Welcome to the School of History
With over forty full time members of staff researching and teaching on European, American and Asian history from the dawn of the Middle Ages to the present day, the School of History at the University of St Andrews has one of the finest faculty and diverse teaching programmes of any School of History in the English speaking world. The School boasts expertise in Mediaeval and Modern History, from Scotland to Byzantium and the Americas to the Middle East and South Asia.Thematic interests include religious history, urban history, transnationalism, historiography and nationalism. The School of History prides itself on small group teaching and tutorials allowing for in depth study and supervision tailored to secure the best from each student. Cutting edge research combined with teaching excellence offer a dynamic and intellectually stimulating environment for the study of History.
For a full list staff and their areas of expertise please click here. Students are encouraged over a four year course to explore their interests before focussing in the final two years on specialist pathways. For our range of Undergraduate course please see here. We also offer a wide range of programmes at postgraduate level from Environmental History to the History of the Book. For the full range of our programmes see here.
Latest News
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 Robert Lehman Fellowship
Dr Emily Michelson has been awarded the Robert Lehman Fellowship at Villa I Tatti, The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. She will spend the 2013-2014 academic year in Florence along with 14 other fellows from around the world. I Tatti offers Fellows the precious time they need to pursue their studies with a minimum of obligations and interruptions together with a maximum of scholarly resources. While at I Tatti, Emily plans to complete the bulk of the research for a project examining Jewish conversion to Catholicism in the late sixteenth century. Her research will use sermons, diaries, treatises, and other sources available in Florence and Rome to examine why Jewish conversion was especially meaningful in Rome in this period, as the city became a centre of a re-invented Catholicism.
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Honours Pre-Advising
Honours Pre-advising for students who want to take Honours modules in the School of History in 2013-14 will take place between Wednesday 10 April and Thursday 18 April 2013 (4.30 pm). For more information, please visit the dedicated Pre-Advising website.
Prospective Honours students are strongly encouraged to attend the Information meetings that will take place on Wednesday 10 April 2013 (Week 9) in School II:
- Prospective Junior Honours - 1 pm
- Prospective Senior Honours - 2 pm
If you have any questions that are not covered in the Pre-Advising website, you can contact the History Honours Adviser, Dr Kostas Zafeiris (asohist@st-andrews.ac.uk). |
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 Justine Firnhaber-Baker wins AHRC early career fellowship
Dr Justine Firnhaber-Baker has won an early career AHRC fellowship to fund work over the next two years on a project entitled ‘The Jacquerie and Late Mediaeval Revolts’. The fellowship will allow her to spend most of the next two years doing research for and writing a monograph on a peasants’ revolt known as the Jacquerie that took place in northern France in 1358. She will carry out much of the research for that book in the national and regional archives of France and in the Bibliothèque nationale. The fellowship also provides funding to hold two conferences on the phenomenon of late medieval revolt and popular protest at St Andrews in 2014 and 2015. (An initial conference on this topic is being held next week, 19-20 April, with the support of the School of History and the St Andrews Institute for Mediaeval Studies.)
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British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship
Dr Bridget Heal has been awarded a British Academy Mid-Career Fellowship for her project on 'Lutheran Visual Culture during the Age of the Renaissance and Baroque.' The project asks how and why German Lutheranism – a confession that of course derived its significance from the promulgation of the Word – came to value images so highly. The research covers the period from the mid-sixteenth century, an era of intense doctrinal debate following Luther’s death, to the mid-eighteenth century. By then the role of images in Lutheran religious culture had been affirmed by the construction of splendid monuments such as Dresden’s Frauenkirche. The project seeks to illuminate the ways in which religious identity was constituted and expressed during the early modern period, and to draw attention to the blending and cross-fertilization of religious traditions that the study of religious leaders and institutions tends to obscure. |
Professor Andrew Pettegree elected as a Vice President of the Royal Historical Society.
Professor Steve Murdoch's latest publication included in Choice Magazine's 2012 Outstanding Academic Titles List
USTC project wins further £1 million grant
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