Dr Stephen Mullen

  • Lecturer in History (History)

email: Stephen.Mullen@glasgow.ac.uk

R. 103, 9 University Gardens, University of Glasgow, G12 8QQ

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ORCID iDhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051

Biography

Stephen Mullen is alumnus of the Universities of Strathclyde and Glasgow, completing a PhD at the latter institution in 2015. This doctoral thesis examined Scotland’s relationship with Atlantic slavery from c.1775 until emancipation in the British West Indies,1834/8. The main focus was Glasgow’s West India merchants and planters, assessing how slavery-derived merchant and sojourning capital reshaped Scotland. He undertook extended research trips to Caribbean islands Jamaica, Grenada and Trinidad looking for traces of long dead Scotsmen who repatriated West India fortunes which ‘improved’ Scottish regions. His first monograph, The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775-1838 (2022) was published by University of London Press in the Royal Historical Society/Institute of Historical Research flagship New Historical Perspectives series.

Stephen’s postdoctoral work focused on the social and economic histories and consequences of chattel slavery in a British-Atlantic framework. He was a Postdoctoral Researcher (2015-17) on the Leverhulme Trust funded project ‘Runaway Slaves in Britain: bondage, freedom and race in the eighteenth century’ (P.I: Simon Newman), which compiled 800 newspaper adverts that aimed to facilitate the recapture of ‘Black runaways’ across many towns and cities in 18th century Great Britain. Stephen was principal researcher and co-author of the report ‘Slavery, Abolition and the University of Glasgow’ (2017-18), which led to the sector-leading Reparative Justice strategy. He has acted as consultant as other British universities develop similar studies.  

Stephen has been commissioned by public bodies and private organisations to examine the historical legacies of Atlantic slavery which extend to present day in many British cities and institutions. Between 2019-22, he was commissioned by Glasgow City Council to lead an audit of the city of Glasgow’s historic connections with Atlantic slavery. The ‘Glasgow Slavery Audit’ assessed the city’s slavery legacies in built heritage (especially statues, street names, and buildings), in the process addressing long-term debates how Glasgow should recognise its long historic connections with Atlantic slavery. On 31 March 2022, Glasgow City Council formally apologised for the city’s involvement with transatlantic slavery – the first ever apology of its type on behalf of a Scottish institution or city. Stephen has also undertaken consultations for museums and charities examining the legacies of slavery, such as Birmingham Museums Trust (2020), the Corra Foundation (2023), and North Lanarkshire Council Museums (2024). Alongside Andrew Mackillop and Steve Driscoll, Stephen was Co-Investigator on the Historic Environment Scotland funded project ‘Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997’ (2022-24), which assessed Scotland’s most iconic sites in state care and the legacies of colonialism.

As of 1 August 2023, Stephen is Lecturer in History (Legacies of Atlantic Slavery), a cross-centre appointment between The Centre for Scottish and Celtic Studies and the Beniba Centre for Slavery Studies.

Research interests

  • West India elites and lower ranks in metropolitan and colonial contexts
  • Atlantic slavery, capitalism and Britain’s Industrial Revolutions
  • Eric Williams and the historiographical afterlives of Capitalism and Slavery (1944)
  • Social and economic history of 18th and 19th century Scotland
  • Atlantic slavery and British institutions

Research groups

Publications

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2024

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2024) Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)? Slavery and Abolition, 45(4), pp. 940-944. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2024.2407218)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 and Driscoll, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-2571 (2024) Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997. Other. Historic Environment Scotland.

de Lima, Philomena, Dhanda, Meena, Mcbride, Maureen, Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Sood, Arun (2024) Cross-Journal Special Edition: Race and Racism in Scotland. [Edited Journal]

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2024) Historiographical afterlives of Capitalism and Slavery (1944) and the Williams theses. In: 47th ICOFOM Symposium: Transnational Island Museologies, St Andrews, UK, 05-07 Jun 2024, pp. 193-197. ISBN 9782491997847

2023

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2023) Surveying Corra Foundation’s Historical Relationship with British Banks, Empire and Atlantic Slavery. Documentation. Corra Foundation.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2023) Proslavery collaborations between British outport and metropole: the rise of the Glasgow-West India interest, 1775-1838. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51(4), pp. 601-643. (doi: 10.1080/03086534.2023.2166390)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Gibbs, Ewan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241 (2023) Scotland, Atlantic Slavery and the Scottish National Party: from colonised to coloniser in the political imagination. Nations and Nationalism, 29(3), pp. 922-938. (doi: 10.1111/nana.12925)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2023) The Gaelic Club of Glasgow: Gateway from the Scottish Highlands to the British Atlantic World, 1780–1838. In: Kehoe, S. Karly, Dalglish, Chris and Tindley, Annie (eds.) Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World Social Networks and Identities. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 148-169. ISBN 9781474494304

