Social and gender history
The School of Historical Studies contains a large number of social historians, ranging in expertise from monasticism in late antiquity to modern labour movements. Many collaborate methodologically or thematically across wide chronological frameworks. The cluster contains several areas of particular strength, including post-1800 British social history and women's and gender history. Members of this cluster work with the University of Strathclyde to offer a joint MSc in Social History and an associated seminar series. Gender historians in this cluster have been involved in collaborative publishing projects with Women's History Scotland. A large number of funded postgraduates are found in this cluster, some of whom meet regularly in a gender history reading group.
Members of this cluster have formed the Centre for Gender History in collaboration with gender historians at the University of Strathclyde. This Centre hosted the 2008 conference of the Women's History Network in Glasgow.
Staff and Research Interests
Prospective postgraduate students are invited to contact members of this cluster to discuss your research interests.
| Professor Lynn Abrams | Women's and gender history in modern Europe; history of childhood and child welfare |
| Dr. Karin Bowie | Popular politics and public opinion in early modern Scotland and Europe |
| Dr. Maud Bracke | European communism and the European left in the 20th century, with a focus on Italy and France |
| Professor Anne Crowther | Social history of medicine in Britain, 18th-20th centuries; history of crime and social policy in 19th-20th century Britain |
| Professor Sam Cohn | History of the plague; women's experiences in Renaissance Italy |
| Professor Marguerite Dupree | Social history of medicine, 19th-20th centuries; family, demographic and urban history; industry-state relations in the 20th century |
| Dr. Marilyn Dunn | Christian asceticism and monasticism to the ninth century, including female asceticism and monasticism |
| Dr. Rosemary Elliott | Medical and social history in the 20th century; gender and oral history |
| Dr. Mark Freeman | Modern British social history, especially rural history, social investigation, poverty, the settlement movement and modern British Quakerism |
| Professor Eleanor Gordon | British/Scottish 19th century social history, gender history and history of the family |
| Dr. Annmarie Hughes | Scottish gender relations between the wars and the history of domestic violence in Scotland, c.1900-1945 |
| Dr. Irene Maver | Scottish urban history and politics, 18th-20th centuries |
| Dr. Marina Moskowitz | Material culture and American middle class culture |
| Dr. Thomas Munck | The European Enlightenment; the French Revolution; enlightened reform and public opinion in later 18th century Denmark; social history of music and artistic patronage in early modern Europe |
| Professor Simon Newman | Work and working culture in the Atlantic world; society, class and popular political culture in revolution-era America; the nature of the American revolution |
| Dr. Jim Phillips | Social class relations and industrial relations in 19th and 20th century Britain |
| Dr. Alexandra Shepard | Social status and gender/masculinity in early modern Britain; social history of the law |
| Professor Julia Smith | Taught Postgraduate Convenor, Dept of History; hagiography and saints' cults, politics and gender history in late antique and early medieval Europe |
| Dr Donald Spaeth | Lay-clerical relations and popular religion in 17th century England; computer-based methodologies in research and teaching |