Dr Stuart Salmon (BA (Hons), PhD)

Tutor; History

Biography

Background

Role

I am a part-time tutor and have taught here since 2012.  I also teach at the University of Stirling and have previously taught at the University of Dundee

I was born in Argyllshire and brought up in Kinross. I have a BA and PhD from the University of Stirling. My PhD was on the American Revolutionary War. My research interests are Colonial and Revolutionary America.

Qualifications

BA (Hons), PhD, AF HEA

Undergraduate teaching

Current teaching:

Early Modern Worlds,Historian's Toolkit and History of the United States.

I have recently taught on Introduction to Historiography.

I have previously taught American History 2, and Pre-Revolutionary America

Postgraduate teaching

I have previously taught The Intellectual History of the American Revolution.

Research summary

I research Colonial America and the American Revolutionary War era.  My PhD research was on Loyalist soldiers in the American Revolutionary War and examined their motivation and their social histories.

For many years I worked as a researcher and latterly assistant editor on the Bernard Papers Project. I have worked on other research projects including one on Belgian Refugees in the First World War. 

Current research interests

I am currently researching British Officers who served in the American Revolutionary War and presented a paper on them at the 2022 conference of the Eighteenth Century Society of Scottish Studies.

Project activity

I was a researcher and latterly assistant editor on The Bernard Papers Project run by Dr Colin Nicolson at the University of Stirling. The project produced six volumes and was funded by the Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 

I worked as a researcher on the Belgian Refugees project at the University of Stirling. I have worked as a freelance researcher on the Papers of Thomas Hutchinson.

Past project grants

Jacob M. Price Fellowship, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan, 2002-03.

Books

Assistant Editor on Nicolson, C (ed.), The Papers of Francis Bernard, Governor of Colonial Massachusetts 1760-1769, Vol. 6, (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA, 2022).

Research assistant on Nicolson, C (ed.), The Papers of Francis Bernard, Governor of Colonial Massachusetts 1760-1769, Vol. 1, (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA), 2008; Vol. 2, (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA), 2012., Vol. 3 (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA), 2013. Vol 4 and Vol. 5, (Publications of the Colonial Society of Massachusetts, Boston, MA), 2015.

Chapters

‘Using the Internet to Teach the Age of Revolutions’ with Ben Marsh, in Marsh, B (ed), Understanding and Teaching Age of Revolutions, (University of Wisconsin Press) 2017.

 

Reviews

British Flag Officers in the French Wars, 1793-1815 Admirals’ Lives, by John Morrow, reviewed by Stuart Salmon, Journal of Military History, May 2019.

‘A Social History of British Naval Officers, 1775-1815, by Evan Wilson, reviewed by Stuart Salmon’, Journal of Military History, Vol.82, No 1, January 2018

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