2022

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838. Series: New historical perspectives. University of London Press: London. ISBN 9781909646773 (doi: 10.14296/fyax1274)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) Acknowledging the legacies of slavery in British universities: slavery, abolition, and the University of Glasgow. In: Thomas, Rhondda Robinson (ed.) Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Campus History. Liverpool University Press, Clemson University Press: Clemson, pp. 35-60. ISBN 9781638040200 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2kcwnr4.6)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) Glasgow, Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: an Audit of Historic Connections and Modern Legacies. Project Report. Glasgow City Council.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography. History Compass, 20(1), e12707. (doi: 10.1111/hic3.12707)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) David Alston, Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean. Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 36, pp. 29-30. [Book Review]

2021

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2021) Matthew Boulton, William Murdock and James Watt: Appraisal for ‘Golden Boys’ Statue. Documentation. Birmingham Museums Trust.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2021) British Universities and transatlantic slavery: the University of Glasgow case. History Workshop Journal, 91(1), pp. 210-233. (doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbaa035)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2021) Henry Dundas: a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Scottish Historical Review, 100(2), pp. 218-248. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2021.0516)

2020

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) Finlay McKichan, Lord Seaforth: Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor. Innes Review, 71(2), pp. 286-293. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2020.0271)[Book Review]

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) Ludovic McLellan Mann and the Cambusnethan bog body. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 42(Suppl), pp. 71-84. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2020.0147)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) Addressing the absences in Teaching Scotland’s slavery past. In: Meer, Nasar, Akhtar, Smina and Davidson, Neil (eds.) Taking Stock: Race Equality in Scotland. Runnymede: London, pp. 29-33. ISBN 9781909546318

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mundell, Christopher and Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2020) Black runaways in eighteenth-century Britain. In: Gerzina, Gretchen (ed.) Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781789621600

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) The rise of James Watt: enlightenment, commerce, and industry in a British-Atlantic merchant city, 1736-74. In: Dick, Malcolm and Archer-Parré, Caroline (eds.) James Watt (1736-1819): Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 39-61. ISBN 9781789620818 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvwh8bc0.8)

2018

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Slavery, abolition and the University of Glasgow. Report and recommendations of the University of Glasgow History of Slavery Steering Committee. Other. University of Glasgow.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2018) Glasgow. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0301)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2018) John Lamont of Benmore: a Highland planter who died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad. Northern Scotland, 9(1), pp. 44-66. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2018.0144)

2016

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2016) Scots in the West Indies in the colonial period: a view from the archives. Scottish Archives, 22, pp. 7-16.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2016) The Scots Kirk of Colonial Kingston, Jamaica. Scottish Church History Society Records, 45,

2015

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2015) The Great Glasgow Merchant House of John Campbell, senior, And Co. In: Devine, T.M. (ed.) Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748698080

2014

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2014) Glasgow and the Caribbean commonwealth. In: Welsh, L. (ed.) Yonder Awa: Poetry from the Empire Cafe. Collective Architecture Ltd.: Glasgow, pp. 6-9. ISBN 9780957502611

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2014) 'Send back the money'!: The Free Church of Scotland and American slavery. Slavery and Abolition, 35(2), pp. 378-380. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2014.893692)[Book Review]

2013

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2013) A Glasgow-West India merchant house and the imperial dividend, 1779–1867. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 33(2), pp. 196-233. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2013.0077)

2012

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2012) One of Scotia's Sons of Toil: David Livingstone and Blantyre Mill. In: Worden, Sarah (ed.) David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy. NMS Enterprises: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781905267644

2011

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2011) Burns and the sugar plantocracy of Ayrshire. Scottish Historical Review, 90(1), pp. 154-156. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2011.0016)[Book Review]

2009

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2009) It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery. Royal Incoporation of Architects in Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781873190623

