Core Faculty and Committee Members
Dr. Graeme Morton
Scottish Studies Foundation Chair
gmorton@uoguelph.caGraeme Morton, MA & PhD (Edinburgh) is the inaugural holder of the Scottish Studies Foundation Chair and is Professor of History at the University of Guelph. Created in 2004 following a nineteen-year campaign, the Scottish Studies Foundation Chair is the first privately endowed Chair of Scottish Studies in North America. Graeme Morton was previously lecturer and senior lecturer in Economic and Social History at the University of Edinburgh (1992 to 2004). His teaching and research interests include Scottish national identity and nationalism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; civil society and urban history in the nineteenth century, and the Victorian cult of William Wallace. Graeme Morton is editor of the International Review of Scottish Studies. He is currently working on Ourselves and Others: Scotland 1832-1914 and editing, with Trevor Griffiths, Everyday Life in Scotland, vol. 3: 1800-1900 (both contracted to Edinburgh University Press).
Dr. Elizabeth Ewan, History
eewan@uoguelph.caElizabeth Ewan is University Research Chair and Professor of History/Scottish Studies. She received her BA (Hons) in History at Queen’s University. She spent the third year of her undergraduate degree at St Andrews University where she became fascinated with medieval Scottish history. She returned to Scotland to do her PhD at the University of Edinburgh on the social history of fourteenth-century Scottish towns, a study which drew on both historical and archaeological evidence. She taught at the Universities of Western Ontario and Victoria before joining the History Dept and Scottish Studies at Guelph.
In the past decade, her research has focussed on Scottish gender history, especially for the period before 1600. In collaboration with Maureen Meikle, she edited a collection of essays on Women in Scotland c.1100-c.1750 (Tuckwell Press, 1999). She has been working with Women’s History Scotland (formerly the Scottish Women’s History Network) as a co-editor of The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women (Edinburgh University Press, 2006), a collection of biographies of over 800 Scottish women. Several of her current and past graduate students have contributed entries. Current externally-funded research projects include a biography of a late medieval Edinburgh woman, and a study of gender and assault in sixteenth-century Scottish towns; the latter project has involved archival research in Scotland by doctoral students. She has also created WISH (Women in Scottish History), an online bibliography of works on Scottish women (http://www.womeninscottishhistory.org/)Several undergraduate and graduate students have been involved in this project.
Dr. Ewan supervises graduate students in the areas of medieval and early modern Scottish and British history, especially in the areas of gender, urban and social history, and crime. Where possible and when funding permits, she encourages students with interests in these areas to work as research assistants in projects associated with gender in Scottish history. She is also frequently the professor for the Topics in Scottish History course offered at the graduate level. This course introduces students to some of the topics and historiography of Scottish History before 1707. Specific topics are determined by students' research interests. The course also provides a practical introduction (including palaeography) to the use of archival medieval and early modern sources, using the resources of the university's extensive Scottish Studies collection.
Dr. Kevin J. James, History
kjames@uoguelph.caKevin James earned a BA and MA from McGill University and a PhD in Social History from the University of Edinburgh in 2000. He was convenor of Scottish Studies from 2002-05 and teaches a broad range of courses at the undergraduate level, including two of the core courses, HIST*1010, ‘Europe in the Age of Expansion’, and HIST*2450, ‘Historical Methods’. He also teaches HIST*2500, ‘Britain and the World since 1600’. In HIST*4040/50, ‘Topics in Scottish History’, a fourth-year seminar class, students have explored immigration to Scotland, urban Scotland and Scottish emigration in the nineteenth century. At the graduate level, Dr. James has advised students researching nineteenth-century Scotlland and Ireland. His current research focuses on the economic and social history of tourism in Ireland: he is particularly interested in the perspectives and experiences of the Scottish tourist and traveler in late-nineteenth century Ireland.
Dr. Linda Mahood, History
lmahood@uoguelph.ca