Director
Professor
Tom Devine. Author of The Tobacco
Lords: A Study of the Tobacco Merchants
of Glasgow and their Trading Activities,
1740-1790 (second edition, 1992); The
Great Highland Famine (1988); editor,
Scottish Emigration and Scottish Society
(1992); Scotland's Empire, 1600-1815
(2003); Scotland's Empire and the Shaping
of the Americas (2004); co-editor (with David Hesse), Scotland and Poland: Historical Encounters 1500-2010 (2011); To the Ends of the Earth: Scotland's Global Diaspora (2011); co-editor (with John M MacKenzie), Scotland and the British Empire (2011).
Associate Directors
Dr
Enda Delaney (on research leave 2010-2013). Author
of The Irish in Post-war Britain (2007);
co-editor (with Donald M MacRaild), Irish
Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities
since 1750 (2007); Irish Emigration
since 1921 (2002).
Dr
Alex Murdoch (on research leave January-April 2012). Author
of British Emigration, 1603-1914
(2004); Scotland and America c.1600-c.1800
(2010).
Acting Associate Director (2010-2012)
Dr Wendy Ugolini. Author of Experiencing War as the
'Enemy Other': Italian Scottish Experience in World War Two (2011). Teaching honours option 'Immigration and
Ethnicity in Modern Britain, 1850-1970'.
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow
Dr Amy J Lloyd researches emigration from Britain during the
late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. She completed her PhD in
history at the University of Cambridge in 2010. Her dissertation - which
she is currently converting into a monograph - examines popular perceptions
of emigration in Britain between 1870 and 1914. She has recently started a
new research project on English emigration to Canada between 1900 and 1914,
which is funded by a three-year Early Career Fellowship from The Leverhulme
Trust.
Scottish Government Postdoctoral Research Fellows
Dr Joan Haig researches settler minorities in Southern and Central Africa, and theories of diaspora and migration. She completed her PhD in African
Studies in Edinburgh in 2010. Her thesis examined the histories and
identities of the Hindu minority in Lusaka, Zambia. Her current research
project examines Scottish migration to Northern Rhodesia/Zambia, and the
role of associations such as the Caledonian Society and the Freemasons in
expatriate and settler networks.
Dr Bernard Kelly researches military and assisted emigration from the
UK and Ireland during the twentieth century. He completed his PhD in
history at the National University of Ireland, Galway, in 2010 and
researched the experiences of Irish veterans of the Second World War.
This is being published by Irish Academic Press in 2012. Bernard's new
research will concentrate on assisted emigration schemes to the
British Empire and Commonwealth for Scottish ex-servicemen in the
years following the Second World War.
The third fellow to be confirmed.
The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation Research Fellow
Dr Richard Mc Mahon researches the history of violence, law and migration in nineteenth-century Britain, Ireland and North America. He is currently working on a comparative study of Irish migration to Glasgow, New York, San Francisco and Toronto in the nineteenth century which is funded by a research grant from The Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation. He completed his PhD in the School of Law at University College Dublin in 2007 and has held research fellowships at NUI, Maynooth, New York University and Stanford University.
Enquiries
and Administration
Anne
Brockington
School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh,
Doorway 4,
Teviot Place,
Edinburgh,
EH8 9AG
E-mail: Anne.Brockington@ed.ac.uk
Tel: 0131 651 1254
Fax: 0131 650 4042
Visiting Professor
Emeritus Professor J M Mackenzie.
Author of The Scots in South Africa:
Ethnicity, Identity, Gender and Race
(2007); co-editor (with T M Devine), Scotland and the British Empire (2011) and numerous works on Scotland and
Empire.
Honorary
Postdoctoral Fellows
Dr
Eva Becsei-Kilborn, Dr.Phil University
of Debrecen, Ph.D in History from University
of Illinois at Chicago, has published articles
in Science Studies, and in History of Education.
Current research, "In search of a better
future?" Changing patterns of Hungarian
migration to Scotland. Questions of integration,
acculturation and identity.
Dr
Esther Breitenbach. In 2009 she
was awarded a research grant of £289,000
for a major project on Empire and Civil
Society in 20th century Scotland: Imperial
Decline and National Identity c.1918 to
1970. Publications include contributions
to H Carey ed Empires of Religion and C
Bates and A Major eds Britain and the Indian
Uprising of 1857.
Dr David Dobson is the
author of Scottish Emigration to Colonial
America, 1607-1785 (1994), Scottish
Trade with Colonial Charleston 1683 to 1783
(2009) and many additional volumes of data
on Scottish emigration overseas in the early
modern period.
Dr Eric Graham. His
publications include A Maritime History
of Scotland, 1650-1790 (2002); Seawolves:
Pirates and Scots (2005); Clyde
Built: Blockade Runners, Cruisers and Armoured
Rams of the American Civil War (2006).
Dr George McGilvary.
Author of East India Patronage and the
British State: the Scottish Elite and Politics
in the Eighteenth Century (2008).
Dr
Lesley Orr has researched the involvement
of Scottish women in foreign missions, and
is the author of A Unique and Glorious
Mission: Women and Presbyterianism and Scotland
c1830 - c1930 (John Donald, 2000).
She will be working on an ESRC funded project
on Empire and Civil Society in 20th Century
Scotland with Dr Esther Breitenbach from
September 2009.
Dr Douglas Watt is a former
postdoctoral fellow in Scottish History
funded by the Stewart Ivory Foundation,
and author of The Price of Scotland:
Darien, Union and the Wealth of Nations
(2007). Winner of the 2008 Senior
Hume Brown Prize in Scottish History.
Dr Iain Whyte researches on slavery and abolition in Britain and the United States. He is author of Scotland and the Abolition of Black Slavery 1756 -1838 (2006) and the forthcoming Zachary Macaulay (1768-1838) The Steadfast Scot in the British Anti-Slavery Movement (2011).
For details of the Research
Students associated with the Centre please see the Graduate Studies page.
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