(2): 422–443
Hussey, K. D. (2022) ‘Rhythmic history: Towards a new research agenda for the history of health and medicine,’ Endeavour 46(4):100846.
Hussey, K. D. (2021) Imperial Bodies in London: Empire, Mobility and the Making of British Medicine, 1880-1914 (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press).
Hussey, K. D. (2021) ‘‘Visceral consciousness’: The gut-brain axis in sleep and sleeplessness in Britain and America, 1850–1914,’ Bulletin of the History of Medicine 95(3): 350–378.
Hussey, K. D. and Biggins, M. (2021) ‘Clinical images, imperial power and Bhau Daji’s secret treatment for leprosy at the Royal College of Physicians Museum,’ Science Museum Group Journal 15 http://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk/browse/issue-15/clinical-images/
Hussey, K. D. (2019) ‘Sir Patrick Manson at home: 21 Queen Anne Street as hybrid space,’ Journal of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh 49: 84–91.
Hussey, K. D. (2017) ‘Seen and unseen: The representations of visible and hidden disease in the waxworks of Joseph Towne at the Gordon Museum, KCL,’ 19: The Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century 24 https://19.bbk.ac.uk/article/id/1707/print/
Hussey, K. D. (2014) ‘The Colyer Collection of First World War dental radiographs and casts at the Hunterian Museum,’ Dental Historian 59(2):66–73.
OTHER COOL STUFF
Not all research takes the form of a peer reviewed academic publication. Here are some other kinds of things I have made or contributed to.
‘Tales from the Chronobiology Lab’: Open Access Science Comic, created in collaboration with Sofie Louise Dam and scientists from CBMR: Tales from the Chronobiology Lab – University of Copenhagen
‘The World is in You: Documentation, Reflections, Lessons,’ Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen Open Access resource: https://wwwmuseion.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/The-World-is-in-You-Documentation-Reflections-Lessons.pdf?fbclid=IwAR2XAl6MDYzfVnFZA817TkvNRmIL-HoGGuSnj3sQpYRIN8aB8tR3ML70_SQ
‘Making Sunstroke Insanity,’ Eugenics and Other Stories, ed. Subhadra Das, Wellcome Collection Digital Stories. https://wellcomecollection.org/articles/YxWwaBEAACEAi5jI
‘Exhibition Review: Kirchner and Nolde: Up for Discussion,’ Museum Worlds 10(1): 268–270. https://www.berghahnjournals.com/view/journals/museum-worlds/10/1/museum-worlds.10.issue-1.xml
‘In Praise of Touching,’ The Polyphony: Conversations across the Medical Humanities https://thepolyphony.org/2020/06/01/in-praise-of-touching/
‘Women Still Fighting to Get their Dues in the Medical Profession,’ The Guardian (2018), co-authored with Anne Hanley https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/sep/20/women-still-fighting-to-get-their-dues-in-the-medical-profession
‘Learning to Speak Museum: Collections Information for Exhibitions,’ in Research on Display: A Guide to Collaborative Exhibitions for Academics, pp.19–21, ed. Laura Humphreys, Queen Mary University of London https://www.qmul.ac.uk/geog/media/geography/docs/staff/Research-on-Display-Final.pdf