Curriculum Vitae Dr. Scott A. McLean Associate Professor, Queen s BISC ADDRESS Garden Cottage, Queen s BISC, Herstmonceux Castle, Hailsham, East Sussex Phone: 011-44-1323-834444 e-mail: s_mclean@bisc.queensu.ac.uk EDUCATION Ph.D Modern British History. University of Guelph 1993-1998 Major Field: Scotland 18 th -19 th ; Minor Fields: Medieval Britain 400-1200, Colonial Latin America. MA Medieval Celtic History. University of Guelph 1988-1990 BA.(Honours)(Deans List).University of Guelph 1984-1988 TEACHING EXPERIENCE Lecturer, Queen s BISC Herstmonceux Castle, East Sussex, England 1999-present Courses: CLST 129: Introduction to Archaeology Hist 332: Medieval Britain (History/Archaeology) CLST 206: Roman Britain (History/Archaeology) Hist 242: The Norman World INTS 301: The Persistence of the Medieval INTS 303 The Global Village Case Studies of South -East England: Herstmonceux Castle INTS 300 Kings, Castles, and the Concept of Chivalry in Western Culture Hist 287: Early Modern England Hist 290 Ireland from the Early Christian era to 1848 Hist 251 Feudal Society in England Hist 363 The British Isles in the 20 th Century Hist 361 War and Peace in 20 th Century Culture Hist 360 War and Peace in 20 th Century Culture Hist 125 The Emergence of Modern Europe INTS 303 The Global Village Case Studies of South-East England: Canada and Sussex INTS 312 World War Two and British Cultural Life Hist 289 England Since 1851 INTS 302 Seminar in Modern European Studies: Print and Print Culture in Modern Europe. Hist 241: Kings, Castles and the Concept of Chivalry Hist 291 Ireland from 1848 to the Present IDIS 305 British Studies Hist 352 The British Isles: 19 th and 20 th C.
Lecturer, University of Guelph 1996-2000 Courses Hist 2000 The British Isles, 1066 to 1603 49-303 Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1066 49-353 Celtic Britain and Ireland 1603 to the Present. 49-200 The British Isles 1066-1603 49-211 The Colonial Americas Lecturer, Crieffhills Community (Elderhostel) 1991-2003. Courses: The Anglicisation of the Highlands Viking Age Britain The Scots Emigrant Experience Victorian Scotland: A Society in Transition Celtic Religion from Prehistory to A.D. 800 The Celts The Circle Builders: Neolithic Britain. Lecturer, University of Toronto Fall 1993 Continuing Education Program Course: Viking Age Britain. Teaching Assistant, University of Guelph Courses: Europe In The Age of Expansion (twice), Medieval Britain, Colonial Americas (four times). Medieval Europe. Film and History TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS British Archaeology Medieval and Early Modern Britain Local History and the History of Herstmonceux Castle World War II/British Perceptions of Canada During WWII Books PUBLICATIONS Guest Editor (With Nick Baxter-Moore)Special Edition Canada Abroad British Journal of Canadian Studies. 2014. With Nancy Leveque, Researching Your Ancestors in Simcoe County: A Study in Migratory Patterns and Family History. Simcoe County Genealogical Society, 2012. With Michael Vance, William Wye Smith: The Recollections of a Nineteenth Century Scottish Canadian. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, 2008. From Lochnaw to Manitoulin: A Highland Soldiers Tour Through Upper Canada. Toronto: Natural Heritage Books, January 2000. (Editor) Scottish Tradition. The Journal of the Canadian Association for Scottish Studies. 1991-1998 (Eight volumes).
