Alexander Murdoch PhD, FrHistSoc
Senior Lecturer; Scottish History
Room 00M.13, William Robertson Wing, Old Medical School, Teviot Place
Telephone: 0131 650 4033Office hours: Currently on leave
Affiliated research centres
Scottish Centre for Diaspora StudiesBiography
Formerly Co-director and resident researcher for the Scottish Records Program of the North Carolina Colonial Records Project (administered by the Division of Archives and History of the State of North Carolina), 1986-1990, later Principal Lecturer in History and American Studies at what is now the University of Northampton, appointed at the university in 1995.
He is an Associate Editor of and contributor to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography; and a member of the editorial board for the online edition of the Old and New Statistical Accounts maintained by the Edina Project based at Edinburgh University Library.
Past external posts and offices in learned societies include external examiner for Scottish History honours courses at the University of St Andrews, 2001-4; Book Review Editor, Scottish Historical Review, 1998-2002; Trustee, Scottish Historical Review Trust, 1997-1999; Member of Council, Economic & Social History Society of Scotland, 1997-2001; Member of Council, Scottish Church History Society, 1996- to present; Member of Council, Scottish History Society, 1996-1999. External Examiner for postgraduate dissertations submitted to the Universities of Aberdeen, Dundee, Glasgow, St Andrews and the University of the Highlands and Islands.