Katie Louise McCullough
PhD Candidate – History – University of Guelph
M.A. – History University of Guelph 2009
B.A. – History University of Victoria 2007
kmccullo@uoguelph.ca
Through the supervision of Dr. Graeme Morton at the University Of Guelph Department Of History and the Centre for Scottish Studies, my PhD project explores the construction of British identity through the investigation of the cultural endeavours and charity work of the Highland Society of London in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Through the promotion of Gaelic language, literature and culture, as well as funding Highland games, Highland schools, and providing for Highlanders in need, we find a Highland Scottish identity that attempted to rehabilitate and promote Highland culture and identity within a broader framework at a time when many British elites were both adopting an Anglo-British identity and seeking to eradicate Gaelic culture. The broader intellectual trends of my work incorporate British intellectual constructions of the Highlander as ‘other’ through comparisons with indigenous peoples the British encountered around the globe. Therefore I chose to include Race and Imperialism as well as Indigenous history as my two minor PhD fields under the supervision of Dr. James W. St.G. Walker and Dr. Ken Coates, both of Waterloo University.
Publications:
“‘For the Good and Glory of the Whole’: The Highland Society of London and the Formation of Scoto-British Identity, 1778-1822.” In The Shaping of Scottish Identities: Family, Nation, and the Worlds Beyond, eds. Jodi Campbell, Elizabeth Ewen, Heather Parker. Guelph Ont.: Centre for Scottish Studies at the University of Guelph, 2011.