Colin Kidd
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Professor Colin Craig Kidd MA, D.Phil, F.R.Hist.S, F.S.A.Scot, FRSE[1] , is a historian specialising in American and Scottish history. He is the current Chair of Modern History and Deputy Head of Department, at the School of Historical Studies, University of Glasgow.[2]
Professor Kidd is holder of the prestigious British Petroleum Prize Lectureship in the Humanities[3] and currently teaches in the department's division of Scottish History. He has held this position since 2003,[4] and previous to which, held the post of Reader in the same department. He is a fellow of All Souls College Oxford (one of the highest academic honours), and a regular contributor to the London Review of Books,[5] where he commentates on topics such as current affairs, economics and politics, as well as reviewing literary works. Kidd says he chose to become a historian after being inspired by the 18th century literature of Sterne, and thus went on to gain his D.Phil from the University of Oxford.[6]
His own literary works include: "Subverting Scotland's Past: Scottish Whig Historians and the Creation of an Anglo-British Identity 1689-1830" (first published 1993); "British Identities Before Nationalism: Ethnicity and Nationhood in the Atlantic World, 1600-1800" (1999) and "The Forging of Races: Race and Scripture in the Protestant Atlantic World, 1600-2000" (2006). All of these are published by Cambridge University Press. [7]
