Graeme Morton (historian)
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 in economic and social history and sociology in 1989, and a doctorate of philosophy at the University of Edinburgh in 1993; his doctoral thesis was entitled . He lectured at Edinburgh from 1992 until 2004, when he was appointed to the new 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 remained an Adjunct Professor of History at Guelph.Research
Morton's research interests include Scottish national identity and nationalism, as well as the urban history of Scotland, and civil society and associational activity. His published works include:
- William Wallace: A National Tale.
- Irish and Scottish Encounters with Indigenous Peoples: Canada, the United States, Australia and New Zealand.
- The Scottish Diaspora.
- Ourselves and Others: Scotland, 1832–1914.
- A History of Everyday Life in Scotland, vol. 3, 1800–1900.
- Ties of Bluid, Kin and Countrie: Scottish Associational Culture in the Diaspora.
- Civil Society, Associations and Urban Places: Class, Nation and Culture in Nineteenth-Century Europe.
- William Wallace: Man and Myth.
- Unionist Nationalism: Governing Urban Scotland, 1830–1860.
- Locality, Community and Nation.
