The School of History, Classics and Archaeology has a taught Master's programme drawing on the expertise of the scholars of the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies and others within the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, MSc in Diaspora and Migration History. This is a one-year degree which provides, potentially, a qualification for embarking on a PhD.
The MSc by Research in History and the PhD / MPhil in History also provide opportunities to study topics related to Diaspora and Migration.
Initial enquiries about graduate study should be emailed to pg.shc@ed.ac.uk.
Scholarships
Two PhD scholarships are attached to the Centre. The William R McFarlane PhD Scholarship and the Scottish Government PhD Studentship.
Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop
The interdisciplinary Diaspora Studies Workshop launched by the Scottish Centre for Diaspora Studies in 2009 is open to all MSc and PhD students working in the field of diaspora and migration.
Diaspora Studies Graduate Workshop – further details
Current Students
PhD
Ms Sonia Baker MSc, Edinburgh: 'Scots in eighteenth century Grenada: a study of the life and times of Ninian Home (1732-1795), plantation and slave owner - family, friends, networks and other connections’
Ms Sarah McCaslin (McFarlane scholar) MSc, Edinburgh: '"Great Gathering of the Clans": Scottish Clubs and Societies in Scotland and America, 1750-c.1850'
Andrew Phemister MPhil, Cambridge: 'Henry George and the Irish Diaspora'
Oisin Plumb (McFarlane scholar) MSc, Edinburgh: 'Swimming
Against the Tide? - Early Medieval Migrants from Scotland to Ireland'
David Ritchie MSc, Edinburgh: '"They do not become Good Scotsmen", A Political History of the anti-Irish campaign in Scotland 1919-1939'
Iain Watson: 'Scottish Migration Myths; their origins, durability and validity – a comparative study of the sojourning migrant Scots of Hong Kong and the settled Scots diaspora of New Zealand'
MSc by Research
Patrick Watt BA, Open University: 'Scottish-influenced battalions of the Canadian militia in the Great War'
MSc in Diaspora and Migration History
Katie Forbes BA, Cambridge
Claire Johnston MA(Hons), St Andrews
Former Students
PhD
Charles Bradford Bow, PhD, 2012: 'The End of the Scottish Enlightenment in its Transatlantic Context: Moral education in the thought of Dugald Stewart and Samuel Stanhope Smith, 1790-1812'
Matthew Dziennik, PhD, 2011: 'The Fatal Land: War, Empire, and the Highland Soldier in British America, 1756-1783'
Ms Lindsey Flewelling, PhD, 2012: 'Ulster Unionism and America, 1880-1920'
David Hesse, PhD, 2011: 'Warrior Dreams: Playing Scotsmen in mainland Europe, 1945-2010'
Mario Varricchio, PhD, 2012: 'From the Mother Country: Oral Narratives of British Emigration to the United States, 1860-1940'
MSc by Research in History
Ms Sonia Baker MSc, 2010: 'Scottish Planters in the British West Indies, c.1760-1840'
Ms Sarah McCaslin MSc, 2010: '"Most harmonious agreeable and happy corporation in the B[ritish] Kingdom": Scottish Patriotism in Eighteenth Century Scottish Clubs and Societies'
MSc in Diaspora and Migration History
Dylan Clark, MSc, 2012
Joe Henry, MSc, 2012
Megan Nicholson, MSc, 2012
Iain Watson, MSc, 2012
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