Refereed Articles Cleansing the Hawker s Basket: Popular Literature and the Cheap Periodical Press in Scotland, Studies in Scottish Literature. University of South Carolina, 2002. With R. Andrew McDonald. Somerled of Argyll: A New Look at an Old Problem, Scottish Historical Review. Vol.LXXI. No. 191/2. April, October, 1992. As They Lived It: Peasant Life as Portrayed in the Bethune s, Tales of the Scottish Peasantry, Studies in Scottish Literature. Volume XXV. University of South Carolina, 1991. With R. Andrew McDonald, In Search of Somerled, King of Argyll and the Isles, Scottish Tradition. Volume XVI. University of Guelph, 1990/91. Other Publications An Officer and a Gentleman?: Professionalization and the 93 rd Highlanders in Canada, 1838-1848, Scottish Tradition. University of Guelph. Fall 2001. The Battle of the Windmill Revisited, Canadian Military History. Volume 9, Number 4, (Autumn 2000) Cnut, Reader s Guide to British History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003. Columba, Reader s Guide to British History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003. The Battle of Stamford Bridge, Reader s Guide to British History. London: Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, 2003 Scottish Module, in True North Arrivals, II. A C.D. Rom on emigration to Canada. McGraw-Hill Ryerson. September, 1996. A Word From Scotland s Ignorant and Unwashed Many, The Tales of Alexander and John Bethune, The Scottish Book Collector. Vol. 3 No.11 June-July 1993. The Historical Significance of Charles Gordon s, Record of the Services of the 93rd (or Sutherland) Highland Regiment of Foot. Collection Update. No.13. University of Guelph. 1990. Women, War and Society: The Celtic and Norse Goddesses of War, Newsletter of the Canadian Celtic Arts Association. Vol.3, No.1. February 3, 1990. Books Reviewed Parish Life in Eighteenth-Century Scotland, Maisie Steven. In Scottish Tradition. Vol. XXI. (1996).
The Chambered Cairns of Sutherland, A.S. Henshall and J.N.G. Ritchie. In Scottish Tradition. Vol. XXI. (1996). A Man of Letters, Edited by C.H. Layman. In Scottish Tradition. Volume XVIII (1993). Viking Scotland, Anna Ritchie. In Scottish Tradition. Volume XIX. (1994). The Lochaber Emigrants to Glengarry, Ian Fleming. In Scottish Tradition. Volume XX. (1995). Other Works With Sue Bazely, Archaeological Assessment, Herstmonceux Castle Beech Tree Field. Report prepared for the Herstmonceux Castle Estate, Bader International Study Centre and Sussex Archaeological Unit. April 2014 With Sue Bazely, Archaeological Assessment Herstmonceux Castle: Mota Piece. Report Prepared for the Herstmonceux Castle Estate, Bader International Study Centre and Sussex Archaeological Centre. June 2013. Course Manual for the distance education course 49-303 Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1066. Dept. Of History, University of Guelph. Winter, 1996. Course manual for the distance education course The Scots Emigrant Experience. Produced for the Canadian Association for Scottish Studies. Winter, 1996. Works in Progress Book length research project on a collection of letters from an English Missionary in China. A book length research project: I Think They are Quite Unbeatable : British Perceptions of Canada and the Canadian Soldier 1939-1942 SCHOLARLY PAPERS PRESENTED Reconstructing the Archaeology of the Herstmonceux Castle Estate Presented to the Nova Scotia Archaeological Society, St. Mary s University, Halifax, October 30 th, 2013. William Wye Smith, Pioneer Poetry and Canadian Identity in 19 th Century Upper Canada Bridgewater University, Bridgewater, Massachusetts. October 29 th, 2013. Plenary Speaker, Sites, Sources, and Assessment in an Experiential Learning Environment Queen s University Teaching and Learning Services Teaching Development Day Conference. Queen s University, September 4 th 2013.
If There Exist Finer Specimens of Hardy Athletic Manhood, I Should Like Somebody to Produce Them : Sport, Masculinity and the British Image of the Canadian Soldier, 1939-1942, Presented at, Canada Abroad. Queen s Bader International Study Centre, Herstmonceux Castle, July 30 th, 2013 I Think They Are Quite Unbeatable : The Canadian Army in Sussex, 1939-1945, Presented to the Department of History, St. Mary s University, Halifax Nova Scotia. October 2012. The Archaeology of the Herstmonceux Castle Estate Presented to the Archaeology 101 Class, St. Mary s University, Halifax Nova Scotia, October 2011. With Peter Lowe, From the Battle of Hastings to the Battl;e of Britain: Location, History and Literary Culture Conference on International Undergraduate Education. Queen s BISC. July 2009. Robert Chambers and Vestiges of the Natural History of Creation at the geology conference Scots on the Rocks. University of Guelph. 1997 Reforming the Lower-Class Family: Cheap Literature and the Discourse of Moral Reform in Early Nineteenth Century Scotland, presented at The Guelph, Laurier, Waterloo History Conference. Wilfrid Laurier University. October 26, 1996. The Image of the Native in the Scottish Periodical Press, Presented at Scots and Aboriginal Culture. University of Guelph. March 23, 1996. Officers and Gentlemen: Professionalization and the 93rd Highlanders in Canada, 1838-1848, The Highland Regiments: At Home and Abroad. University of Guelph. Sept. 24, 1995. The Cheap Literature Movement and Moral Reform in Scotland, 1790-1815, Presented at the Graduate Student Colloquium in Social and Economic History. University of Guelph. May 5th, 1995. Cleansing the Hawkers Basket: Cheap Literature and the Moral Reform of Popular Literature, Presented at the University of Glasgow Postgraduate School of Scottish Studies Seminar Series. University of Glasgow. November 3rd, 1994. The 93rd Highlanders and the Myth of the Scottish Soldier. Presented at Scots Abroad. University of Guelph. May 1st, 1993. The Popularization of Popular Culture in Scotland, 1800-1845, Presented at the Scottish Studies Seminar Series, University of Guelph, November 29th, 1991.