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Articles

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2024) Caribbean Slavery, British Capitalism and the Industrial Revolution(s)? Slavery and Abolition, 45(4), pp. 940-944. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2024.2407218)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2023) Proslavery collaborations between British outport and metropole: the rise of the Glasgow-West India interest, 1775-1838. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, 51(4), pp. 601-643. (doi: 10.1080/03086534.2023.2166390)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Gibbs, Ewan ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7487-7241 (2023) Scotland, Atlantic Slavery and the Scottish National Party: from colonised to coloniser in the political imagination. Nations and Nationalism, 29(3), pp. 922-938. (doi: 10.1111/nana.12925)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) Centring transatlantic slavery in Scottish historiography. History Compass, 20(1), e12707. (doi: 10.1111/hic3.12707)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2021) British Universities and transatlantic slavery: the University of Glasgow case. History Workshop Journal, 91(1), pp. 210-233. (doi: 10.1093/hwj/dbaa035)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2021) Henry Dundas: a ‘great delayer’ of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade. Scottish Historical Review, 100(2), pp. 218-248. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2021.0516)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) Ludovic McLellan Mann and the Cambusnethan bog body. Scottish Archaeological Journal, 42(Suppl), pp. 71-84. (doi: 10.3366/saj.2020.0147)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2018) John Lamont of Benmore: a Highland planter who died ‘in harness’ in Trinidad. Northern Scotland, 9(1), pp. 44-66. (doi: 10.3366/nor.2018.0144)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2016) Scots in the West Indies in the colonial period: a view from the archives. Scottish Archives, 22, pp. 7-16.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2016) The Scots Kirk of Colonial Kingston, Jamaica. Scottish Church History Society Records, 45,

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2013) A Glasgow-West India merchant house and the imperial dividend, 1779–1867. Journal of Scottish Historical Studies, 33(2), pp. 196-233. (doi: 10.3366/jshs.2013.0077)

Books

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) The Glasgow Sugar Aristocracy: Scotland and Caribbean Slavery, 1775–1838. Series: New historical perspectives. University of London Press: London. ISBN 9781909646773 (doi: 10.14296/fyax1274)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2009) It Wisnae Us: The Truth About Glasgow and Slavery. Royal Incoporation of Architects in Scotland: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781873190623

Book Sections

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2023) The Gaelic Club of Glasgow: Gateway from the Scottish Highlands to the British Atlantic World, 1780–1838. In: Kehoe, S. Karly, Dalglish, Chris and Tindley, Annie (eds.) Scottish Highlands and the Atlantic World Social Networks and Identities. Edinburgh University Press, pp. 148-169. ISBN 9781474494304

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) Acknowledging the legacies of slavery in British universities: slavery, abolition, and the University of Glasgow. In: Thomas, Rhondda Robinson (ed.) Rhetoric, Public Memory, and Campus History. Liverpool University Press, Clemson University Press: Clemson, pp. 35-60. ISBN 9781638040200 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctv2kcwnr4.6)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) Addressing the absences in Teaching Scotland’s slavery past. In: Meer, Nasar, Akhtar, Smina and Davidson, Neil (eds.) Taking Stock: Race Equality in Scotland. Runnymede: London, pp. 29-33. ISBN 9781909546318

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mundell, Christopher and Newman, Simon P. ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2020) Black runaways in eighteenth-century Britain. In: Gerzina, Gretchen (ed.) Britain's Black Past. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool. ISBN 9781789621600

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) The rise of James Watt: enlightenment, commerce, and industry in a British-Atlantic merchant city, 1736-74. In: Dick, Malcolm and Archer-Parré, Caroline (eds.) James Watt (1736-1819): Culture, Innovation and Enlightenment. Liverpool University Press: Liverpool, pp. 39-61. ISBN 9781789620818 (doi: 10.2307/j.ctvwh8bc0.8)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2018) Glasgow. In: Oxford Bibliographies Online: Atlantic History. Oxford University Press. (doi: 10.1093/OBO/9780199730414-0301)

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2015) The Great Glasgow Merchant House of John Campbell, senior, And Co. In: Devine, T.M. (ed.) Recovering Scotland's Slavery Past: The Caribbean Connection. Edinburgh University Press. ISBN 9780748698080

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2014) Glasgow and the Caribbean commonwealth. In: Welsh, L. (ed.) Yonder Awa: Poetry from the Empire Cafe. Collective Architecture Ltd.: Glasgow, pp. 6-9. ISBN 9780957502611

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2012) One of Scotia's Sons of Toil: David Livingstone and Blantyre Mill. In: Worden, Sarah (ed.) David Livingstone: Man, Myth and Legacy. NMS Enterprises: Edinburgh. ISBN 9781905267644

Book Reviews

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) David Alston, Slaves and Highlanders: Silenced Histories of Scotland and the Caribbean. Eighteenth-Century Scotland, 36, pp. 29-30. [Book Review]

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2020) Finlay McKichan, Lord Seaforth: Highland Landowner, Caribbean Governor. Innes Review, 71(2), pp. 286-293. (doi: 10.3366/inr.2020.0271)[Book Review]

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2014) 'Send back the money'!: The Free Church of Scotland and American slavery. Slavery and Abolition, 35(2), pp. 378-380. (doi: 10.1080/0144039X.2014.893692)[Book Review]

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2011) Burns and the sugar plantocracy of Ayrshire. Scottish Historical Review, 90(1), pp. 154-156. (doi: 10.3366/shr.2011.0016)[Book Review]

