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Dr Caitlín Doherty is a reporter and critic. She studied English Literature and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge and has a PhD in the history of aviation.
After graduating, she worked as an editor at Verso Books, then New Left Review. She writes regularly for NLR and the New Statesman, and has been published by Harper’s, The Baffler, Film Comment, New Internationalist, Jacobin and Art Forum.
Her work combines local narrative with global history, and focuses on European politics, economics, technology and culture. During the fellowship she will complete a study of the Swiss town of Davos, to be published by Faber & Faber and One Signal. She is thrilled to join the academic community of LSE and to have the opportunity to work with the renowned Department of International History.
Dr Caitlín Doherty is the inaugural David McClure Visiting Fellow for 2026-27. The fellowship, generously supported by the David McClure Trust Fund, assists writers and scholars who are committed to producing a significant, original non-fiction book or work for a mass readership. The fellowship will enable the creation of work intended for a general audience, that is rigorously researched, non-partisan, and of contemporary relevance.