The Education of Alexander Bethune: One of Scotland s Ignorant and Unwashed Many, Presented at the Learneds, Queen s University, June 8th, 1991. The Reigns of William I and the Two Alexanders, Presented at The Scottish Experience, University of Guelph, May 4th, 1991. With R. Andrew McDonald, In Search of Somerled, King of Argyll, Presented at Scottish Studies Conference, University of Guelph, October 13, 1990. Peasants and Landlords: Agricultural Change and Social Comment In The Bethune's, Tales of The Scottish Peasantry, Presented at Guelph-Laurier-Waterloo History Conference, University of Waterloo, January 1990. Awards With Steven Bednarski, Awarded a SSHRC Partnership Development Grant for The Medieval Landscape at Herstmonmceux Project. Awarded the full amount of $200,000. (2014-2017) Ted Cowan Scholarship (1997) Scottish Studies Foundation Bursary (1996) D.H. Brodie Award (1994) Graduate Supervision Assisted with the supervision of the MA Research of Mr. Zach MacDonald, University of Waterloo, 2013. Assisted with the MA Research of Mr. Andrew Moore, entitled, Poaching, Patronage, and Punishment: Thomas Fiennes, and the Clash of Court Politics and Local Economy in the Reign of Henry VIII University of Waterloo, 2013. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Conference Organiser, Canada and the Great War, to be held at Queen s BISC, Herstmonceux Castle, April 2015. Interviewed by BBC South-East for a piece on Col. Claude Lowther and WWI. Aired June 3 rd, 2014 Director, BISC Field School in British Archaeology (2011- Present). Patron, Project 16, Pevensey Church Trust. Pevensey.
Conference Organizer, Canada Abroad. An International Conference held at Queen s BISC, July 29 th -August 1 st, 2013. Founder and Member of the Herstmonceux Castle Archaeological Group.(2007-2011). BBC Radio Interview on the History of Herstmonceux Castle, Winter 2011. Founder and co-ordinator of the office of Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph. (1996-1998) Actively participated in the Scottish Studies Foundation, aiding in their efforts to raise funds for a Chair in Scottish Studies at Guelph. Designed the first series of Open Learning courses offered by the Department of History at the University of Guelph. Have given dozens of lectures on a wide range of historical subjects to community groups and genealogical societies in Toronto and elsewhere in Ontario 1998-2010. Guest Editor of The journal Scottish Tradition 2001. Co-developed a distance education course, The Scots Diaspora and Migration for the Dept. of History, University of Guelph. (Spring 1999). General Editor of Scottish Tradition, the Journal of the Canadian Association for Scottish Studies. University of Guelph, 1991 to 1998. Conference Organiser, Scottish Witchcraft, Punishment and Popular Culture, University of Guelph. October 24, 1998. Co-organiser, Scotia and Nova Scotia, Saint Mary s University. Halifax, Nova Scotia. Sept. 26-29, 1996. Designed a multi-media distance education course, 49-303 Celtic Britain and Ireland to 1066, for the Dept. Of History, University of Guelph. (Winter 1996) Designed a non-credit distance education course The Scots Emigrant Experience for the Canadian Association for Scottish Studies and IES Education Services. (Winter 1996). Conference organiser, The Highland Regiments: At Home and Abroad. University of Guelph. Sept. 23/24, 1995. Chairman/Organizer History Graduate Seminar Series, University of Guelph. September 1989 to April 1990.