Scotland and the Wider World
Project Personnel
Full Time Staff:
Steve Murdoch is Professor in History at the University of St Andrews. His research interests include migration from the British Isles in the seventeenth century and all forms of interaction between early modern Scotland and the wider world. He has published extensively on the subject and his major publications include: Britain, Denmark-Norway and the House of Stuart 1603-1660 (East Linton, Tuckwell Press, 2003) and Network North: Scottish Kin Commercial and Covert Associations in Northern Europe, 1603-1746 (Leiden, Brill, 2006). The Terror of the Seas: Scottish Maritime Warfare 1513 - 1713 (Leiden, Brill, 2010). His major edited collections include Scotland and the Thirty Years War, 1618-1648 (Leiden, Brill, 2001) and with Alexia Grosjean, Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (Leiden, Brill, 2005). Also with Alexia Grosjean he has produced the widely acclaimed Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database
Honorary Staff:
Dr Alexia Grosjean is an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews. Her research interests focus on early modern Scottish-Scandinavian connections with an emphasis on the 1560-1650 period. She has produced a number of publications on the subject of which the major contributions must include hugely influential monograph An Unofficial Alliance: Scotland and Sweden, 1569-1654 (Leiden, Brill, 2003) and as a co-editor with Steve Murdoch, Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (Leiden, Brill, 2005). Also with Steve Murdoch she has produced the widely acclaimed Scotland, Scandinavia and Northern European Biographical Database
Dr Kathrin Zickermann, finished her doctoral thesis within the Scotland and the Wider World Project in 2009. This focused on the commercial, maritime and military relations between Scotland and the Northwest German cities and territories (Bremen and Hamburg, the Swedish duchies of Bremen and Verden, the various counties of Holstein (partially under Danish control) and the duchy of Braunschweig-Lüneburg.) The core of her research identified the immigration of Scots and the establishment of commercial networks within this region rather than an individual territory, highlighting contact across political borders. It revealed that the region differed significantly from other places in Northern Europe in that it did not maintain an ethnically distinct Scottish community, enforcing and encouraging interaction with the indigenous German population and other foreigners such as the English merchants in Hamburg. By comparing the Scots to other migrant groups such as the French Huguenots and Dutch Lutherans and Calvinists her research also contributed significantly to our understanding of the importance of the region to foreign exiles and expatriates and of the coherence of the region itself.
Upon completing her doctorate, Kathrin won the Alan Pearsall Fellow in Naval and Maritime History 2010--2011 at the Institute for Historical Research. Upon completion of that fellowship Kathrin was rewarded with a permanent post at the University of the Highlands and Islands, Centre of History. She continues her work on Maritime History and remains firmly integrated into the 'Battle of Wittstock' project as an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of St Andrews.
Dr David Dobson is an Honorary Research fellow at the University of St Andrews. His research interests are mainly Scottish emigration and maritime Scotland between 1600 and 1800. He is the author or compiler of several books including Scottish Trade with Colonial Charleston 1683-1783 (Glasgow 2009), Scottish Emigration to Colonial America, 1607-1785 (Athens, Georgia., 1994, 2004), Ships from Scotland to America, 1628-1828 (Baltimore, Maryland., 1998), and The Original Scots Colonists of Early America, 1628-1828 (Baltimore, Maryland., 1988). He has also contributed to The Atlas of Scottish History to 1707 (Edinburgh, 1996), Scotland and the Americas, 1650-1939 (Edinburgh, 2002), and Scottish Communities Abroad in the Early Modern Period (Leiden, Netherlands, 2005)