Edited Journals

de Lima, Philomena, Dhanda, Meena, Mcbride, Maureen, Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Sood, Arun (2024) Cross-Journal Special Edition: Race and Racism in Scotland. [Edited Journal]

Research Reports or Papers

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051, Mackillop, Andrew ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8325-6970 and Driscoll, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4943-2571 (2024) Surveying and Analysing Connections between Properties in Care and the British Empire, c.1600–1997. Other. Historic Environment Scotland.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2023) Surveying Corra Foundation’s Historical Relationship with British Banks, Empire and Atlantic Slavery. Documentation. Corra Foundation.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2022) Glasgow, Slavery and Atlantic Commerce: an Audit of Historic Connections and Modern Legacies. Project Report. Glasgow City Council.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2021) Matthew Boulton, William Murdock and James Watt: Appraisal for ‘Golden Boys’ Statue. Documentation. Birmingham Museums Trust.

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 and Newman, Simon ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8733-6778 (2018) Slavery, abolition and the University of Glasgow. Report and recommendations of the University of Glasgow History of Slavery Steering Committee. Other. University of Glasgow.

Conference Proceedings

Mullen, Stephen ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6768-3051 (2024) Historiographical afterlives of Capitalism and Slavery (1944) and the Williams theses. In: 47th ICOFOM Symposium: Transnational Island Museologies, St Andrews, UK, 05-07 Jun 2024, pp. 193-197. ISBN 9782491997847

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Grants

Research:

  • Hunterian Museum: ‘William Hunter’s Lanarkshire World’ (2024) (Co-P.I)
  • North Lanarkshire Council Museum/Museum Galleries Scotland:  ‘Decolonising North Lanarkshire Council’s Museums’ (2024) (P.I)
  • University of Glasgow Arts and Humanities Research Council Impact Acceleration Account: ‘Teaching Glasgow’s Slavery Past’ (in partnership with Glasgow City Council) (2024) (Co-P.I)
  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship: ‘Digitising the Stirling of Keir’s Jamaica Estate Records’ (in partnership with Glasgow City Archives) (2017) (P.I)
  • Royal Society of Edinburgh: ‘Scottish adventurers in Trinidad, 1797-1838’ (2016) (P.I)
  • Economic and Social Research Council 1+3 PhD Scholarship, The ‘Glasgow West India interest: integration, collaboration and exploitation in the British Atlantic World, 1776-1846’ (2010)                                                   

Commercial:

  • Corra Foundation: ‘Research into origins of Corra Foundation’s funds’ (2023) (P.I)
  • Historic Environment Scotland: ‘Properties in Care and the British Empire’ (2022) (Co-I)
  • Glasgow City Council: ‘The City of Glasgow and Transatlantic Slavery, c.1600–1838’ (2019) (P.I)

Supervision

I welcome supervision enquiries on topics related to Atlantic slavery and abolition in the English/Scottish/British Atlantic worlds across the long Eighteenth Century (c.1690-1834/8) as well as the legacies, aftermath and consequences of slavery up to present day. I would also be happy to supervise dissertations on the social and economic histories of 18th and 19th century Scotland. I have research expertise in assessing the legacies of Atlantic slavery in Great Britain up to present day; in institutions (including the University of Glasgow) across cities (such as Glasgow), and the nation broadly. I have researched, advised and consulted how politicians, policy makers, curators, museum professionals and heritage organizations develop strategies to address the history, legacies and representations of slavery in Scottish and British contexts.

Current Doctoral Supervision:

  • Scott MacFie, ‘Estate Management and Improvement in South-West Scotland, c.1750-c.1840’ (September 2023)
  • Eilidh Finlayson, ‘Gendering Scottish-Atlantic Slavery: female beneficiaries of transatlantic wealth, 1770-1838’ (September 2024)
  • Finlayson, Eilidh
    Gendering Scottish-Atlantic Slavery: female beneficiaries of transatlantic wealth, 1770-1838

Teaching

Sub-Honours:

  • 1A Scotland’s Millennium: Kingdom, Union and Nation, c. 1000–2014
  • 2B Global History

Honours:

  • Race and Slavery in the Eighteenth Century British Atlantic World (Convener)
  • Remembering Britain's Slavery Past: History, Memory, and Memorialisation (Convener)

Masters:

  • MSc/MA Reparative Justice

Additional information

  • Economic and Social History Society of Scotland’s Research Essay Prize (2011)
  • University of Glasgow’s Engaged Early Career Researcher of the Year Prize (2016)
  • Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture: Lapidus Initiative Digital Collections Fellowship (2017)
  • Le Mans Université: Visiting Professorship (2022)
  • Scottish Historical Review Trust: Trustee (2022)
  • History Scotland: Editorial Board (2022)
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2023)