PhDs Awarded
2021
Louise Heren: An Ugly Epoch: male sexual violence in interwar Scotland
Supervisors: Rab Houston, Bill Knox and James Nott
Sarah Leith: ‘Tied up with pink ribbons’: Repression, counterculture and Scottish national identity, c.1926-1967
Supervisor: Malcolm Petrie and Colin Kidd
Perin Westerhof Nyman: Cotes of Arms: Heraldic Dress and Interpersonal Relationships in Late Medieval Scotland
Supervisors: Katie Stevenson and Michael Brown
Christin Simons: International reactions to and interaction with the Scandinavian Asiatic Companies
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
Jospeh Wagner: Into the Oceans: Scottish Long-Distance Trade and Colonisation in the Seventeenth Century
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
2020
Morag Allan Campbell: ‘This distressing malady’: Childbirth and Mental Illness in Nineteenth-Century Scotland
Supervisors: Sarah Easterby-Smith and Aileen Fyfe
Paul Malgrati: Robert Burns in Scottish Politics (1914-2014)
Supervisors: Colin Kidd and Robert Crawford
Chelsea Anne Reutcke: Catholic print networks in Restoration England, 1660-1688
Supervisor: Jacqueline Rose
Cody Wyant: The intellectual origins and social landscapes of Patrick Geddes, ca.1880-1889
Supervisor: Colin Kidd
2019
Andrew Paterson Carter: The Episcopal Church of Scotland, 1660-1685
Supervisors: Roger Mason and Jacqueline Rose
2018
Piotr Potocki: The Catholic Church and Scottish Politics, c.1878-c.1939
Supervisor: Colin Kidd
2017
Adam Grimshaw, Anglo-Swedish Commercial Activity and Commodity Exchange in the 17th Century
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
Morvern French, Flemish Material Culture in Medieval Scotland
Supervisor: Katie Stevenson
Amy Eberlin, Trade and Diplomacy Between Scotland and Flanders, 1320 – 1513
Supervisor: Katie Stevenson
Sean Murphy, Broadly speaking : Scots language and British imperialism
Supervisor: Colin Kidd
2016
Darren Scott Layne, Spines of the thistle : the popular constituency of the Jacobite Rising in 1745-6
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
2015
Claire Hawes, Community and public authority in later fifteenth-century Scotland
Supervisor: Michael Brown
Elizabeth H Hanna, Arthur and the Scots : narratives, nations, and sovereignty in the later Middle Ages / Elizabeth H. Hanna.
Supervisors: Katie Stevenson and Rhiannon Purdie
Neil McGuigan, Neither Scotland nor England : Middle Britain, c.850-1150
Supervisor: Alex Woolf
2014
Cynthia Ann Fry, Diplomacy & deception : King James VI of Scotland’s foreign relations with Europe (c. 1584-1603)
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
Malcolm Petrie, Identities of Class, Locations of Radicalism : Popular Politics in Inter-War Scotland
Supervisor: Bill Knox
Elisabeth Smith, To Walk Upon the Grass : the Impact of the University of St Andrews’ Lady Literate in Arts, 1877-1892
Supervisor: David Allan
Claire McLoughlin, Scottish Commercial Contacts with the Iberian World, 1581-1730
Supervised by: Steve Murdoch
Martyna Mirecka, “Monarchy as it shoul be”? : British Perceptions of Poland-Lithuania in the Long Seventeenth Century
Supervisor: Roger Mason
2013
Bess Rhodes, The Reformation in the Burgh of St Andrews: Property, Piety, and Power
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Andy Drinnon, The Apocalyptic Tradition in Seventeenth-Century Scotland
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Elizabeth Tapscott, Propaganda and Persuasion in the Early Scottish Reformation, c.1527-1557
Supervisor: Roger Mason
2012
Adam Marks, England, The English and the Thirty Years’ War (1618-1648)
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
2011
Isla Woodman, Education and Episcopacy: The Universities of Scotland in the Fifteenth Century Supervisor: Roger Mason
2010
Siobhan Talbott, An Alliance Ended? Franco-Scottish Commercial Relations, 1560-1707
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
2009
Steven Reid, Andrew Melville and the Universities of Scotland
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Kathrin Zickermann, Scots in Northern Germany and the “British” community in Hamburg, c.1603-1720
Supervisor: Steve Murdoch
2008
Elizabeth Black, Older People in Scotland: the Family, Work and Retirement, and the Welfare State From 1845-1999
Supervisor: Bill Knox
John McCallum, The Post-Reformation Church in Fife, 1560-c.1640
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Claire Webb, The ‘Gude Regent’? A Diplomatic Perspective upon the Earl of Moray, Mary, Queen of Scots and the Scottish Regency 1567-1570
Supervisor: Roger Mason
2007
Mark Coleman Wallace, Scottish Freemasonry, 1725-1810
Supervisor: David Allan
Mark Towsey, Reading the Scottish Enlightenment: Libraries, Readers and Intellectual Culture in Provincial Scotland, c.1750-c.1820
Supervisor: David Allan
2006
Janet V. Deatherage, The Impact of the Union of 1707 on Early Eighteenth-Century Fife Electoral Politics, 1707-1747
Supervisor: David Allan
Chris Brown, We are Command of Gentilmen: Service and Support among the Lesser Nobility of Lothian during the Wars of Independence, 1296-1341
Supervisors: Roger Mason and Norman Reid
2005
Melissa Pollock, Franco-Scottish Politics: Crown and Nobility, 1160-1296
Supervisor: Michael Brown
2003
E. Calvin Beisner, His Majesty’s Advocate : Sir James Stewart of Goodtrees (1635-1713) and Covenanter Resistance Theory under the Restoration Monarchy
Supervisor: Roger Mason
2002
Margaret J. Beckett, The Political Works of John Lesley, Bishop of Ross (1527-96)
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Gillian H. MacIntosh, The Scottish Parliament in the Restoration Era, 1660-1681
Supervisor: Keith Brown
Esther Mijers, Scotland and the United Provinces, c.1680-1730: A Study in Intellectual and Educational Relations
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Alison G. Muir, The Covenanters in Fife, c.1610-1689: Religious Dissent in the Local Community
Supervisor: Keith Brown
Derek John Patrick, People and Parliament in Scotland, 1689-1702
Supervisor: Keith Brown
Alison A. B. McQueen, The Origins and Development of the Scottish Parliament, 1249-1329
Supervisor: Michael Brown
1999
Michael A. Penman, The Kingship of David II Supervisor: Dr Norman Macdougall
Pamela E. Ritchie, Dynasticism and Diplomacy: The Political Career of Marie de Guise in Scotland, 1548-1560
Supervisor: Roger Mason
Roland J. Tanner, The Political Role of the Three Estates in Parliament and General Council in Scotland, 1424-1488
Supervisor: Norman Macdougall
1998
Stephanie Malone Thorson, Adam Abell’s ‘The Roit or Quheill of Tyme’: An Edition
Supervisor: Norman Macdougall