Dr Sarah Leith

Associate Lecturer in the History of Scotland and the Wider World, c.1707-c.1914

Researcher profile

Email
sjhl@st-andrews.ac.uk

 

Biography

A cultural historian of modern Scotland and the wider world, my research lies at the intersection of politics and culture, with particular interests in Scottish identity, print culture and environmental thought. My articles have been published within Northern Scotland and the Scottish Literary Review, and my first monograph is under contract with Edinburgh University Press.

From 2024 to 2025, I am co-investigator for a Royal Society of Edinburgh-funded Small Research Grant project. Additionally, I am a member of the Steering Group of the AHRC-funded Scottish Magazines Network.

I have been Communications Manager for the Institute of Scottish Historical Research since 2018. As Communications Officer for the School of History, I was the editor of the 2023 and 2024 editions of the School's alumni magazine, The St Andrews Historian.

Previously, I have been employed as a Lecturer and Research Assistant at the University of Glasgow, working within its School of Critical Studies and its Centre for Robert Burns Studies.

Teaching

Sub-honours

MO2008: Scotland, Britain and Empire, c.1707-2000

HI2001: History as a Discipline: Development and Key Concepts

HI1801: Scotland's History: Kingdom, Nation, People

Honours

MO3264: Microhistories of a Global Nation: Scotland, c.1707-c.1843 (module co-ordinator)

HI4101: Communication in History (module co-ordinator)

HI4999: Honours Dissertation in History

HI4998: Honours Project in History

Postgraduate

SC5204: Building Britain: The Construction and Deconstruction of Britishness, 1707-2000

MO5152: Global Times - Plural Spaces 2

HI5107: Directed Reading in Transnational History

MO5999: Dissertation for MLitt Programmes

Selected publications

 

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