History centre announces new staff members
Two new historians are due to join the lecturing staff at the University of the Highlands (UHI) Centre for History before the end of the year.
Dr Jim MacPherson’s research looks at Irish women at home and abroad, particularly the experience of migration, identity formation, and women’s public activism in Britain, Ireland and throughout the British world, while Dr Kathrin Zickermann is a specialist in Scottish, British and continental maritime and economic history during the early modern period.
Dr MacPherson arrives at the Centre having been a research fellow in the John Hume Institute for Global Irish Studies and the School of History and Archives, University College Dublin. He completed his PhD at Birkbeck College, University of London, in 2004 and has previously lectured in modern British and Irish history at the Universities of Leeds and Bristol.
Currently a research fellow at the Institute for Historical Research in London, Dr Zickermann completed her PhD at the University of St Andrews in 2009.
The UHI Centre for History will, however, be bidding farewell to lecturer Dr Karly Kehoe who leaves in December for a new lectureship in modern history at Glasgow Caledonian University.
The University of the Highlands and Islands Centre for History offers a growing range of undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, including the new online master’s course in the history of the Highlands and Islands, and is currently conducting research into topics including the social history of Scottish forestry, slavery in the Highlands, the Kildonan clearances, wills and testaments left by the Scots in early modern Poland, and the history of the Moray Firth.
Undergraduate teaching from the Dornoch-based UHI Centre for History is available across the Highlands and Islands through the university’s academic partners and learning centres. Ailsa Raeburn, one of its first Scottish history graduates, studied at a learning centre in Lochgilphead, Argyll. Now enrolled on the centre’s master’s degree in the history of the Highlands and Islands, Ailsa was the first winner of the Professor James Hunter Dissertation Prize earlier this year for her work on lordship and control in medieval Argyll.
Dr David Worthington, acting director of the history centre, said: “We are delighted with our progress since the centre was formed in 2005. Dr Kehoe’s time with us has been rewarding for all concerned, I think. We’re sad to see her leave and wish her all the best in her new role. Nevertheless we’re really happy that two new colleagues of such high calibre will be joining us before the end of the calendar year.”
The Centre for History offers a number of postgraduate and undergraduate courses.
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