Graeme Morton (historian)

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Graeme Morton is a Scottish academic historian who has occupied the Chair of Modern History at the University of Dundee since 2013.

Career

Morton completed a master of arts degree (MA) in economic and social history and sociology in 1989, and a doctorate of philosophy (PhD) at the University of Edinburgh in 1993; his doctoral thesis was entitled Unionist-nationalism: the historical construction of Scottish national identity, Edinburgh, 1830–1860 . He lectured at Edinburgh from 1992 until 2004, when he was appointed to the inaugural Scottish Studies Foundation Chair at the University of Guelph; while in this post, he was Director of the university's Centre for Scottish Studies. In 2013, he returned to Scotland as Professor of Modern History at the University of Dundee; he remains an adjunct professor of history at the University of Guelph. ^{[1] [2]}

Research

Morton's research interests include Scottish national identity and nationalism (including the significance of William Wallace), as well as the urban history of Scotland, and civil society and associational activity. ^[2] His published works include: ^[1]

• William Wallace: A National Tale (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2014).
• (edited with D.A. Wilson) Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand (Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2013).
• (with T. Bueltmann and A. Hinson) The Scottish Diaspora (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013).
• Ourselves and Others: Scotland, 1832–1914 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2012).
• (edited with T. Griffiths) A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, vol. 3, 1800–1900 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2010).
• (edited with T. Bueltmann and A. Hinson) Ties of Bluid, Kin and Countrie: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora (Guelph: Centre for Scottish Studies, 2009).
• (edited with B. de Vries and R. J. Morris) Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe (Stroud: Ashgate, 2006).
• William Wallace: Man and Myth (Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2001).
• Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–1860 (East Linton: Tuckwell Press, 1999).
• (with A. Morris) Locality, Community and Nation (London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1998).

References

1. "Graeme Morton", University of Dundee. Retrieved 12 August 2017.
2. "Graeme Morton", University of Guelph. Retrieved 12 August 2017.