Cat Dawson

Cat Dawson, Ph.D., is an art historian and gender and sexuality studies scholar who works on modern and contemporary visual culture in the U.S. and Europe. Their first book, Monumental: How a New Generation of Artists is Shaping the Memorial Landscape, was published in 2025 with The MIT Press, and their second book, Trans Form: Gender, Visibility, and the Politics of Abstract Aesthetics, has also been solicited by MIT. Currently they are a researcher at Smith College.